Archive: 2009 March
- Refuge and Regeneration
SEXUAL MAGIC AMONG THE TRIBES OF KALI Kalikas are a strange brood. Kali’s children, you might call them. Though she is a barren mother. Consider this paradox for a moment. In Hindu folk religion of Dravidian origins, the Mahavidyas are ten emanations of Kali, including Mahakali as the first of the ten. These infernal witches […]
March 31st, 2009 0 comments - Kali’s Game, 1
AMOR FATI Gaming is the supreme metaphor for human behavior in Kali Yuga, especially in the last two centuries until its end in 2216 CE. In the extreme condition of these times, any act or choice or venture that cannot be stated in terms of a game will not be either understood or mastered. In […]
March 29th, 2009 0 comments - Dedication
Farewell, Eurydice A PORNOGRAPHIC NOVEL OF LOVE For Emma Orpheus the shaman defied the powers of the Underworld to find his woman Eurydice and return her to life, but when he looked back to see if she was following him out of the realm of the dead, he lost her forever. How do you […]
March 29th, 2009 0 comments - List of Conversions
Refuge for the Unborn Yeats Converted: Vajrayana in Verse forty poems plus one Poems in chronological order, following Yeats’ collections Titles are for conversions with (numbers) indicating the original poem in the Collected Works 1893: The Rose 1 The Tantrika and the Terton (18) 2 The Ruse of the World (20) 3 In Misty Oddiyan […]
March 25th, 2009 0 comments - Room 502
Room 502 Strands of auburn hair upon the pillow noble profile in October light: How did we come to this, two mystics spun into desire who merged and sank together, ravished and undone? Your gaze is turquoise-shattered light igniting my desire, but can the craving I attain by kisses spilled along your neck, tongue-prayers […]
March 25th, 2009 0 comments - A Pilgrim in Pays Cathar
A Pilgrim in Pays Cathar for Emma Whose pale eyes aching blue drink light from Cathar skies, and wander at the brink of love as by the ramparts steep and stark a pilgrim stands defiantly above this folly and this human fear - except the fear that love denies? The ocean rushing with rough clouds […]
March 25th, 2009 0 comments - Refuge for the Unborn (35 – 40)
35. Two Songs of a Dugpa (C.W. 186, Two Songs of a Fool) I A sleek black cat and snow-white steed eat by my terrace as they need; and both confer upon my face the dignity and elegance of sentient creatures steeped in trance. Arising from my kind of sleep, I contemplate how they reveal […]
March 25th, 2009 0 comments - Refuge for the Unborn (28 – 34)
28. Tandem Desire (C.W. 143 The Wild Swans at Coole) With Jeanne, in conversion 9 November 2009 Andalucia The leaves turn in their autumn beauty, The beachside paths are clear, November’s sky mirrors the sea and keeps its silence near. Along the low and lapping shore Glide tandem swans in love. The untimed moment now arrives […]
March 25th, 2009 0 comments - Refuge for the Unborn (21 -27)
21. Consort Yoga (C.W. 98 Against Unworthy Praise) One heart in wholeness cannot preserve itself, yet it can break in two and joined in twoness, so reserve the passions of the pair that through exchange of word and glance there runs like ‘silver on a trembling leaf one vein after the next of chance emotion, […]
March 25th, 2009 0 comments - Refuge for the Unborn (14 – 20)
14. A Terton to His Beloved (C.W. 56, A Poet to His Beloved) I offer you in reverent mood my secrets and my treasure lore. Wild woman who by passion led entered a wave where moonlight stood and lingered on the terrace bed, to entertain divine delight. Dakini with the gaze of ore, with you […]
March 25th, 2009 0 comments