ARTFEST: Reflections on Passion and Dogma

    'Ner kun we strike friggled poets
    with beams ahh pure moonleight
    err write inspired verse without
    feigning the joys ahh life. But
    'er do I muse upon the Virgin's wombe
    singing strippeths ta the glaeries thereof
    because inspaired hearts 
    'er worth mure thun welle-roasted doves!

    Yes! Whit happens under bed roome sheets
    is more significunt than whit goes on in
    katherdal halles where bishops with marbled lips
    recite dogmas whuse meanings haf bun eclipsed.

    Real consecration is reached by passionate lunatics
    whuse need fer formulaic phrises ceases
    when they chant music while a lissening ta angels
    as wine flows from every kiss
    & kommunion is achieved
    in sacred moments when this . . .
    becomes this . . . .


Ella:    (shaking her head) This pseudo-Christian imagery is counter-productive. Not only is 
         this apt to offend many pious folks, but also provoke feminist sensitivities.

Shu:     (clapping slowly) The author has succeeded in pissing off many people. I like the way 
         conventional religious imagery is twisted. There's also a strong Dionysian energy 
         running through this poem – it speaks of a mysticism of the flesh in the same way as DH Lawrence.

Juanita: I see it as an ongoing battle between the male and female personas.

Jack:    (laughing) I dunno. Maybe the poet is simply an arse hole. Haf ya considered that?


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from Lit-A-Rupture: A Post Literary Construction by T Newfields
SUMMARY: A beautifully absurd hymn to love and pseudo-intellectual commentary on it.
KEYWORDS: sacred passion, sensualism, spiritual sexuality, ancient verse

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - ?)
Begun: 1995 in Shizuoka, Japan ⨳ Finished: 2021 in Yokohama, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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