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Click hereWe did not go knowingly in the world
To love too greatly when the Word returned
As tribal and masculine, my Wiccans.
They labeled us as whores and heretics
In the forest of the Triple Goddess,
Though some of us kept secrets with husbands
Whose crops yet again went to the manor
For unholy war in the Holy Land.
Later in their self indulgence they swore
False testament against Galileo,
For the world they ruled was centered in Rome,
And they damned his soul for the sake of it,
But in the beginning the Word was Love
When Nero Claudius Caesar saw stone.
Lorencino:
Chloe was chosen because I liked the sound of it and I believe it to be more a commonly used name in Europe where I imagined the Wiccan ritual, "Drawing Down the Moon" to be taking place.
BTW, I was more interested in how religious movements that begin with the virtues of mercy and love and then gain political power often persecute other spiritual movements who were perceived much in the same way when the religious power was considered a cult.
I'm thinking long and hard about your comment re structure.
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I'm fascinated but have some difficulty with this poem. Is there significance to the name Chloe? Is it just a name of an ordinary person performing the ritual of the priestess or does it refer to the Greek goddess of grain and fertility, Demeter? Does this matter? <br><br>
The content is of great interest to me and is a solution to the political poetry I long to write and have so much difficulty with. The current alienation of capitalist consumer society has its roots in the ancient victory of patriarchy and in dealing with this ancient revolution, your poem has meaning for me as a comment on the world I inhabit today. <br><br>
The line structure bothers me, though.