A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947)
Ware, nor of good nor ill, what aim hath act?
Without its climax, death, what savour hath
Life? an impeccable machine, exact
He paces an inane and pointless path
To glut brute appetites, his sole content
How tedious were he fit to comprehend
Himself! More, this our noble element
Of fire in nature, love in spirit, unkenned
Life hath no spring, no axle, and no end.
His body a bloody-ruby radiant
With noble passion, sun-souled Lucifer
Swept through the dawn colossal, swift aslant
On Eden’s imbecile perimeter.
He blessed nonentity with every curse
And spiced with sorrow the dull soul of sense,
Breathed life into the sterile universe,
With Love and Knowledge drove out innocence
The Key of Joy is disobedience.
A few random poems:
- The Gardener XXVIII: Your Questioning Eyes by Rabindranath Tagore
- Lines Written On Visiting The Chateaux On The Loire poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня о двух красивых автомобилях
- Николай Карамзин – Делиины слова
- Hope, Like The Short-lived Ray That Gleams Awhile by William Cowper
- Валерий Брюсов – Я жизнью пьян. Напиток жгучий
- Омар Хайям – Мы источник веселья, и скорби рудник
- Владимир Маяковский – Октябрьские частушки
- Which way does the wind blow? by Thomas J Camp
- Иида Дакоцу – Сквозь зимнюю мглу
- Idylls of the King: The Last Tournament (excerpt) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- A child said, What is the grass by Walt Whitman
- Eclogue:–The Best Man In The Vield by William Barnes
- Sonnet X
- Grand Slam Night poem – A. D. Winans poems | Poetry Monster
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- Sacrifice And Love
- Rule I By Eric Mottram Stop Writing Literature You Garrulous Indian
- Poetry And Politics
- Poem Stories
- Plato
- Peace Universal Good
- Paralipomemnon
- Our Refuge
- One Sweet White Light
- New Land
- Motionless Body
- Mother
- Minimalism And The Elm Choka
- Mark
- Love Flower
- Love
- Lord God Have Mercy On Me
- Libation
- Least In A List
- Interpret The Light
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