Tag: solar
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Back Again
Wroth to these puffins, beaking in the beakless place Breaking into the breakless place, the face That smiles between ages, the sages haste To his fabled grace, his blood the greatest grape His sap the wine of Spring, his lap the lamb’s nape His lance the rape and ruin of complacent evil Wicked cities will…
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Mount of Olives
Atop Mount Scopus Looking down at Jerusalem In bygone days them Barred entry took to that redoubt Treating themselves to a painful glimpse Entreating themselves, tears well in wince Atop Mount Scopus. Close indeed to moon in Scorpio Mount of Olives Host of cedar Hunting ground of Demeter A clasped hand bars the door The…
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Gold’s Gold
Isle of Jura, house of rabbits Fortune in the firegrate, wind displaced This place solemn and solitary Far on the fringes, in thrall of idolatry My eyes like Durer’s beholding Montezuma’s boons and treasures Beaten gold inches thick, the sun’s shape Lord of the world, known to the wordless and the wealthless Last to finish…
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Protofaith
The first religion was a solar affair Mounds and light and grain and blood and sperm What will the last religion be? Beyond contemporary scientism The unutterable fusions Return of mediaeval thought Harmonies of humor, planetary music, sequences of linked spheres Philosophy, crafts and mystical logic The new knowledge will give birth to the first…