Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TITANIC LITANY, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT


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First Line: Prometheus! / prototypal christ, pre-crucified
Last Line: Our supine crucifixion.
Subject(s): Humanity; Prometheus; Trotsky, Leon (1879-1940)


Prometheus!
Prototypal Christ, pre-crucified
pushing the invisible
advance upon our pushes upon chaos.
Discoverer and inventor, never let 'em say:
"Human nature cannot change."
Institutor of fire's Sacrament
and outward forms of conscious inner will;
Prometheus!
Forethought of freedom (freedom
for her and him; concrete, in that and this)
Titan, tortured by the tyrant vulture
whom Vulcan riveted as firmly as machines
can rivet laborers to capital;
Prometheus!
O, let it never be said that the human of nature cannot
change. Saul changed to Paul. All saints change
man's nature, as men change nature's change.
Show us in our own acts that we hear our supplication.
Never a Saint is revered who was not reviled
as a rebel. Every rebel, in so far prophet
breeds holy doubt and skeptic faith in deeds'
Melchizedekian Succession.
While boom the double guns of Act and Word,
mutating fire swims through the protestant
blood of Christ, erect above your shadowed rock
Prometheus!
Our supine Crucifixion.




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