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Tyrian Purple

Contributed by karl_wiggins on Sunday, 21st March 2004 @ 10:22:36 AM in AEST
Topic: MiscPoems



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.





Copyright © karl_wiggins ... [ 2004-03-21 10:22:36]
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Re: Tyrian Purple (User Rating: 1 )
by Former_Member on Sunday, 21st March 2004 @ 11:57:54 AM AEST
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Hmm, purple the colour of life. I never would have put that to thought but I suppose it is. Our blood does run purple in our veins. It is peyote, for sure. Rita


Re: Tyrian Purple (User Rating: 1 )
by Whisper on Monday, 22nd March 2004 @ 12:00:33 AM AEST
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HMMMM interesting.

Whisper




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