Poetry & fiction that make new the spirit of literature
In your psyche More wisdom be Then the bust Of Pallas In your soul More honesty Than the prophets, In their Ivory Palace And your heart, The beauty that it holds The realm in which It reside Be that cherub’s smile In paradise It’s rhythm, The ode to joy That ushered in The universe That... Continue Reading →
To get at The beautiful To grasp it As it slips Through your hands Like a fine sand The further You pursue The further She will run And so beauty Be like a woman? Forever the opposite Of what she appears? Her meaning, In contrary To what she says? And is beauty, truth? Then is... Continue Reading →
I worship you Every bone Every tendon And joint That grounds Your structure And your Heavenly form That floats above The curve of Your bosom Is the Progenitor Of my existence My fountain in A desert land Your hair is Like a fine stroke Of calligraphy Flowing and black And most of all Beautiful Like... Continue Reading →
So deep the Rhine who’s drunk off blood How light the Lethe whose past is blind So heavy, men who recollect the Flood How shallow be the free and spotless mind How shallow be the free How shackled be the kind How monstrous be the men Unbound who do not bind What weight do hold... Continue Reading →
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Born of Plenty and of Poor Of gods and of man A longing for the intercourse Of all things different The daimon Eros Shifts from boy to boy Discovering the truth Of transience Bored of its Entropy Eros longs for the Eternal Becoming pregnant first with Laws, Cities, States and Empires As the dust collects... Continue Reading →
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