News for the Delphic Oracle (Demo)

News For The Delphic Oracle

There all the golden codgers lay

There the silver dew

And the great water sighed for love

and the wind sighed too

Man-stealer Niamh leant and sighed

by Oisin on the grass

There sighed amid his choir of love

tall Pythagoras

Plotinus came and looked about

the salt flakes on his breast

and having stretched and yawned awhile

lay sighing like the rest

Straddling each a dolphin's back

and steadied by a fin

those innocents relive their death,

their wounds open again

The waters laugh because their cries

are sweet and strange

The dolphins plunge

until in some cliff-sheltered bay,

where wades the choir of love,

they pitch their burdens off

Where wades the choir of love

they pitch their burdens off

Slim adolescence that a nymph has stripped,

Peleus on Thetis stares

Her limbs are delicate as an eyelid

Love has blinded him with tears

But Thetis' belly listens

Down the mountain walls

from where Pan's cavern is

intolerable music falls

Foul goat-head, brutal arm appear

Belly, shoulder, bum

flash fishlike nymphs and satyrs

copulate in the foam