Dead Gods Do Not Die
from DEAD GODS DO NOT DIE - and other vagabond poems - Larry Goodell - he can't help it - Fashionism of Success and DADA LIVES and Oh Say Can You See by Larry Goodell
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What comes to life before you turn out the light . . .
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Dead gods do not die. By their nature they rest
in your unconscious. “The unconscious is God,” Jung said.
I think it is all dead gods. Pick one out and breathe on it.
What happens? It comes to life.
Suddenly Zoroaster flies before you stretching out wings from his rock
and hovers in his ancient power with great command and demand.
That mysterious wind from his powerful flapping feathers
turns into Quetzalcoatl and the fires of night ignite.
There is his ancient pyramid presence, the serpent coiled in your heart.
The steps that go up to the sacrifice of dawn and suddenly
the birth of Aphrodite out of the shell out of the water
the ocean lapping at your feet. Oh lover of love caress me,
Avalokitishvara reach out your 1000 arms of compassion
from your put together self. Bring me into the Buddha of your heart
as Jesus walks down the road and tells me how I treat someone suffering
is how I treat him. But the deadest god of all is god’s god,
the father of all. He is broken into thousands of pieces back into the mother of Earth
here in this little nick of the universe. He is dissolved into her as he was in
his ancient history. As the hands of compassion ring out and around:
gods on gods on gods and a sea of goddesses as
the sun Pautiwa looks down in four colors and the twins accompany
Spider Woman to her adorned festivities. Right at home with
my twins and her presence, that old Wind Woman who lives on
the crest of this mountain where I live – quiet now
in the mind, I say goodnight to, layered mind
the imagination of all created things, the muses of the instant
from non-burial grounds deep down under
the Orpheus put together and wandering singing, orphic orchestra,
what a strange chorus to hear as I turn out the light.
© 2012 larry goodell
larry goodell 2012
in your unconscious. “The unconscious is God,” Jung said.
I think it is all dead gods. Pick one out and breathe on it.
What happens? It comes to life.
Suddenly Zoroaster flies before you stretching out wings from his rock
and hovers in his ancient power with great command and demand.
That mysterious wind from his powerful flapping feathers
turns into Quetzalcoatl and the fires of night ignite.
There is his ancient pyramid presence, the serpent coiled in your heart.
The steps that go up to the sacrifice of dawn and suddenly
the birth of Aphrodite out of the shell out of the water
the ocean lapping at your feet. Oh lover of love caress me,
Avalokitishvara reach out your 1000 arms of compassion
from your put together self. Bring me into the Buddha of your heart
as Jesus walks down the road and tells me how I treat someone suffering
is how I treat him. But the deadest god of all is god’s god,
the father of all. He is broken into thousands of pieces back into the mother of Earth
here in this little nick of the universe. He is dissolved into her as he was in
his ancient history. As the hands of compassion ring out and around:
gods on gods on gods and a sea of goddesses as
the sun Pautiwa looks down in four colors and the twins accompany
Spider Woman to her adorned festivities. Right at home with
my twins and her presence, that old Wind Woman who lives on
the crest of this mountain where I live – quiet now
in the mind, I say goodnight to, layered mind
the imagination of all created things, the muses of the instant
from non-burial grounds deep down under
the Orpheus put together and wandering singing, orphic orchestra,
what a strange chorus to hear as I turn out the light.
© 2012 larry goodell
larry goodell 2012
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from DEAD GODS DO NOT DIE - and other vagabond poems - Larry Goodell - he can't help it - Fashionism of Success and DADA LIVES and Oh Say Can You See,
track released July 22, 2012
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Larry Goodell Placitas, New Mexico
Piano/poetry collaborations AT TOP, THEN POETRY, THEN PIANO IMPROVISATIONS AT BOTTOM!
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recorded, edited & released here, pay what you can to help me with the site cost, free jazz piano-keyboard improvisations, interviews, radio plays, some songs from a lifelong resident of my native New Mexico, I'm a performance poet who "blasted off the page" in the early 70's. Love to all!
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