@ 27.055 MHz: Ad Astra; Invocation Upon A Phrase By The Poet, Bion

Poet, be comforted, be raised up to celebration:  as to

your poems, the Young Muses gather, the Loves (as Bion

named them)---long-haired, slender, shirtless and barefoot,

clad in all styles of jeans, all the various shade of blue,

to revel thus in your Poetry, and therefore encourage you

beyond the reach of prejudiced and homophobic hatred.

Where the Loves' eagerly grass-stained soles have tread and trod

becomes, also, a tract hallowed and sacred,

across the Cosmos whence they came, summoned by LOVE, Who is God.


J-Called

Author's Notes/Comments: 

The use of the term "Loves" in the second and seventh line is based upon J. M. Edmond's translation of Bion's Lament For Adonis in the Loeb Classical Library, volume 28, to which the second line alludes.


The last line alludes to 1 John 4:8, interpreted according to the commutative property of arithmetic..


I believe this poem has been percolating in me since the summer of 1977.

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