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Stretching the Eternal

Stretching the Eternal “the soul’s survival and residual divinity” ~ Michael Schmidt, The First Poets, 23 The followers of Orpheus, if not The man himself, desired a lengthening Of all they thought was mortal, what they thought Could be like deities, the strengthening...

Perfection, Life, Death

Perfection, Life, Death https://uk.video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=A0WTTch6DblZKRMAeBWe3olQ?p=nureyev%20jete&fr=yhs-iry- fullyhosted_003&fr2=p%3As%2Cv%3Ai%2Cm%3Apivot&hsimp=yhs-...

Torturers: Eurydice, Women, God, or Boys, Finally

Torturers: Eurydice, Women, God, or Boys, Finally That Orpheus had several deaths implies He did not die. Myths tried to kill him. Bad, They failed. The tellings of his deaths are lies. He drove, one story goes, the Maenads mad. Another said that jealous women tore...

Simplicity and Complications

Simplicity and Complications The Virgin comes first, then an angel from On high, a rainbow bolt from heaven. He Speaks holiness so deep she must succumb. Already it has moved from simple. She Might think that she could hide in manger scene Alone, but no, the donkey,...

The Eternal Cry of Women about Men and Love

The Eternal Cry of Women about Men and Love “Your thoughtlessness in love, Orpheus, has wrecked us both.”  ~ Virgil, in Robert Graves, The Greek Myths, p. 93 They never know, these men, not even when They get the clearest orders.  Even gods Are useless.  Pluto gives...

Primordial Rosaries under Electron Microscopes

Primordial Rosaries under Electron Microscopes   Dedicated to Watson and Crick When focused down enough, the everyday Becomes transcendent.  Microscopes can see Complexities so small that they will say With tiny shouts and psalms, “Come, come, and flee Away from your...

 Eurydice behind Orpheus

 Eurydice behind Orpheus Do spirits dress in spirit clothes and shoes? Do spirit sandals make a sound when on The road in night or are they too diffuse Of spirit atoms?  Spirits walk in dawn When desperate.  Pale clothes do not make sound, No swishing in the sunrise. ...

Kunala and Queen Tishyarakshita

Kunala and Queen Tishyarakshita His eyes were like the colors of exotic Birds, brighter than the liquid colors of Their irises, becoming hypnotic. Kaleidoscopic then became the love In Tishyarakshita for this prince Of solitude.  She had to have him in Her bed.  The...