La flors enversa

I dedicate this rendition to all those who live that timeless revolutionary adage, that makes one fearless and shatters despair and ennui. Ennui, that ugly beast Baudelaire thought the true Devil: Love in the face of danger.

Poetry, UncategorizedGods&RadicalsDecember 1, 2018translationComment

A Radioactive Wolf Scrolling

A radioactive wolf near Chernobyl
is now looking at your Instagram account. From Rune Kjær Rasmussen

Poetry, Cultural Commentary, Environmentalism, Stories, UncategorizedRune Kjær RasmussenNovember 28, 2018Comment

The New Sun

For empires crumble as I’ve been told, and in the rib-caged wreckage of gray leviathans I may glimpse some hint of the blueprint of this shared corruption. I may come to comprehend why I could never mend my own desolation. I may erase my station. - From Christopher Scott Thompson

The Martyrs

“No cluttered shelves with hanging altar cloths will ever save us. Nor will any ancient yellow poster of some killer angel explain the stain of sin or let us in on the secret of how Christ forgave us and how at last our cause must win.”

Poetry, Pagan AnarchismChristopher Scott ThompsonOctober 10, 2018SURREALIST PROPHECIESComment

Wage-Slave in the Wasteland

The fisher king was never healed, they never meant for us to heal him. They only meant to conceal what we’d been fed, so they concealed him.

Expert Opinion

a poem from Rex Butters

Poetry, Politics, Reclaiming, Stories, UncategorizedGods&RadicalsAugust 30, 2018children, doctors, drugs, heroine, life, medicine, Technology Comment

Junkyard Nemeton

“This forest, or another forest - forests without end. As faith retreats and reason sleeps those times shall come again.”

Animism, PoetryChristopher Scott ThompsonAugust 8, 2018SURREALIST PROPHECIESComment

The Songs I Know

The Spirit of the Depths had shown me how to awaken the dead,How to bring forth the lost memories of the dream world

Tornado Warning

“But there is a king: his name is Lludd. They call him the Once and Future King.”

Poetry, AnimismChristopher Scott ThompsonJuly 11, 2018SURREALIST PROPHECIESComment

Down, Down to Troy Town

But with what desperation do we seek to deny the cycles of time! That it were not so is the dearest wish of humanity. Any catastrophe imaginable would be preferable to the secrets hidden in Troy Town.

Put Reason Back to Sleep

“The future will have a place for neither faith nor reason.”

Animism, PoetryChristopher Scott ThompsonJune 13, 2018SURREALIST PROPHECIESComment

Beasts Must Stick Together

Said the old beast to the young: Unless you make a hollow of yourself. There will be no room for the gods to dwell inside of you.

Ancestors, Animism, Gods, Poetry, Uncategorizedramon elaniMay 24, 2018 Comments

The House of Cold Rain

To join our essence and consciousness with the world was once the common inheritance of humanity. Now, it can only be found in the hinterland, the lands beyond. Beyond techno-industrial society. For what is there to join with in concrete and steel?

Manifesto for a Simple Life

a poem from Twm Gwynne

Cultural Commentary, Environmentalism, Land, Poetry, UncategorizedTwm GwynneMay 8, 2018earth, life, LoveComment

Uber Alles

A poem about (sub)urban youth, political carelessness, contradictions and the criminal justice system. (From Rex Butters)

Why Are We All In This Handbasket?

The crust peels back and all-women are looking into a burning pit of rage…

Community, Cultural Commentary, PoetrycrowjudithFebruary 28, 2018#MeToo, behaviour, hopes, humanity, life, Work Comments

The Striptease That Was Blamed on Abū Bakr’s Naughty Son

In an age where all our movements and words are tracked, and in which internet call-out culture and aggressive trolls make it difficult for any would-be dissident to express viewpoints that fall outside of party lines, it seems timely to be reminded of the poetry of Al-Andalus and in particular that of arguably its most saucey knave