Nietzsche's sores Dylan's pores

[revolutionrabbit]

Dylan's great poem, the masters of war
maybe the greatest, and the times they are
a strange, oh, prophet of "Jesus would never
forgive what you do"

poets, the masters of masks
making them and wearing
Nietzsche said that, he also

Dylan, "I just want you to know,
I can see through your masks"

Thus Spake the name of the one
whose main philosophy, prophecy, mystical
was to invoke "truth" in what you say
Zoroaster, spoken faster
that Ursprach, spake, spat, spark

Thus the philosopher Nietzsche invoked
Zarathustra, consciously knew it or not
the language of truth, and the truth of
language as far as it has been discovered
or it has been misplaced or erased by history
the washes of and wastes of lands, in the rages
of rags and veils of the faces of nations
even as his sores spoke too

so Dylan's pores broke a lyric and breathed
through the disaster and rang them bells
all them hell's bells that cried " I'm a poet
and I know it" T.S. Eliot said that, or Ezra

pound on them keys
bang on them Arabian drums
strum that folk guitar
hammer that philosophy
sing that poetry
tell that truth
truth that tell
spake, spat, spark!

[dadio]

I am impressed with your poem. Not just because it mentions three of my heroes, but for the structure and theme of the whole thing.

[revolutionrabbit]

I'm not a fan of T.S. Eliot
and I hardly ever read Ezra Pound
But I sure have read a lot of Nietzsche
and still bounce off of his words
as he had a lot to say about poetry too
Dylan was just coming through, too
my education such as it was or wasn't
I began reading Rimbaud and Baudelaire
never studied poetry formally, so
was not properly introduced to T.S. Eliot
I remember this English lady that said
a person that wants to write poetry
should learn meter first, all proper
however I ask, is language served
better by formalizing it, or by using
it like Andre Breton said, make surrealist
use of it.However that goes, some swear
by T.S. Eliot, others love Ezra Pound
I like Dylan Thomas, but I am a French
poet lover at heart, and Lorca too