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virgo27
05-21-2010, 10:15 AM
The season of the dandelion has come and gone.
A weed, a parasite in a sea of grass,
Like a Grecian coin, that is looked upon for its rarity,
Behind the museum glass.

It has turned a beard of white,
Such as an absurd existence
Life cycle, so well established, life so short.
A kiss of air, releases the seeds onto the wind.

They are carried into the blackness of the universe
Dispersing upon the world,
As shooting stars,
The way our unified souls collect consciousness.

The museum’s antiquity serves as a memory.
The cowardly lion’s beard, bright as Apollo’s sunshine.
Drowned in and grayed by the rays of time
Return to the source of life, spreading throughout the meadow.

As the wind blows back her hair, the soulful flutes can be heard.
Observant eyes across the field
Watching as his youth’s embrace of her small waist.
Lamentation, soul’s rot!

Let hysteria set in,
Gyrate around the witch's brew, shake the rattle!
Allow the beast to rip free of this sinewy flesh
Gaping holes of flesh, and bone.

The devil has visited her in the night
His steel coldness engorging her
The pleasure of the insanity
The howl and moan of the arching trees.

We ride night into the forest and climb the trees
And rip the heads off the blue birds and let there blood stain our teeth
Red’s delight, chewed beatless muscle.
Where are you now beast man?

Of the same life time, generation, and season
Destiny’s trick, the juvenile books of taboo’s learning!
One sided joke, to torture the slow of heart
An endless ringing in the ear.

You are the daylily, for I deem your season only that long.
It will pass too, but I will be gone,
My love.

Your long stem, bending in the breeze.
My seeds land on you and around you to choke you out.
There is no proximity close enough to you
Except death, I will flatter not.

I will haunt the woodlands
Howling for my beast man.
You are my addiction, my drug of choice.
In sobriety’s insanity, I echo my desire for freedom
From you.

Sin, laugh not!
For my savior weeps for my broken state.
When I have everything.

PrinceMyshkin
05-21-2010, 02:28 PM
An astonishing poem! Not all that easy to follow (at least, for me) but the conviction and the inventiveness just swept me along.

Bar22do
05-21-2010, 03:09 PM
Hmm, interesting! I certainly have to re-read it. But about chastity it is not
("Allow the beast to rip free of this sinewy flesh
Gaping holes of flesh, and bone"). Perhaps some song of songs' dark side...
Theme, images and linguistic components could make many poems. Considering the riches of this, I would do without "the shooting stars" and "a kiss of air"... apart from which - daring and certainly worthwhile rereading a poem... Thanks Virgo, best regards - Bar

MorpheusSandman
05-21-2010, 11:53 PM
Wow, this is an incredible work. Definitely one that requires several readings. It seems to me that the opening four stanzas serve to symbolically foreshadow and reinforce the rest of the piece. As I read it over I'm really bowled over by the level of structural virtuosity: how the image of the wind blowing the dandelion seeds transitions into the wind blowing her hair, how the image of entering into the origin of non-existence echoes the oncoming madness. Then it seems to transition from her, to we, but then to more symbolic imagery; this time more abstract and fragmented - echoing the madness? Nonetheless, this is an amazingly rich piece. One I feel I could return to several times and unlock a bit more of its secrets each time. Really excellent (and welcome to the boards).

Alexander III
05-22-2010, 07:06 AM
As has been said this is a very rich piece, were you find a new sensation upon each new reading. A incredibly impressive first post, welcome to the forums :)

qimissung
05-22-2010, 12:07 PM
I am not "Donne" with this; I always love a little Milton in the morning. Beautiful and awesome.

libernaut
05-15-2011, 04:02 PM
really good. i like the part about apollo's sunshine

virgo27
05-18-2011, 08:11 AM
That is a good part. Thanks for digging this up for reading.