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Lost Pantheons


“Lost Pantheons” 

Alexandrine tragedies
Racine diamond-edged
come and go 
French letters 
blown like leaves
straight up 
into the rarefied air
scattered like lovers
against a body 
of purple vain poetry 
written invisible
on the skin of 
Miss Chance 
Cocteau
spoken with 
joie de vivre crisp
sharp apple-red lips 
painted over 
Comme des Garçons  
Marais tempts Baudelaire 
from early grave despair
laughing joyfully 
le provocateur 
along the 
blue veined rivers
of his romantic
new violet 
strung camp

tentatively 
sensitive 
rising 

alive,
 
small gods
come here
worshipping words

visions 
of real love 
denied

ships passing
sonorously 
between veils

Candide
aware scries 
a hidden large life 

lost pantheons
and their brides

(LadyLabyrinth / 2022)
for Drake, S. esq et al
https://youtu.be/DZfIOKEaYH0



Jean Cocteau - Blood of a Poet (1930) 
with Massive Attack - Paradise Circus (Gui Boratto remix)
https://youtu.be/zSNZxvWvodY



"Though his body of work 
encompassed many different mediums, 
Cocteau insisted on calling himself a poet, 
classifying the great variety of his works – 
poems, novels, plays, essays, drawings, films – as "poésie" -
"poésie de roman", "poésie de thêatre", "poésie critique",
"poésie graphique" and "poésie cinématographique"."
















Voltaire 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltaire

Voltaire Biography 
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Voltaire

Voltaire as a child 
https://academic.oup.com/hwj/article-abstract/50/1/137/635562?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Candide/Voltaire 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candide




Jean Cocteau 
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-romance-of-jean-cocteau-and-jean-marais/




Rimbaud and Verlaine 
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54293974

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Verlaine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Rimbaud

https://historyisqueer.tumblr.com/post/15195606257/history-is-*****-paul-verlaine





How I fell for French Poetry 
https://chapter16.org/how-i-fell-for-french-poetry/




Racine 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Racine




Pantheon 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheon_(religion)




Christian Perspective 
https://sojo.net/articles/10-bible-passages-teach-christian-perspective-homosexuality

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Date: 5/3/2022 1:54:00 PM
"“Poets . . . shed not only the red blood of their hearts but the white blood of their souls." Jean Cocteau.
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Date: 5/3/2022 1:33:00 PM
The Blood of a Poet/Cocteau.
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 5/3/2022 2:11:00 PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blood_of_a_Poet
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 5/3/2022 2:10:00 PM
with English Subtitles, full, 1930 original, "The Blood of a Poet"/Jean Cocteau - https://movies2watch.is/watch-movie/watch-the-blood-of-a-poet-hd-66828.5507836
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Date: 5/3/2022 2:10:00 PM
"Le Sang D'un Poète" (Original, French, Full) / Jean Cocteau, 1930 - https://archive.org/details/JeanCocteauLeSangDunPote1930
Date: 5/3/2022 12:56:00 AM
Jean Cocteau speaks to the year 2000, subtitled - 1962
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 5/3/2022 12:56:00 AM
https://youtu.be/z-x-wNiN4Hk
Date: 5/2/2022 6:02:00 PM
Leaves/ Verlaine.
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 5/2/2022 6:02:00 PM
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/chanson-dautomne-autumn-song.html-0
Date: 5/2/2022 6:01:00 PM
Bronski Beat - It Ain't Necessarily So
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 5/2/2022 6:02:00 PM
https://youtu.be/BQpYLhiJB-4
Date: 5/2/2022 5:54:00 PM
Bronski Beat - The Age of Consent (1984 Full Album)
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Date: 5/2/2022 5:54:00 PM
https://youtu.be/kgU7mos-z-Y
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Heaven 17 - Temptation
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 5/2/2022 5:55:00 PM
https://youtu.be/hKi7Wq5CUI4

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