Lorenz

The gardens of Babylon

I remember that spicy breeze migling 

with the solar lemon  sapling 

in the gardens of  Babylon..

The southern gate is closed 

on the bitter  fruits of the night .

 The dream donned the dark armor 

and  swords subdue  poetry ...

The gardeners with promises of bliss

have become merchants in  Venice...

Sem\'s children play war fame 

immolating the virgin ,

tracing on the walls the seal of the beast

with a fertile crescent belly ...

 The cohort of  faithful rats bow before 

the compassionate face of the golden fish ! 

I was born from the moist softness 

of a vegetal  mist ...

Palm and pomegranate trees 

leading over my crib ...

 Waterfall\'s melody telling me 

ancient legends from the enchanted

land of Sumer...

Is happiness nothing more than this madness

that savors itself in the scorching wind 

of a fleeting wind covered by sand 

like a thousand broken mirrors  shattered 

in nostalgia ?

O great Mithra now you have become 

a drunkard mocked by the crowds or Rome ! 

And I am nothing but that pedlar 

of poor nonsens that make fat poodles snicker !

I keep this floral revenge in a ring of Saturn ...

 Nobody knows that the poet always carries 

 a cold taste of death ...

 In these gardens  of  burning brambles 

and thirsty  brushwood where time

stands still ...

 A torn moon calls me with the lament

of unspoken desires ...

 Then the gate of dawn will be open ! 

You will return to me beautiful Semiramis .

I will lead you to the secret groves 

where voices will recount  us 

 the ancient legends of the enchanted 

land of Sumer ! 

Your mouth bitting into the fruit of delights...

  Secret inner gardens .