the shuttle-cock clown
Politic
begins the martyrdom of inconsequence

conjoined principles
universal
of masculine and feminine

consumed through austerity
of the Infinite
behind celibate shadows
upon aged radiance
left from collapsed suns, moons and stars

angel gaze
of eyes sublime
pierce pontificate mimes
who offer immunity
(serene)
for rape of reason
rape of mind
an ever benevolent kind
of pure Nirvanic
nihilistic unity
(blind)

nerves in heaven flinch
when intellect tentacles stretch
inside the opulent omniscience
of its sanctified sterility

where silver-blue Lucifer
serves
cocaine in golden goblets

laughing as he passes
adolescent thighs
draped
in shaped satirical pose

vapid vixens
on Lethe's bank
await these clueless
parvenus
led through furrows
of phosphorescent fire -
an odious oasis

white-bright sky-light
of stellar star-night
in Zodiac's carousel

ecstatic tornadic dust
whirls crusaders
from hallucinatory citadels
of lust

over the blue-green
oval oceans
in the oxidized Orient

onyx-eyed obsidian
Cyclops Satyrs
observe
from an obsolete Eros
as immortality museums
crumble
on a mildewed moon

concubines
of consort pleasure
fossilize

as virgin's of promise
gaze at Peris
while other fallen angels
wax and wane

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In Persian mythology, peris (Persian: پری Pari) are descended from fallen angels who have been denied paradise until they have done penance. In earlier sources they are described as agents of evil; later, they are benevolent. They are exquisite, winged, fairy-like creatures ranking between angels and evil spirits. They sometimes visit the realm of mortals.[citation needed]

Peris were the target of a lower level of evil beings called دیوسان divs (دَيۋَ daeva), who persecuted them by locking them in iron cages. This persecution was brought about by, as the divs perceived it, the peris' lack of sufficient self-esteem to join the rebellion against good.[citation needed]

In Thomas Moore's poem Paradise and the Peri, part of his Lalla-Rookh, a Peri gains entrance to heaven after three attempts at giving an angel the gift most dear to God. The first attempt is "The last libation Liberty draws/From the heart that bleeds and breaks in her cause," to wit, a drop of blood from a young soldier killed for an attempt on the life of Mahmud of Ghazni. Next is a "Precious sigh/of pure, self-sacrificing love": a sigh stolen from the dying lips of a maiden who died with her lover of plague in the Ruwenzori rather than surviving in exile from the disease and the lover. The third gift, the one that gets the Peri into heaven, is a "Tear that, warm and meek/Dew'd that repentant sinner's cheek": the tear of an evil old man who repented upon seeing a child praying in the ruins of the Temple of the Sun at Balbec, Syria. Robert Schumann set Moore's tale to music as an oratorio, Paradise and the Peri, using an abridged German translation.

Thanks for the instigation,

Peter

I had no idea about Moore's Paradise and the Peri but as you say, thanks for the instigation. One can instigate one Google and follow it for days. lol. Oh what I would have given for Google in my youth. Shumann among other great composers utilized the poetics of their contemporaries and non-contemporaries for inspiration. Even unto Cats which I am sure would have made Eliot a very happy and suddenly commercial poet. Thanks Peter. I am off to Google. tom