Spyder
06-30-2004, 01:04 AM
I know this is for arts, but poetry is art! So here’s some of my latest work, the first three are from a series im writing called “madness” the later are random pieces that I have written as a result of various events and things. They probably wont get read, but alas, here they are anyway! All comments, suggestions and criticisms are welcome!
Thanks
Spyder
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Madness
Madness
I – Stultifera Navis (The Ship of Fools)
Stultifera navis sails
Under the winds of madness.
In its black and white insanity
Desperate passion is gathered from the sea.
Where false presumption has left us
Here in the bow stultifera navis.
Cry oh mercy to the waves
I have forgotten my sin of just punishment!
I give the seas my lust and anger!
I fall into a hull of madness
Of passion and delirium
And of a colourless asylum.
Madness
II – The Great Confinement
In these prisons of moral order
The madman bears his stigmata.
Stakes irons, dungeons and prisons
Had sought to destroy the poor,
The vagabond,
The unemployed
And we are but madmen
In our poverty.
In the house of Saint-Louis
The history of unreason
Waits uncradeled in its cell of deception!
Only Beggar’s hold the true meaning
Of a second rebellion against god!
They hold no moral duty to their state
Which in its religious piety
Hold men in approaching redemption.
Madness
III - The Insane
Torn at by rats
In eighteenth century cells.
The entire weight of dumb anxiety
Bears witness to this unnatural animal
Punished in Christian abasement
And condemned with an immorality of unreason.
Naked and shattered she lye’s in the hay
Changed from life
To Christian decay.
Her crimes are numerous:
She is poor,
She is weak,
She is crucified because of the crucifixion,
She renounces God.
In ignorance and madness
Religion seizes control
Of the human stable
And insanity rules in the abandonment of reason.
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Thanks
Spyder
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Madness
Madness
I – Stultifera Navis (The Ship of Fools)
Stultifera navis sails
Under the winds of madness.
In its black and white insanity
Desperate passion is gathered from the sea.
Where false presumption has left us
Here in the bow stultifera navis.
Cry oh mercy to the waves
I have forgotten my sin of just punishment!
I give the seas my lust and anger!
I fall into a hull of madness
Of passion and delirium
And of a colourless asylum.
Madness
II – The Great Confinement
In these prisons of moral order
The madman bears his stigmata.
Stakes irons, dungeons and prisons
Had sought to destroy the poor,
The vagabond,
The unemployed
And we are but madmen
In our poverty.
In the house of Saint-Louis
The history of unreason
Waits uncradeled in its cell of deception!
Only Beggar’s hold the true meaning
Of a second rebellion against god!
They hold no moral duty to their state
Which in its religious piety
Hold men in approaching redemption.
Madness
III - The Insane
Torn at by rats
In eighteenth century cells.
The entire weight of dumb anxiety
Bears witness to this unnatural animal
Punished in Christian abasement
And condemned with an immorality of unreason.
Naked and shattered she lye’s in the hay
Changed from life
To Christian decay.
Her crimes are numerous:
She is poor,
She is weak,
She is crucified because of the crucifixion,
She renounces God.
In ignorance and madness
Religion seizes control
Of the human stable
And insanity rules in the abandonment of reason.
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