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Johnny Noiπ Jan 2018
I know this b/c I was told by a palace eunich
who bore silent witness for centuries; he & his odalisque
wife who tends the sacred flame & bears prophecies
from the gods when they are not too urgent;
otherwise Prometheus passes them off to Hermes
who then informs Dionysus;
but when Medusa goes below his belt & discovers
she has been secretly married in Vegas or Hades;
her shade honeymooning in ***** which resembled old Beirut in those days; as if twere her own mirror’s image
she shopped for big colorful hats & wore them
to ceremonial parades but not wanting to be caught out
changed her name to Kali going by the moniker
mother of destruction; sounds cool right? Shiva didn’t know
what she got up to when she was out of his sight
but he was too busy wreaking havoc of his own;
her jewelry damningly strange; skulls & bones of men
she'd turned to stone; Medusa cleaned up nice &
calling herself Parvati stepped out w/ Hermes &
went slumming in the Neoplatonic bars along the coast
in her bikini; shocking Shakti tan the envy of every
Mediterranean maiden; every matronly Roman **** talking
about that gorgeous black ******* the beach
whose skin sparkled like night; Medusa laughing
up the sleeve of her striped cover up; is she a Jew,
they asked, or the reincarnation of Cleopatra;
surely the latter, let’s ask the witch of Endor
but Samuel isn’t saying; let’s ask ******* Apollo
but he isn’t saying, spitting in Cyclop’s eye;
Hermes isn’t saying & even Hera is yesterday’s news
Ray Irvine Mar 1
As Mind's Reflect, Up All Below,
The Cosmic Dance Where Currents Flow.
Correspond with Whispered Keys,
"As Above, So Mote It Be."

Vibration's Hum, a Subtle Sway,
Polarity Shifts, Through Night and Day.
Rhythmic Pulses, Measured Beats,
Cause and Effect, Refuse Receipts.

Gender's Spark, in All That's Made,
A Mental Ray, Where Truths are Laid.
Seven Laws, in Hidden Art,
Her Own Thoughts, Our Heart to Heart.

A Midnight Ditty in Principle,
Descend Ascend, Equivocal,
Hermetics Here, She'll Meet Me There!
Krystal Waters Dance on Air....

Hi Gain that's Ren, Pain in the Art,
To Bridge the Worlds with Bonaparte,
Liberation's Ezekiel, Cosmic Clocks.
Maldek Explosions, Best Change My Socks.

Laws of Attraction, see Laws Attract.
Laws of Correspondence, Correspond.
Laws of Consent, with Retroact,
Laws of Response with that Law of One.

Your Dull Oblongs, My Medulla Oblongata,
Hull Shanty Songs, Your REM Superchargers,
Just Early 'Eve in Dreams Thyme Dumb,
I'd Wash Your Finger, Before ******* Your Thumb.

MILABS Get Cute, an Obtuse Angel,
My Neoplatonic Raphael,
I'll Name One Quarter of Your Fine Earth!
That Still Raids Roman, I Still Wide Berth!

Pluto's Matrix, I'm Bored Lets Seek,
I'll Take a Fly By, Early Week,
Peacock Angels Strapped on my Back,
Just in-case Zetas Attack.

Monadic Gods now So Biennial,
My Lords and Ladies, Sesquicentennial.
My Love Again, I Can Struggle With,
Yet is All I have, and All I Give.
Johnny Noiπ Aug 2018
[the early Christian fathers were libertine neoplatonic
philosophers, who under the influence of strong drink
& the Book, witnessed to thoughts
& supposed visions of "Jesus Christ"
the cosmic body [living archetype]
of the Universal Architect: [think of a Bronze-Age James Dean]
early 17th century: from modern Latin paederastia,
from Greek paiderastia, from pais,
paid- ‘boy’ + erastēs ‘lover’:
the only person who can say
whether homosexuality is wrong is a proctologist;
late 19th century: from the Greek
prōktos ‘****’ + -logist: callipygean:
having well-shaped buttocks; late 18th century:
from Greek kallipūgos,
coined to describe a famous statue
of Venus;    kallos ‘beauty’ + pūgē
‘buttocks,’ + ian [a free-swimming ******
form of a coelenterate such as a jellyfish,
typically having an umbrella-shaped body
with stinging tentacles around the edge];
In some species, medusae are a phase
                in the life cycle alternating
           w/ a polypoid phase: beautiful:                      
                              pl­easing the senses
or mind [aesthetically].  "beautiful poetry"
attractive, pretty, handsome, good-looking,
alluring, prepossessing; lovely, charming,
delightful, appealing, engaging, winsome;
ravishing, gorgeous, stunning, arresting,
glamorous, bewitching, beguiling; graceful,
elegant, exquisite, aesthetic, artistic, decorative,
magnificent; divine, drop-dead gorgeous,
easy on the eye, killer, cute, foxy; beauteous;
comely, fair       "beautiful fashion models
[                ],             are a thing of the past"
Tékhnē
acquired through,
external factors
You differentiated,
away from exact knowledge,
and Science
Biology
You are born
In the middle,
is nature's riddle
Earth
Ancient Greeks
It was not the same,
Philosophical frameworks
or Cultural values,
that led to the modern,
understanding of art
Practical skill
Craft and a method,
to make or do
Technology
Technique derived from techne
The idea of an artist,
transcendent visionary
Hello Michelangelo
Renaissance artists
Humanism
Individualism
Nature given
Neoplatonic
Truth and beauty
Internal World,
of ideas and soul
Leonardo da Vinci whole
Earthborn
Art form

© 2025 Carol Natasha Diviney, Ph.D.

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