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[title] => Tyrian Purple
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[bodytext] => Tyrian Purple is the colour of ecstacy The state of being outside the body Transcending oneself. Different religions offer different techniques for achieving Tyrian Purple. It is yoga in Hinduism Contemplation and asceticism in Christianity Peyote in the Native American religions And orgiastic dancing in the Dionysiac faiths. The excitement and frenzy of large crowds (At football matches for example) Are a secular expression of Tyrian Purple. Tyrian Purple is blood changed into flower The blood of Hyacinthus Flowing on the ground Staining the herbage Yet ceasing to be blood But a flower of a hue more beautiful than the Tyrian youth. Venus sprinkling nectar on the blood of her beloved Adonis Mingling with it Bubbles rising Until a flower springs up. As the wind blows the blossoms open And afterwards blow the petals away So the flower from the blood of Adonis Is called anemone Or wind flower. And when you pick the flowers of the lotus plant Tyrian Purple is the colour of the blood that drips from the broken stem The blood of the nymph Lotis. And as you too find yourself rooted to the ground Moving nothing but your upper limbs The wood creeping up and investing your body Your hands filled with leaves Tyrian Purple is the colour of the sap that flows through your veins. Alchemists are Tyrian purple And, strangely enough, so is the wretched occupation of the poet For one day of Tyrian Purple Corresponds to 400 years of human life. [comments] => 2 [counter] => 315 [topic] => 25 [informant] => karl_wiggins [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => MiscPoems )
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