Phallus

This was the gods’ god,

The leashed divinity,

Divine divining rod

And Me within the me.

By mindlight tower and tree

Its shadow on the ground

Throw, and in darkness she

Whose weapon is her wound

Fends off the knife, the sword,

The Tiger and the Snake;

It stalks the virgin’s bed

And bites her wide awake.

Her Bab-el-Mandeb waits

Her Red Sea gate of tears:

The blood-sponge god dilates,

His rigid pomp appears;

Sets in the toothless mouth

A tongue of prophecy.

It speaks in naked Truth

Indifference for me

Love, a romantic slime

That lubricates his way

Against the stream of Time.

And though I win the day

His garrisons deep down

Ignore my victory,

Abandon this doomed town,

Crawl through a sewer and flee.

A certain triumph, of course,

Bribes me with brief joy:

Stiffly my Wooden Horse

Receive into your Troy.

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Poems in English 

• The Heart That Is Pining by Timothy Thomas Fortune by Poetry In English
• The Clime Of My Birth by Timothy Thomas Fortune by Poetry In English
• The Bird Has Vanished by Timothy Thomas Fortune by Poetry In English
• Solitude at an Inn by Thomas Warton by Poetry In English
• Ribbons & Pearls by Timothy Cole by Poetry In English
• Refrigerator, 1957 by Thomas Lux by Poetry In English
• Timothy Thomas Fortune – Timothy Thomas Fortune by Poetry In English
• Plague Victims Catapulted Over Walls Into Besieged City by Thomas Lux by Poetry In English
• On King Arthur’s Round Table at Winchester by Thomas Warton by Poetry In English
• Ode To Sleep by Thomas Warton by Poetry In English
• My Precious Girl by Tiffany Ann Monroe by Poetry In English
• My Miracle Valentine by Tirtha Raj Baral (Sanu Punatare) by Poetry In English
• Mother Earth; Her Beauty And Her Destruction by TMBedell by Poetry In English
• Motel Seedy by Thomas Lux by Poetry In English
• Marine Snow At Mid-Depths And Down by Thomas Lux by Poetry In English
• Lucky by Thomas Lux by Poetry In English
• Love’s Divinest Power by Timothy Thomas Fortune by Poetry In English
• Love of the heart by Timileyin Gabriel Olajuwon by Poetry In English
• Just A Dance by Tiffany M by Poetry In English
• Thomas Lux – Thomas Lux by Poetry In English

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