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  • Artemis Poems (IV)
  • Departure
  • Dutiful Wife
  • Eros in Piccadilly
  • Erotisis (Question)
  • Facing Hydra
  • Fair Hermia
  • Homage to Sylvia Plath
  • Homewards
  • Jalousie
  • Letters Home (I)
  • Letters Home (II)
  • Letters Home (III)
  • Letters Home (IV)
  • Letters Home (V)
  • Marriage
  • Masquerade
  • Mystery
  • Old Flame
  • Old Photos
  • Parsifal
  • Parsifal II
  • Persephone to Demeter
  • The Church at Malaucene
  • The Music
  • Train Journey

See also:

  • Changing the story
  • River Work

Poetry / Parsifal II

Parsifal II

The spear, the cross,
Over the water to the holy grail.
You are spilling your seed on the ground
But you think you are in heaven.
 
Is it that man's endeavour
His glorious ascension, out there,
Is it all to avoid
Getting the woman pregnant?

 

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