/lit/'s Tarot

[Tarotanon !lCGB3v20TA No.19456147]

/lit/erary poem-writing exercise for us all!

Okay everyone, here's a fun class project:
we're still working on writing poems about all the tarot cards (esp. the major arcana). we've got 5 completely done to a good level, but consult the list (pic rel) to see which cards still need poems.

Thanks!

[Frater Asemlen !XS8vrClKs2 No.19456168]

An anon asked me to write two poems in another thread, so instead I decided to write three. The following use the kabbalistic correspondences of the tarot. This first poem is the death card, having 13 lines for obvious reasons, the second poem is an acrostic, each line corresponding to each of the major arcana. The third poem which will be the hierophant is not yet done.

Death


Woman with icy face of serpentine,
My eye has frozen on thy wintry gaze,
How inhuman, how devilish thy bloodline
To make a man ignore the holy ways.
Eros it is not, Thanatos it is,
Thy dress of white and phaseless by pallor
Thy face is death thy face is cold, is this
The form of life when robed without color?
Lady death or Dolores or perhaps
Dolorous thy odorless perfumes of
Funereal mist, the grasp of pall wraps
Holding me shameless, lustless without love.
The vision fades and even death must die.


An acrostic

The tree of Parnassus and Paradise
Shall descend as dew the tongue of fires,
Rational of lamb and mystic tiger’s
Qabalistic quadratic sacrifice.

Tzon Tzadik warrior of star
Powerful and wrathful in position,
Over capricious Eyes and tradition
Succumbed as transience’s avatar.

Neglecteth not the thought of naught and death
Most men are bound by graves and water,
Let neither goad away thee from order
Kaleidoscopic’s many whirls of breath.

Yet threefold hidden hermit virgin kens
Temperance from perseverance the stone,
Cherished by fools which become wise enthroned
Zoetic brothers battle both and cleanse.

Veneer of veil unveiled the valley pale
Hellish flame of scepter slave and master,
Diffused sun of rose on alabaster
Grotesque and glorious both must travail.

Behold the one but balanced in the parts,
All and none the one who has but one heart.

[Tarotanon !lCGB3v20TA No.19456171]

>>19456168
>An anon
yes, that was me.
thank you Frater. good as always