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The Argument For Drink
By Craig Kurtz
QuailBellMagazine.com
Akhenaten was ambitious
and he changed the solar system; where art was once didactic, he decreed that it should breathe.
Not content with just that project,
he made worship more tendentious; legislating one god as the sun, he centralized religion. It’s prodigious how one person can exert on history, astronomies of consequence, to make the future rove. Myself, I see a destiny that will in time astound; until then, give me time to think and in the meantime, have a drink. Elizabethan London is where literature matured; the sovereign, being feminine, induced upheavals strange. The merchant classes raised a voice and printers mechanized it; but, more than that, all women did imprint their consciousness. It’s uncanny when personas can align with spinning times and the calendar which marks events does midwife a renaissance. Musing to myself, I see a burgeoning bewildering; but first, I need some time to think and thinking on it, have a drink. Louis Quatorze built Versailles with poetry, ballets and fetes; he patronized aestheticism to outwit his opposition. The court he shaped was arrogant, voluptuous and erudite; all the while, France modernized, with civic law and fiscal codes. Heroes don’t make history, but history can make heroes and sometimes individuals will sing immortal melodies. Craig Kurtz has vexed aesthetic circles since the 1981 release of The Philosophic Collage. Recent work appears in Aerie Literary Journal, Conclave: A Journal of Character, The Criterion: An International Journal in English, Festival Writer, Penmen Review, Penumbra, Red Fez and The Road Not Taken: A Journal of Formal Poetry. #Unreal #Poetry #CraigKurtz #Cheers #IllDrinkToThat #Akhetan #Renaissance #NationalPoetryMonth Visit our shop and subscribe. Sponsor us. Submit and become a contributor. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. CommentsComments are closed.
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