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.
2007-02-04 04:45:48 · 8 answers · asked by ☮ lovley 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Yep, Phallus by Alec Derwent Hope. I like poetry...Plus, when i did a quick search i saw in his poem “Phallus,” he rejects the pleasures of sexual relationships and romantic attachment. And this poem is one of his early poems tho...Regards...
2007-02-04 04:50:45 · answer #1 · answered by Muratica 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Phallus by Alec Derwent Hope
2007-02-04 04:49:46 · answer #2 · answered by INC0GNIT0 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Phallus by Alec Derwent Hope.
2007-02-04 04:49:43 · answer #3 · answered by andrea 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alec Derwent Hope
2007-02-04 04:49:05 · answer #4 · answered by scorpionwhiz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A. D. Hope 1907-2000
(Full name: Alec Derwent Hope) Australian poet, essayist, critic, and editor.
2007-02-04 04:53:44 · answer #5 · answered by Ghost1952 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sounds like erotic poetry
actually it is by
Alec Derwent Hope
called Phallus
2007-02-04 04:50:35 · answer #6 · answered by ♪ ♫ ☮ NYbron ☮ ♪ ♫ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
2007-02-04 04:48:12 · answer #7 · answered by sammi 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you seem to know a lot of the poem so you probably know who it is by
2007-02-04 04:49:06 · answer #8 · answered by TnT 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋