2 weeks ago I published a poem that I had written on around September 13th, a poem that came to me mysteriously, and which I characterized as a prophecy.  I did not understand it’s meaning.  It ended on the note that the subtle crisis in September would “…ring for a thousand years.”

Today I have the answer.  Quoting from the Financial Times from today,” …Nor could watchdogs have done much to prevent the turmoil when many of the incriminated securities were triple A rated and banks met all the regulatory yardsticks. Criticism of Wall Street and its regulators for failing to forecast the 1,000-year flood is largely misplaced.”

The event referenced to in the poem was the financial meltdown that is now affecting the banks all over the world.  This crisis in credit is having effects that are unprecedented in our lives, and will continue to for a long time to come.  Banks are calving into the ocean like Greenland glaciers and melting away, absorbed by bigger banks or failing outright.

For me the significance of the event corresponding to the poem’s prediction weeks before the occurrence gives me pause.  Poems have always come to me in a channeled fashion.  I don’t write, but rather transcribe.

Ironically, I just saw Bill Maher’s Religulous, a very interesting film on religious superstition and its powerful position even today in the face of science.  I agree with much of his critique, though of course I believe in the transcendental world.  But I don’t know how I would explain to him the poem and its prediction, at first not understood by me any more than anyone else.

I want to continue to write poetry, and if there is anything in the nature of a prophetic sense to it, I will publish it here in this blog.  I do not pretend to understand how this happens, but that would be true of a lot of things in nature and life.  To those of you who have been following this blog, I have always supported the transcendent, but it is a little different to be channeling it.

Meanwhile, the political/economic landscape of America and the world continues to transform.  Suddenly the Bush administration is responsible for nationalizing banks.  Who’da thunk it?