Poetry / A Secret Garden of Eden (Analysis)

The sun of Lucifer emerges on the twilit horizon.
          My hunched, leafless body stays numb on the erected bedrock,
  In the mezzo of the Godforsaken Atlantis of expulsion.
          Elbows on knees and a hand on the chin; Will He quell our planned wedlock?

  Why, when I gaze down at the hooded mistress of Ebony, do I see myself in her?
        To my right there are bushes of red-eyed fists punching forward like the gears of the Titanic.
  Onto the bedrock where my frail bottom is confined, lays the sleeping sister of Satan; her eyes are silver.
        Above me, Peace asks to be protected, despite her possession of a broken cross; what a cynic!

   To my left flows a river of bloody fish fins, upon which a failed fisher of men rests his head, weeping.
        In front of me I watch Joker’s clowns cackle at Socrates; ridiculed for thinking himself so wise.
    I look down again and the randy lips of adulterers swarm near the mistress’ lips, puckering and kissing.
        Uncle Sam outstretches his right hand and grips my neck while his left plucks out my eyes.

     In the bleak darkness I feel with my icy hands the empty sockets of my eyes
        And realize that all along Lucifer raped this world with his devious lies
    

        
  

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I just don’t get ‘leafless’.  I don’t know what that pertains to, but I’d love to know if you have time to explain.  I love ‘fists punching forward like the gears of the Titanic’.  I love that image, but I didn’t understand the first half of the sentence.  But I still love the imagery it portrays.  Okay, I’ve re-read this over and over again,  and I really do believe you have nice images, but I just didn’t understand it.  Can you please tell me what it’s supposed to mean?

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June 13, 2008

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cryptic but clear.  Its poetry ans symbolism.  I get some of it and thats enough.  As for universal appeal I dont see it.

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I really like your poem. It’s daring and filled with a lot of vivid imagery. It has a rather dark undertone to it which I enjoy reading in people’s writings. It forces the reader to pay attention to the lines and think about what is being written. I like it a lot. Kudos to you.

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This has great imagery. I had a tough time with it in the form on this site however. I realize this is not your fault. :) It felt less like poetry and more like a surrealistic memoir.

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