The Venusian Arts

[Magpie]

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The Venusian Arts

They gather round at six
to swap malevolence
and fortify eager
souls for the brutal hunt.
A song for Baphomet.
A poem to Lucifer.


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The Venusian Arts

They gather round at six
to swap malevolence
and ready their eager
souls for the brutal hunt.
A song for the Devil.
A poem to Lucifer.

[milo]

The Venusian Arts

They gather round at six
to swap malevolence
and ready their eager
souls for the brutal hunt.
A song for the Devil.
A poem to Lucifer.

I don't think you need "their"

I like the interesting contrast between the Devil and Lucifer.  Could even go further by picking one of the other devils like Baphomet or something

[Smiley]

Love is a beautiful thing..

[Magpie]

The Venusian Arts

They gather round at six
to swap malevolence
and ready their eager
souls for the brutal hunt.
A song for the Devil.
A poem to Lucifer.

I don't think you need "their"

I like the interesting contrast between the Devil and Lucifer.  Could even go further by picking one of the other devils like Baphomet or something

Thanks, you're right about 'their' it's better without it, I was going for six syllables a line but I can easily remedy that.

I like the idea of using Baphomet as well.

I'll be back with an edit.

Cheers

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Love is a beautiful thing..

Indeed,

cheers for reading

[wasellajam]

The Venusian Arts

They gather round at six
to swap malevolence
and ready their eager
souls for the brutal hunt.
A song for the Devil.
A poem to Lucifer.

Ugh, learn something the fuck new every day.

[rowens]

The Devil's Party is a line of love and agon.

Lucifer as Cosmic Bliss nihilism, Ahriman as Earthy Weighty obsession.

Yet, these Figures can be coerced to swerving in your lane.

The Lost Kids tell the story of the sky, of Venus Love, during the darkness of Ahriman getting confused and redeemed as Lucifer, only to be outshined by the Sun (and you have 6, which is the prime solar number), which is opposed by Satan.

The Great Hunt is done by both the Devil and the Good Neighbors (who are corresponded with 7).

Being stuck in these eloquent patterns gives them power.

You can play songs on your guitar. You have power in their register. The Key you play in both temporarily possesses areas of your brain, and gives you their power. Who's who?

[Magpie]

The Venusian Arts

They gather round at six
to swap malevolence
and ready their eager
souls for the brutal hunt.
A song for the Devil.
A poem to Lucifer.

Ugh, learn something the fuck new every day.

one of the side effects of life,

we got two poems from it though.

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The Devil's Party is a line of love and agon.

Lucifer as Cosmic Bliss nihilism, Ahriman as Earthy Weighty obsession.

Yet, these Figures can be coerced to swerving in your lane.

The Lost Kids tell the story of the sky, of Venus Love, during the darkness of Ahriman getting confused and redeemed as Lucifer, only to be outshined by the Sun (and you have 6, which is the prime solar number), which is opposed by Satan.

The Great Hunt is done by both the Devil and the Good Neighbors (who are corresponded with 7).

Being stuck in these eloquent patterns gives them power.

You can play songs on your guitar. You have power in their register. The Key you play in both temporarily possesses areas of your brain, and gives you their power. Who's who?

I think I'm a bit of 'cosmic bliss nihilism' sometimes.

I was actually thinking of using 'Abraxas' in this poem which I know you have used in your stuff. I know Abraxas from Hermann Hesse book Demian. For Hesse Abraxas represented both good and evil, opposites, which fits in with what you've said in ' Lucifer as Cosmic Bliss nihilism, Ahriman as Earthy Weighty obsession.' and in ' The Great Hunt is done by both the Devil and the Good Neighbors'.
Abraxas also has seven letters each representative of the classical planets.
seven is interesting for music scales.
Have you heard about when they changed standard pitch from A-436Hz to A-440Hz, they changed it for mathematical reasons, but a lot of people believe they shifted to a more 'evil' pitch as a form of mind control. 
I'm at 435Hz it has more maverick overtones.

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Edit up, changed a couple of things.

[rowens]

I always play out of tune.

Nemesis is my Figure for what I call Situational Appropriations and Transfigurations. She is an example of that, and enforces that.

One of the most powerful things about early Genesis and myths is that they make their own sense. The Jungian and Classical stuff codifies, which is necessary as much as getting out of that is.

I'm a fan of both/and. I see that in the Temple of Set, they have the Objective and Subjective Universes, the first is the shared one, the second is the one each person lives based on their own alterations, innovations and personal codes. I like that sense of eating my cake while I have it: earth gives me ingredients or people make a cake for me, and I eat it as I play with it, food of the gods.

If you can balance the Objective Universe, your Subjective and everyone else's Subjective, you can also balance self and no-self, you can also have nonsense which requires sense to have any distinction; and you can have Affect, whether you have any codes or not, but cultural aspects spice things up as well as anything, so why not?

As Baphomet is a nice Shadow-Figure who only looks evil if you are in a culture where such a figure looks evil, or there are any evil or taboos or inherited reactions to serpents and horns and darkness; also there is, for poetry, the saving grace of being able to make the 't' at the end silent or not. The 't' is also the last letter of the Hebrew Aleph-Beth, which is also the first letter. And there you have the ouroboros. That's where Abraxas comes in for me, Abraxas has to do with time, for me. All times and places are here and now; that was a trick to get past my obsessions with projecting possibilities into the future or regretting the past, if everything is here and now, then I'm only, if at all, Responsible for my present Joy, which will be in the future if I stick to it. And since Joy alone is boring, your Cosmic Nihilism, that's fine, because Venus, or Inanna as I prefer, is Love and War, aka: Romance.


I would critique your "malevolent", but, as Venus is a benefic or whatever they call it, using the "opposite" works.