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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