one of my most favoritest poems i ever wrote:
i psted the rough draft a while back, but here it is again:
Poem to a First Love
David L Fort
And what of Her? First wife
to Adam, long since driven
from the Earthly Garden,
fallen by an act of pride.
Lillith, bedder of devils,
mother of monsters,
killer of kids. She spoke
the Name and flew from her husband.
Recent legends have her
Bedding the One who is
Many; Yahweh who is
Elohim, Father who is also Son.
How was that act accomplished?
Was He as ephemeral as always?
Did each part of that triptych self
have its own member? Want its own turn?
Or did it come all
at one time, three organs
filling three orifices?
And when she heard
that his only begotten son
was to be entrusted to another,
what then? Did she weep in anguish?
And, when she left Him,
to bed once again with
rough beasts, did she
lay beneath their misshapen
shapes, or straddle their goatish
pelvises, and mutter to
herself: “Yahweh, oh Yahweh”?
and the draft i turned in at the end of the semseter:
Poem to a First Love
David L Fort
Lillith, bedder of devils,
mother of monsters,
killer of kids,
she spoke the Name
and flew from her husband-
obscure legends say she
bedded the One who is
Many; Yahweh who is
Elohim, Father who is also Son.
Was He as ephemeral as always?
Did each part of that triptych
have its own member? Want its own turn?
Or did it come all
at once, three organs, three orifices,
Three in One, the old dogma?
And when she heard
that his only begotten Son
was to be entrusted to another,
what then? Did she weep in anguish?
And, when she left Him,
to bed once again with
rough beasts, did she
lay beneath their misshapen
shapes, or straddle their goatish
pelvises, and moan to herself
as not to be heard by her partners,
that most ecstatic name; “Yahweh, O, Yahweh”?
Poem to a First Love
David L Fort
And what of Her? First wife
to Adam, long since driven
from the Earthly Garden,
fallen by an act of pride.
Lillith, bedder of devils,
mother of monsters,
killer of kids. She spoke
the Name and flew from her husband.
Recent legends have her
Bedding the One who is
Many; Yahweh who is
Elohim, Father who is also Son.
How was that act accomplished?
Was He as ephemeral as always?
Did each part of that triptych self
have its own member? Want its own turn?
Or did it come all
at one time, three organs
filling three orifices?
And when she heard
that his only begotten son
was to be entrusted to another,
what then? Did she weep in anguish?
And, when she left Him,
to bed once again with
rough beasts, did she
lay beneath their misshapen
shapes, or straddle their goatish
pelvises, and mutter to
herself: “Yahweh, oh Yahweh”?
and the draft i turned in at the end of the semseter:
Poem to a First Love
David L Fort
Lillith, bedder of devils,
mother of monsters,
killer of kids,
she spoke the Name
and flew from her husband-
obscure legends say she
bedded the One who is
Many; Yahweh who is
Elohim, Father who is also Son.
Was He as ephemeral as always?
Did each part of that triptych
have its own member? Want its own turn?
Or did it come all
at once, three organs, three orifices,
Three in One, the old dogma?
And when she heard
that his only begotten Son
was to be entrusted to another,
what then? Did she weep in anguish?
And, when she left Him,
to bed once again with
rough beasts, did she
lay beneath their misshapen
shapes, or straddle their goatish
pelvises, and moan to herself
as not to be heard by her partners,
that most ecstatic name; “Yahweh, O, Yahweh”?