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