We Need More Enlightened Priests and Priestesses than Psychotherapists

We Need More Enlightened Priests and Priestesses than Psychotherapists

Modern poetry  modern verse  contemporary poetry  contemporary verse  modern poem  contemporary poem

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/ernst-men-shall-know-nothing-of-this-t00336

The gods become accessible at night

In dreams. The gods are banished now from men
Who know too much but goddesses are bright
In nightmares and the gods are brighter when
They come inside the skull and fill the brain
Anew with visions. Negatives they are,
Developed in that darkroom, stain on stain,
Grays, blacknesses, and brilliance from afar
They come again. Divinities will not
Be exiled. They transmogrify within
Our deeper consciousness . . . where it is fraught
With holiness and multi-layered sin.
..The gods, long vanished, come to us in dreams,
….Unbidden, dank subterranean streams.

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