Before being devoted to the labour movement, May Day was an old Celtic celebration of spring and fertility, Beltane; throughout the centuries it evolved, with the maypole dancing by girls and the election of the May Queen, but it kept its hidden symbolism of youthful love. Crowley’s poem gives it back its ancient pagan meaning. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Mon cœur est un immense clavier dont les mots sont les touches, et ma tendresse et ma peine et ma passion de la musique y jouent pour moi. Ce n’est pas de ce clavier-là que je rêve, c’est de celui de ma forêt.
— Minou Drouet, Lettre à Élise Nat, Arbre, mon ami, p. 99
Minou (Marie-Noëlle) Drouet, née le 24 juillet 1947, connut un immense succès dans la deuxième moitié des années 1950 grâce à ses poèmes écrits entre ses six et douze ans. Elle fut également l’objet de violentes controverses dans les médias et les milieux littéraires. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Hilda Conkling (October 8, 1910 — June 26, 1986) was an American poetess, who composed all her poetry between the ages of four and fourteen. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
I present again an erotic poem from White Stains. For Aleister Crowley, love is passionate, intense, erotic, but always short-lived, as he repeats “we must part, and love must die.” CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Ô roses de sang, fleurs immaculées, vos jeux innocents dévorent mon cœur.
Jolie petite étoile aux quatre mille nuits,
M’offrant un beau visage où un sourire luit,
La sublime fleur bleue scintillant dans vos yeux,
Voilà le délice d’amour le plus précieux.
Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) was an English occultist and writer, but foremost a libertine and a very bizarre man. Beside writing strange books, he created cults of which he was the guru. The British popular press called him “the wickedest man in the world.” CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Les mots écarlates de l’amour, les couleurs de la passion, nos cœurs enflammés… nous ne dormirons pas ce soir, le crépuscule éveillera l’oiseau du désir. Vole, vole éternellement, désir ailé.
Ma belle, mon amie, douce fleur de lune,
A connu trois mille sept cent cinquante nuits.
M’offrant son sourire, doux baiser de prune,
Elle m’a regardé, voici qu’elle me suit.
For years, Dan and Mary Peterson were inseparable. Then at age 80, Mary went to hospital for a heart condition, and she died there after 35 days. Taken by surprise, 82-year-old Dan fell into a deep depression. For six months he didn’t know what to do with himself. Day after day, he spent time staring out at the squirrels in his garden and remembering his wife’s favourite flower: white roses. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Suppose that you manage a website devoted to dogs, discussing everything about their life, health and happiness, giving advice on how to groom them, advertising dog events and contests, all with beautiful photographs of nice dogs on each page. Then someone comes and says that you hyper-sexualize dogs, that your site is a zoophile’s paradise. You will rightfully reply that the perversion lies only in that person’s mind, as your interest in dogs is friendly but not sexual, and you just want to share it with others. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
The explorer and ethnologist Peter Freuchen (1886–1957) spent a large part of his life in Northern Greenland, exploring it in depth, trading with Inuits and making friends with them. He even married an Inuit girl, Navarana. Living in the most hostile environment in earth, Inuits held a very pragmatic point of view on many matters. In particular, they considered marriage as an economic and family association between a man and a woman, based on solidarity, but without any commitment to conjugal fidelity in relation to love or sex; often men lent their wives to other men, or borrowed their wives, or swapped wives with them, for purely utilitarian motives; they could also see their wives prostituting themselves to Europeans as a good business. Such exchanges were generally decided by husbands; as hunters feeding their family, they considered themselves as superior to women. Inuit men were basically macho, proud of their manly ways. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
