locus desperatus

Kritikos:
That’s your magisterial appellation,
My small insightful designation.
I could be la poeta, poeta:
bella Sappho, the dead donna.
der donna daemon,
der vampir
(I mean the ruinous lover);
la lovely lamia,
femme flamma,
the jinni of tender smiles.

Here linger old insinuations:  

Judex:
Deceptive Ananias, low deceiver,
Shall I Christen you faithless believer?
I could be elle Una, l’una,
one virgo divina
der dulcinea;
or maiden Mary, Mariam,
l’angel d’imagination,
luminis as bella Helena
la lady seule sacra
As femme of foi Beatrice,
beauté that burns as a flambé.
Nay—
Know you not I am Salomé? —
La dame des situations,
la belle dame sans mercy
La lady Lazarus,
Le rossignol (that bird singing)
of pureté pericula: Existence,
the hopeless place where you
Search as Dante through misconception,
To prick as Herod into apparent perfection,
Where fear flies, fly fears
Forth from my hystera,
Staved of ton vira;
Virility stains la virga
juge juge juge
the apex of verity est le flambeau…

A terrible beauty is born:

Themis:
Men write as the muse of false Inspiration
Of those powers first possessed by women
born to wild oxen, weibchen.
From varun- to uran-
Now I come as Urania,
Kween Zena Queen Ura
la Mousa ouros era
moon-cow and Ana
le godas gorgopa
and summer sveta of Eadha.
I wield the wild dance well you know
atop the skulls of my old foes
Samsara valere, samskara validus          
L’ejade, ijada, yjada
Deep in jade’s jardin where
(the bloody blossom blooms per pulse
the virginal apparition, l’idée false)
Lives the White Goddess
With Titans titainein Tanaous
Stretched tight to her holly-oak trees
arms stretched forth to the Immortal iotes
Death goddess Athene
dare deyja dâd dead
ouraios and falta femella falla
into the valley of white poplar,
Where Lions’ heads are eaten off silver platters.



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