Zeus On Trial

September 26, 2008 at 6:13 pm | Posted in poetry, writing | 23 Comments
Tags: poetry, soraya, switch, writing, Zeus

Erotica is nice, artdeco to decorate the house, resplendent decadent why not but comes a time when every creature corporeal just wants to fuck, says the Japanese Pornographer stop dancing, turn around bend over now,
She throws the script on the floor by the bed. I thought you said you were a writer exploring issues of consent, she says and hangs up the phone. Now come here sweet soraya i have a gift for you in whispers,

the sprite delights in twists and turns
provides respite from funerary urns
but in the end there was just one
and now it’s time to have some fun,
lets play a game just you and me
we’ll be pirates lost at sea
then when we’re saved and reach the shore
turn around you’ll be me and i’ll be yours,

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Ha! I like the way she doesn’t immediately consent to his demand but makes him work that incey bit harder. Brilliant contrasts and rhymeplay, play, play.

Comment by Mary P— September 26, 2008 #
I love ‘i have a gift for you in whispers’…that is beautiful and sensory

Comment by Queen of the Universe— September 27, 2008 #
SHWING!

Comment by ozymandiaz— September 27, 2008 #
and even then with such a common, similar innate want
we seldom seek to see why such pleasures only our nights haunt
or even why the lack of them can our spirit daunt

Comment by Sumedh— September 27, 2008 #
Ummm… I’m sitting in the public library reading this entry and besides the fact that it was VERY SEXY ; ), I also think I am in great like with the one who writes about it so amazingly!!!

Comment by psychobillygirl— September 27, 2008 #
pungent as Seka’s bathwater…awfully fond of this…

Comment by Chico Mahalo— September 27, 2008 #
magical great writing gingatao way cool energy fieldtrip

Comment by tipota— September 27, 2008 #
ahh yes a gift for you in whispers in sooo lovely (both the getting and the gifting and the reading of course which generates thoughts of the giving and the gifting)

love the connection between these pirates and the previous–and the unexpected in the line “you be me and i’ll be yours”

sail on!

Comment by artpredator— September 27, 2008 #
I love this:

we’ll be pirates lost at sea
then when we’re saved and reach the shore
turn around you’ll be me and i’ll be yours,

Comment by amethystos— September 27, 2008 #
Thanks everybody. Just a note for me here, “provides respite from funerary urns
but in the end there was just one”
connects the pirates to the Ode on A Funerary Urn poems where everyone fell in love and noone realised she was dead. Here you’ve done it again, hidden this fact so deep in the work that people don’t see it. Why are you doing this?

Comment by Paul— September 28, 2008 #
Well it has something to do with the original intention which was to connect these two thoughts. That love is the only available redemption and that time is not linear. By making a connecticon that looked like this,
each moment eternal.
The problem was in creating a surplus, that is in showing that there is not necessarily perfect balance between the positive and negative forces. Why is it not possible that there can be excess of positive energy and some kind of spiritual evolution on a universal scale. Then you deviated through Nietsche, the idea of the superman as a necessity in the absence of God, not necessarily as a practical reality but as a kind of Jungian archtype to generate hope which is the opposite of death. Which sounds so funky it makes me think of a hand jive…

Comment by Paul— September 28, 2008 #
So you’re basically placing codas in some huge poetry opera,

Comment by Paul— September 28, 2008 #
Seven inch circle of black
Friday On My Mind
Classic sixties track
Protagonist needs to unwind.

I bought it the day of release
Vanda and Young were the best
Not as pretty as Dita von Teese
But of time their song stood the test.

Comment by Ann O'Dyne— September 28, 2008 #
amazing how you can do that and even then tell about it bigway truly exceptional

Comment by tipota— September 29, 2008 #
~bouncing into the room and throwing my arms open wide~ Where’s my GingaPaul? I needs a hug and a kiss and a dance around the room! oh, how i’ve missed dancing to your words! Squeee! – we’re playing pirates? Can i have the eyepatch, sword and Argggs? ~muwahhh!~

Comment by Lakota Phillips— September 29, 2008 #
whoa. i haz horns. o.O

Comment by Lakota Phillips— September 29, 2008 #
Have you tried haibun?

Comment by Mistlethrush— September 29, 2008 #
wow, i am impressed. i got some enjoyable deviance emerging from this, i especially the pirates thing and cheers to mrs. mary, she said my thoughts perfectly

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Intrigued by this ‘rhizoming’ of links embedded in the poems idea.
I enjoy the sonic effects in this.
Greatly enjoy your comments also.

A.Joy

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