Beelzebub
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(03-29-2021, 03:50 AM)Thunderembargo Wrote:  STARGATE* of IVANHOE

In each card shuffled with scented confustion (If that typo is on purpose, I love it. It makes confusion seem a little more real)
you deliver the sacred tree
with new time
appointed by the stars * ** **** * *** * ** ***** *** * * (I am very fond of the visual representation of stars here. I'm fuzzy on how that was not evident to others)
to cover the hemi - sphere (I know someone else didn't like this but splitting the word in half is rather clever especially since hemi means half. Not certain if you were going for that)
of the ancient scroll
the seed purchased land
growing up turbines
of plump, round and pregnant disposition
sun- touched and aimless
oh fruits of jupiter (Jupiter should be capitalized)
or moses cactii (Moses should be capitalized and cacti is spelled with only one 'i")
Anatoth riding out (Anathoth is spelled wrong. It needs to have an extra 'h')
gleams of Mercurial sea foam cucumber
and de - canted canteloupe (Cantaloupe is spelled wrong)
decanted, sideways,
like jacob crying potatoes\ (If there's such a thing as jacob crying potatoes please forgive me. I can be a dunce. However, my guess is you weren't so Jacob needs to be capitalized and potatoes needs to be in quotes like "Potatoes!", if that's what you were going for)
into the jibbed soil
the moon ladder carrying aquarius (Aquarius should be capitalized)
and buckets of apples
turned into hard cider (A period to end the thought should be here unless you weren't ending a thought)
The poem slightly confuses me. Beelzebub would imply some kind of demon which would make sense especially when you refer to Moses, Jacob, and Anathoth, all of which are biblical references. Are you just talking about a bad harvest? Perhaps, the symbolism of a demon symbolizing a bad omen? At first I thought maybe the cards were something to do with tarot but there are so many things mentioned that are references to things that grow. Cacti, cucumber (although I thought at first based on sea foam cucumber you were talking about a sea cucumber), potatoes, cantaloupe, apples. Mercurial suggests a sudden change of mood or mind. Jibbed soil suggests that it's stopped or refused to go on. Anathoth makes sense because in 1 Chronicles 12:3 Solomon banishes Abiathar the priest of Anathoth "unto thine own fields". Maybe riding out means that the harvest is going, so maybe instead a cycle completed, end of harvest hence the apples being turned into apple cider and perhaps Aquarius, Mercurial, and Jupiter all reference times of the year? I still could be wrong but that's just a guess. If so, I think it's rather clever. Certainly a better poem than most that I've read in a while.
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Messages In This Thread
Beelzebub - by Thunderembargo - 03-29-2021, 03:50 AM
RE: Beelzebub - by TranquillityBase - 03-29-2021, 09:01 PM
RE: Beelzebub - by Majestic Sun - 04-21-2021, 07:02 AM
RE: Beelzebub - by busker - 09-26-2021, 08:17 AM
RE: Beelzebub - by ISawASpaceship - 09-28-2021, 07:35 PM
RE: Beelzebub - by Beowulf - 10-10-2021, 12:43 PM
RE: Beelzebub - by Sapphire26855 - 11-03-2021, 05:05 AM



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