CHANT THE SPIRIT SONGS (An Original Poetry)
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We are here again and again,
With hyssop and myrrh
to cleanse the land, of things forbidden
the ancestors are whistling in senile sounds
of things decayed, of secrets unseen
the green trees taking brown colors,
the wailing winds are tearing through thistles
Unclad, the devil's rhythm is overwhelming
like a drunk seer doing a song of the dead.
through voices supersonic,
blood of slaughtered rams like a tonic
we're drunk in haemoglobin, seeing beasts and goblin
In the consciousness of our dreams
We're come again to worship the deities
the moon gods and star gods
The heaven is smired with visions
tinted with hue, a touch of blue like a raging storm
like a boiling rum in the pit of Bermuda.
listen, again and again
the spirits are speaking with shivering voices
in thousands and millions like legions
we kneel like lambs in the slaughter house
waiting for the edges of fiery blades
to slash mercilessly in sacrifice to thirsty gods
In trances unseen, in dimensions untraveled
We gyrate in insane dances like rhythm unplugged
the forest is clapping with tremor
in enchantments and spells till the senses are sent to scary realms
where we live to know no more
the beautiful essence of spirits moving and threading in us with a swaggering gait.
POETIC NOTE & ANALYSIS
CHANT THE SPIRIT SONGS is a poem that sets in a fictitious native India, the poem's theme is spiritism, blood sacrifices gods and godesses, the poem centres on a group of people who are deep into the practices of occultism and into the worship of moon gods and sea gods.
The poem speak of appeasing a deity that seems very angry at the lifestyle of it's worshippers they seem to have left it's practices and oferrings and after so much calamity they still decided to start again with appeasing the deities, the poem centred on the main practices and processes of idol worship.
The poem uses Imageries and metaphors to paint the metaphysical as well as the influence of posesessism, the poet mentioned how they would dance and gyrate to music which they hear inside their soul, he narrated the gory sight of animal sacrifices, how they see human sacrifices and the Adamic nature of the influence of forest on the worship of gods and deities.
Written, edited & analysed
By @Josediccus
13/6/2018
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JOSEPH C.IKECHUKWU
I am wondering why actually India is so often associated with mysticism, auras and the likes.
Rich, vivid and imaginative poem.