I am re-posting previous work during March.
Since 2014, I’ve published 30 original poems
for National Poetry Writing Month every April.
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♻ Unfortunate Juxtapositions ♻
Our jihad is their day of judgement
Your judgement is God’s retribution
Their threats are not empty
Our iniquity is not yet complete
It’s just alarmist nonsense
It is not actually happening yet . . .
Your data plan upgrade was his execution
My Jeremiad was her Magnificat
Their Canaan is our Babylonian exile
The Babylonian exile was a Manchurian candidate
All candidates are out of commission
Your Messianic return will be their Assyrian uprising
Their fortuitous coincidence is our unfortunate juxtaposition.
One man’s doom is another man’s heaven Count the hours—don’t stop at eleven It falls at the end of the sixtieth minute No matter how the Godless try to spin it Read the headlines—then get back to me ( you who read poetry blogs distractedly )
The Aztecs also claimed to have come originally from Aztlan… Their very name, Aztecs, was derived from Aztlan. [Bancroft’s Native Races, vol. V]
Atlantis is rising, the sin unforgiven by blood from the hearts which the idols were given. Aquarian nexus of mystic tradition: pre-Maya, pre-Toltec, Aztlan: the Origin.
Their temples were glimpsed in infernal damnation The images carved in symmetrical vision Where evil, unbounded, uncovers its visage and flows down the axis of false revelation.
Copal on the steps of the temples was wafting their censers were smoking, the mirrors were flashing The crystalline rites of a land in submergence remembered in priestly obsidian slashing.
But even as life was subsiding from victims whose blood caught the sunlight with crimson reflection the vengeance awaited in green vegetation to swiftly re-conquer an ossified nation.
The sea has her secret Sargassoes of culture, her tides and abysses of suction and quaking. Volcanic displacements cause sudden reversals where continents vanish with new lands awaking.
Thus history finally disposes of those who refuse to attune to the warning instruction. They sink in a fit of deluded ambition denying their part in divine evolution.
Now current-borne memories glide through the temples where cruelty flourished, oppressing the blameless. When submarine fable turns modern example all powers, all titles, prove hollow and nameless.
Atlantis is rising, the debt unforgiven And straight to the throne of the judgement is driven. Aquarian idol of mystic tradition: pre-Olmec, pre-Toltec, Aztlan: the revision –
revealed in the end as the Israelite’s error when Baal was enshrined and the rule was by terror.
Televised martyrdom broadcast for paying viewers on global cable. Reality TV shows where dissidents are tortured into confessing allegiance to the Antichrist state. Rome in the decadence happening live on everyone’s smartphones – except for the ones being murdered.
OR: Global Shariah law. Islam takes the West and methodically eliminates all resistance to their false God through genocide and religicide. Israel nuked to dust. Al Qaeda/Taliban mentality now becomes state-sanctioned status quo enshrined in theocracy.
OR: Solar flares and climate change bring about extreme cultural polarization: Christians quote the prophets – but One-World Gaia worshiping neo-pagans consolidate total control in order to revive human sacrifice. Those who oppose their aims & beliefs are the victims.
In the midst of this come ultraviolet-caused skin lesions, environmental chaos, famine/thirst, seismic disasters and mass death.
OR: China consolidates financial control of weakened west, impose Maoist ideology on U.S. even as they plunder our resources to establish new global Mandarin Dynasty in alliance of convenience with Islamic Tyrant-states. All non-compliant citizens executed or herded into work/reeducation camps such as now exist in North Korea.
OR: Fallen angels posing as intergalactic helpers of humanity from the 12th planet Nabiru arrive on strife-torn planet earth promising peace. They join with Atlantean 5th column to inaugurate the New Age of cosmic unity –
but their REAL unspoken purposes are more nefarious and evil.
Enough of that –
back to contemplating my Hello Kitty lunchbox…
Today’s post explores a theme of perennial interest to me –
and perhaps a topic of ridicule for those outside the submarine circle, ATLANTIS: the Lost Continent.
Why does the legend of the sunken civilization resonate so strongly with some of us?
For me, it has a powerful subconscious undertow.
It must be because at a subliminal level we know it speaks about our current civilization. We read portents of our impending doom into the connections (actual as well as delusional) that we trace throughout previous epochs and civilizations. It is an eternal parable of edenic perfection and good government in an idyllic golden age which, through hubris, degenerated into a corrupt and fallen civilization that was destroyed in a sudden well-deserved cataclysm.
Atlantis has fascinated me since I was young—but I became especially obsessed with the legend during my time immersed (submerged?) in the New Age/Occult. I was first made aware of its disturbing psychic implications in The Peyote Dance:A Voyage to the Land of the Tarahumaras by Artaud.
There are cases to be made for Thera/Santorini as the center of the maritime empire (Gavin Menzies even puts forth a theory of Minoan interaction with bronze-age Meso-American cultures) but I am particularly interested in the Yucatan/Caribbean strands of Atlantis lore (as was Lovecraft, who placed the sunken city off the Yucatan in his epic tale The Temple), which seems to be corroborated by topographical anomalies off the southern Cuban coast.
The Bermuda Triangle hypothesis is likewise presented in this fantastic book for the chosen few: The Bible and the Bermuda Triangle.
The Aztecs also claimed to have come originally from Aztlan… Their very name, Aztecs, was derived from Aztlan. [Bancroft’s Native Races, vol. V]
Atlantis is rising, the sin unforgiven by blood from the hearts which the idols were given. Aquarian nexus of mystic tradition: pre-Maya, pre-Toltec, Aztlan: the Origin.
Their temples were glimpsed in infernal damnation The images carved in symmetrical vision Where evil, unbounded, uncovers its visage and flows down the axis of false revelation.
Copal on the steps of the temples was wafting their censers were smoking, the mirrors were flashing The crystalline rites of a land in submergence remembered in priestly obsidian slashing.
But even as life was subsiding from victims whose blood caught the sunlight with crimson reflection the vengeance awaited in green vegetation to swiftly re-conquer an ossified nation.
The sea has her secret Sargassoes of culture, her tides and abysses of suction and quaking. Volcanic displacements cause sudden reversals where continents vanish with new lands awaking.
Thus history finally disposes of those who refuse to attune to the warning instruction. They sink in a fit of deluded ambition denying their part in divine evolution.
Now current-borne memories glide through the temples where cruelty flourished, oppressing the blameless. When submarine fable turns modern example all powers, all titles, prove hollow and nameless.
Atlantis is rising, the debt unforgiven And straight to the throne of the judgement is driven. Aquarian idol of mystic tradition: pre-Olmec, pre-Toltec, Aztlan: the revision –
revealed in the end as the Israelite’s error when Baal was enshrined and the rule was by terror.
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