Under the spell of #Woland – v2 #Bulgakov #MasterandMargarita

Under the spell of Woland, Satan,
Mephistopheles, the Devil,
gathered on the streets of Moscow,
by pleasure, power, insatiable lusts…
 
Compromised by his passions,
drawn into communion, dominion
with evil, with his carnal nature,
with the darkness of this world…
 
Swallowed by his baser instincts,
his perversions, the bile, the spasms,
that which drives him corrupted,
through his days, for all time…
 
Ruin awaits him, apostacy,
in the judgement coming for him,
drawn by the puppeteer, his master,
Woland, Satan, the Devil as one…
 
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Edited March 27, 2025
Under the spell of Woland – v2
 
See the novel, The Master and Margarita, by Bulgakov
and the play, “Faust”, by Goethe
March 27, 2025
Compromised
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/03/compromised.html
March 27, 2025
We have chosen the path of evil
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/03/we-have-chosen-path-of-evil.html
Edited March 26, 2025
We have become what we abhor – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/03/we-have-become-what-we-abhor-v3.html
Edited March 10, 2025
Betrayal – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/03/betrayal-v3.html
Edited March 6, 2025
There is no neutrality in genocide – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/03/there-is-no-neutrality-in-genocide-v2.html
Edited October 31, 2024
A Faustian Tragedy – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/10/a-faustian-tragedy-v2.html
after poem, “A Faustian Tragedy”,
This poem comes from the ironic titling by Shevchenko that his poem, “The Great Grave”, is “A Comedy”. The fate of these people, in aligning themselves or even acquiescing to the tyranny of Tsarist Russia, is a Faustian tragedy for themselves and for the country of Ukraine. It is a devil’s bargain as in Faust, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, so in keeping with the choices made by the trio of souls in Shevchenko’s poem. He mentions Goethe in his own writings.
September 24, 2024
He is an Anti-Christ, a Satan
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/09/he-is-ant-christ-satan.html
September 10, 2024
The stain of innocent blood – v5
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-stain-of-innocent-blood-v5.html
This poem is about the character Pontius Pilate in the novel, Master and Margarita,
by Mikhail Bulgakov, where Pilate is spending eternity, not in heaven or hell,
but trying to wash the innocent blood Jesus Christ from his hands.
This poem is transferring that same nightmarish judgment on Vladimir Putin
for the innocent blood of the people of Ukraine...
originally drafted April 1, 2022, 38 days into the full-scale invasion
 
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