Elijah Translated in a Blazing Chariot Becomes Undying

Elijah Translated in a Blazing Chariot Becomes Undying

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We spend our days translating English from

Trash phrases into tongues of fire and flame.

We save the language textbooks overcome

With prose.  We sway our English from the shame

Of usefulness to glory, as was meant

For poetry and myths of love.  The fire

In Sappho’s veins turns passion’s lust, godsent,

To immortality.  We sweep desire

From English, Greek and Latin—and make

Them rage, rampage with what they want to say.

We force them from tame words and make them shake

With their tectonic quakes, make stallions neigh.

  Before the lucred commerce of greed’s world

    We poets conjured sorcery unfurled.

~ Phillip Whidden

by phillipw | Dec 15, 2024 | Uncategorized | 0 comments