Dirge of Orpheus

[westcoast]

Founder of the greek mysteries
Your alphabet duels with my pen
Spewing Jell-O over Apollo and Dionysus
Such intrinsic beauty is incomprehensible

I strum my lyre in a cascade
Upon your crystalline lyricism
Sappho snorts..
cinching the belt of her khakis
A little tooooo tight

Seldom has lack of compromise been
So miraculously evoked

Lodged on barren crags
The modern self
Sleeps entwined in hymns
Of duty and culture

Wingless ciphers
With bellies full of mundane pangs
Croak skyward Freudian abortions

With out revelation, all
Uncompromising in spirit or tone

But, I digress,

“A woman is something with smell”
And you have lost her scent
It is time to abandon the time machine
Or modernize the myth

Examine how the Expressionists revolted
Poke the heap of archaeological rubble
Buy a pack of gum, blow a bubble

Float the code from then to now

[constantine]

you have raised the bar westie.

[westcoast]

[mtmynd]

where have you been?

enjoyed. (really)

[westcoast]

thank u, mtmynd glad you enjoyed.

~westcoast

[mnaz]

"mundane pangs"...

Now there's a nice body blow.
Thank Apollo for reinvention, i guess.

[Totenkopf]

Dionysius, that mad panderer-minstrel, was rather overrated, especially compared to the cold Apollonian light (as Plato realized..............). Interesting images............

[stilltrucking]

“A woman is something with smell”

I wondered about that quote
So I googled it
Are you quoting yourself?

I damn sure lost the scent
And freud commited suicide after the last abortion
so I am on my own.
as I try to

Float the code from then to now

Beautiful poem
sorry about the spree
I hope it was not a distruption

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[westcoast]

hi jt yes, i wrote this poem originally a few years back to celebrate another poet.

the line about a woman and her smell was based upon, if i remember right, musings i had about the movie "The Scent of a Woman"

i like it when you comment as you do. it always inspires me, so don't stop

cheers,
westie

[Terri]

truck (is that the short way to say it?) is right, the woman "quote" is good. SO many good lines here; I liked the belt-cinching, and something about "Seldom has lack of compromise been
So miraculously evoked" makes me laugh. I agree w/ Dino about this one, "raised the bar".

[Lightning Rod]

nice westie,

and I'm with everybody else on the
“A woman is something with smell”
line caught my eye immediately
did you put that in quotes because it was actually from the movie?

(my comment on greek mythology in poetry doesn't apply here...haha)

[constantine]

ouch!

[westcoast]

thanks y'all

the line is in quotes so i can only assume, being scrupulous as i am about such matters, that it is a line from the movie. maybe the old man talking??

great zeus LR! what trouble(s) have you stirred now

~westie

[stilltrucking]

I bet you a dollar to a donut it is not from the movie.
I think it is from you
I wondered why you put it in quotes
I only got one google hit for it
and it was your poem

That movie left me misty eyed
That was a bad old man.

It was stunning poem
thank you

[stilltrucking]

No wait
I just found this

A woman is something with smell.
Inexpressible. Pass away. Bloom, reseda.
The south is in there, shepherd and sea.

From here

Gottfried Benn's Orpheus' Death
Hugh Ridley
University College
Dublin
http://www.ucd.ie/cai/classics-ireland/ ... ley96.html