Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, HOLY POEMS: 1, by GEORGE BARKER


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First Line: I am saint john on patmos of my heart
Last Line: Moaning for its apocalyptic home.
Subject(s): Religion; Theology


I am Saint John on Patmos of my heart
Towered and tabernacled with illusion;
Black Michaels and gold Satans stand at hand
Gulling me with their gestures of temptation
To bring me down from the marvelous mountains
Where in Babylonian gardens I find
Spinoza's face hanging from every tree
Murmuring love of all our kith and kind:
Or I feel, cold as a draught on my arm,
The spiralling universe like a worm
Coiling for comfort; and in my mind
The three-winged dove among my dreams
Moaning for its apocalyptic home.




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