I.
"Come forth, O children,
under the stars,
and take your fill of love!"
Perhaps in the confessions of bitter fools
slumbers some sorts and stable truth,
in their remains of ash and hatred
waits their penchant the world
will never see as such a Strength.
II.
While in disorder we despair,
while in prediction we are precise,
yet in circumvention we may befriend
Augustine and his prolific gesture:
"Love, and do what thou wilt."
But bound into nihilism
we fall through the Chasm
alone, and afraid more
for the journey itself
than ends, yet we repent,
we regret all ending, all failings
of fortune and hopeful endeavors.
III.
"Sing the rapturous love-song unto me!
Burn to me perfumes! Wear to me jewels!
Drink to me, for I love you! I love you!"
Recite the words. Speak the sense
of masters and men
who once were within the right
to preach as saints and prophets.
In their bindings of what
could only be imprisoned for once
and always be the beckoned callings
and mistaken and immoral rapture
of the slip of a tongue from madmen.
More over complex an aphrodisiac,
yet a simple concept, always,
but you practice abstinence
and beneath futility your own ruin.
IV.
"I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset;
I am the naked brilliance
of the voluptuous night-sky."
Within the seventh came lasting night,
and in the sixth came Babalon,
within the fifth came the fires of Plato,
and in the fourth came Passion's plague,
within the third came the altruistic affair,
and in the second came the purest Roman spring.
But found upon the first was Un-forgiveness,
and a pleading to great Geanian, replying:
"I will give you a war-engine."
V.
So now with a burnt etching
gilding my own left hand,
I restrict my moral codes of self,
a nature Divine in itself
to prevent the loss of an idolized pride
through prized wrath and envy.
VI.
To what grief may I slip into
for all wrought by my deeds?
On all fours as beast and lesser a man
I surely would take my place,
in the Bower of Bliss
as the Union of Opposites,
the well intended and opportune
for the forgotten and Forgiven:
“Love is the law,” always,
“love under will.”
Blasphemy on the first, by
The Devoted, Enlightened!
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wow this is so write and so great six golden keys the length didnt kept me from reading i read it in fact twice wonderful content and spiritual bliss
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This for me would benefit from a severe cutting.
It reads to me more of a lecture / sermon given from the pulpit.
If this is indeed what goes on on church nowadays no wonder so many young ones are leaving.
Then again perhaps i miss the pint of the poem.
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I was a little lost as well... but I do believe that your poem is very powerful and important to you so that's what's important.
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not sure I understood all of it but.. I believe this is a lesson in forgiveness and learning to love your self?
nonetheless.. I'd say you are certainly very talented with words and your use of them!!
SilverButterfly
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I was just re-reading this, it's a favorite of mine. I thought I'd leave you a comment telling you that I read your work often, and I will always love how much it opens my mind to new perspectives.
-Kaitlyn
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Hood-Wink!
Good one,
my favorite part was:
“Love is the law,” always,
“love under will.”
Blasphemy on the first, by
The Devoted, Enlightened!
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Wow.. I'm not too sure what I'm going to say to this. It's a wonderful piece, and I enjoyed wrapping my mind around the words, is this intended to mean that salvation is in love? Or maybe something else, I think I might not have gotten the full grasp of this, but I still can appreciate the effort and thought in it.
Kaitlyn
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"is this intended to mean that salvation is in love?"
I'd give you one of my gold trophies right now if I could, Kaitlyn. Not only are you the first to comment on one of my personal favorites, I never really expected anyone to get this, and you nailed it. Actually, I can't remember a single poem you didn't get at least the basic idea behind.
Without going into too much detail, I. - IV. are about slowly learning this concept, love through salvation; V. is about falling into anger and hate; and VI. is about realizing that mistake, and finally accepting love inside. There's an irony to where I drew the quotes from, and I'll tell you if you want to know. You have more of an open mind than most...lol
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I'm very curious to know where you found the quotes, I have a feeling you got them from a very unexpected place. And thanks for the compliments, there too kind.
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The quotes are taken from Aleister Crowley's book 'The Book of the Law' that "contains three chapters, each of which was written down in one hour, beginning at noon, on April 8, April 9, and April 10. Crowley claims that the author was an entity named Aiwass, whom he later referred to as his personal Holy Guardian Angel (or "Secret Self")."
The complete book (kind of short, actually):
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Liber_AL_vel_Legis
Take from that what you will. Overall, it's quite bizarre, and probably full of it, but there's some incredible parts to it as well. Though I think he was completely nuts, he was on to something. This book has inspired quite a few of my poems in the past, one being "The Old Laws" and another I have yet to post. So I think that will be the next one that I put on here.
Just in case you're not sure who Crowley was:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleister_Crowley
You've probably at least heard the infamous Ozzy song though.
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