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2​-​Ricordo​-​I prize the memory​.​.​.

from Il Suono di Mille Orchestre​-​Parte I by Shamael

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I PRIZE THE MEMORY . .
(C. Baudelaire)
I prize the memory
of naked ages
when
Apollo relished
gilding marble limbs
whose agile-fleshed-originals
achieved
their ecstasy
with neither fraud
nor fear
and nursed by the sky
enjoyed the health
of a sublime machine
Cybele then
abundant in her yield
did not regard
her sons
as burdensome
but tender-hearted she-wolf
graciously
suckled the universe
at her brown dugs
Lithe and powerful
a man deserved
his pride in beauties
who called him their king
flawless fruit
engendered without shame

whose ripened flesh
asked only to be tried!
Today the poet eager to recall
such human splendor

in our corruption we possess
the beauties unrevealed
to ancient times

youth we worship still
its untroubled brow,
its eyes as bright
as water
sacred youth
the scent of flowers
that shares
its song, its scent, its irresistible warmth!

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from Il Suono di Mille Orchestre​-​Parte I, released January 13, 2023

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Funeral doom metal from Brindisi, Italy

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