DIONYSUS

Many conservatives in the United States shy away from being involved in the arts.  They think either that it is “sinful” if you’re a Christian, or that its not pragmatic if you’re a fiscal conservative.  True conservatism is rooted in the European Traditions.  Great art is of Apollo and Dionysus, the creative expression of Light and Dark and Sex and Death. 

               I’d like to share one of my recent poems from a future book I’m working on.  My other work is available here on my site and on Amazon.

 DIONYSUS

Let us call upon the child

Who brings the cure for disease,

Who in sacred rites binds the Earth with the Sun.

Let us now call upon the lover

Who breaks the bread

And pours the wine

For our holy sacrament and divine feast.

This is the rite of the dawn,

That breaks open the gateway between the light of creation

And the void.

Let us call upon the goat

Who pierces the veil with a song

Of lightness and intoxication.

He’s nailed to the tallest tree in the forest

Redeeming all desire

While the women dance in the circle and swim naked

In a river of red.

Light the torches

And sacrifice the calf for the oracle,

The last voice of truth

That brings down lightning from the eye of God.

Let this new era of freedom begin

With the violence of the ritual

And the ruddiness of the skin of Our Lady

As our lord plays his hymns on the golden lyre just for her.

Let us all give praise to our holy one

The dancing goat

As the power of the stars

Comes

On

Down

In

White

Fire

Bringing light to our civilization collapsing under the weight

Of all the women and their desire

To find a ghost on the screen willing to tell them

They are all beautiful

And real.