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LETTERS IN FADED INK (FOUR)

Do you have love for the prey eerie palace, where the Birds of

Paradise flock around the nomadic pasture, in the chamber

massive and continuous.

Do you tourist the rooms and doorways, obscure places and nod

with satisfaction.

If not go deeper.

See moustaches and grins as you are swept up in a dance,

surrounded by a crowd of naked young girls.

Festival climax or ancient religion?

And you convert, increasing your complications, lessened by the

circle of dancers and dragon-like embers, adding to the joyous

chaos.

And with fondness to wine, ancestors and graveyards, the goat

ritual tribes a population to furniture at your celebration hooves.

And you are infidel and cousin, neighbour and outlaw, beckoned

and offered baskets of berries, nuts and dried fruit in the harvest

of the glowing spirit.

And as a slave, block-by-block you entertain the gods, playing

a harsh journey, building up structure and evidence of your

creative capture.

And it is all sunlight and turquoise, corn and stone as galaxies

import plumage to help you fly further, into dark fields of

ingenious darker destinies.

Lee Richard Kirsten

Biography: Born in Cape Town 1974 into an Irish-Dutch family, currently living in London. Started writing at the age of 17.

These poems are from a book entitled

The Poet's Bible: Vol. 1-3

By: Lee Richard Kirsten

ISBN 0-9548420-0-6

Copyright Lee Richard Kirsten 2005

Published by: Letchard Inc creative rebellion since 1991