Author’s free verse:
TOOTH & NIPPLE
Mother, is it you in absorbing night shadow
hidden as a horrible monster
with gaping mouths from every body orifice?
As I suckled at your breast, you creating and consuming
greedily diminishing even as you nourished
Your sharp-toothed nipple waiting in darkness to swallow me up
Witch, wolf, ogre, dragon, all devouring after death
Digesting, transforming elements
Earth Mother, goddess of fertility, source of all life
Eve, Helen, Sofia, and Mary, all in one being
embodying man loftiest aspects, where is thy incestuously divine embrace?
Spiritual purity does not satisfy my longing hot desire
Have I not worshipped and still find no sweet favor
Do you threaten, smiling with death’s face?
Will knowing you lead to transformation?
Sun God smiles upon temptress Earth Mother
Male scarab self-creation’s sign
once revered, sacred ancient-Egyptian sun-symbol
The beetle driven, ramming, beating, and crushing
rebuilds, transforming death to life
pin a scarab jewel over a mummified hollow
Transform again from death to life
Wheel of Fortune spinning fate’s uncertainty
opposites seeking equilibrium, constructive and destructive
coexisting in alternating dualism, where shall the pointer fall?
Free from Mother Earth
female myth cannot satisfy me
Free from Father Sun
male myth cannot bestow power
Their male and female myths exposed
The mind unimpeded from erroneous emotions
Fate stirs the transformation, now I’ve changed, who am I?
As the opposition of the spinning wheel
Myth: Man only may use destructive power to be strong
Truth: He can also create and be strong
Male destruction and creation can coexist
Thought Transformation: Creativity is not a weakness or solely female
As the opposition of the spinning wheel
Myth: Woman only may use purity to bond mans affections
Truth: She can also be passionate and bond
Female purity and passion may coexist
Thought Transformation: Passion is not a weakness or solely male.
TEARE 1994