On the Cindered Shoulders of Confused Men
“Fire burning in a hill
The lines are rocky rough
Red angels wait to pick remains
The cindered shoulder
Of confused men”
(Peter Murphy)
"On the Cindered Shoulders of Confused Men"
Close your eyes it was all just a bad dream
Burnt you in Hell back then you were just a child
Remember when?
When you were a child?
Then why repeat Hell again?
The Lewis Trap kills
all your blue biting
crazed blow flies, they infected every egg
The Custard Cream Molasses Black
of your Candyman sins
Through a child’s eyes
You are staring at your turned back
in the mirror again
Your reflection walks away
from you every now and then
Close your eyes go back to sleep again
it was all just a bad dream
Simon
Peter
Fisher of Men
Peter
Simon
Somewhere in another dream
two very different men
Wolf hangs his head
The Dark Monk lives on again
no friend always walking alone
through unforgiving mirrors
lost in Purgatory forgiven
but never more to be written
(Lovejoy-Burton, August 2018)
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes".
- Some Clergyman (Charles Spurgeon)
"His heaven is uncovered not
A black tree blocks his way
His way is skating round a dome
(His way is in dismay)
The playmate sings
Like Orphee in some thunder world
Asking to be bathed in light
To be exemplified"
- Peter Murphy
"Saw his past
He had dug for trust
With blind infected hands
And wondered as the hurt bit hard
Why the sacred weren't at hand"
- Peter Murphy
1. https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/petermurphy/indigoeyes.html
2. Orphee/shortened version of Orpheus; or feminine version of Orpheus.
3. Orpheus and Eurydice
The most famous story in which Orpheus figures is that of his wife Eurydice (sometimes referred to as Euridice and also known as Argiope). While walking among her people, the Cicones, in tall grass at her wedding, Eurydice was set upon by a satyr. In her efforts to escape the satyr, Eurydice fell into a nest of vipers and suffered a fatal bite on her heel. Her body was discovered by Orpheus who, overcome with grief, played such sad and mournful songs that all the nymphs and gods wept. On their advice, Orpheus travelled to the underworld. His music softened the hearts of Hades and Persephone, who agreed to allow Eurydice to return with him to earth on one condition: he should walk in front of her and not look back until they both had reached the upper world. He set off with Eurydice following, and, in his anxiety, as soon as he reached the upper world, he turned to look at her, forgetting that both needed to be in the upper world, and she vanished for the second time, but now forever.
Copyright © Leanne Lovejoy-Burton | Year Posted 2018
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