E Y E W E A R, THE BLOG - FREEDOM MEANS BEING UNAFRAID TO WRITE WHAT YOU THINK

It is National Poetry Day in the UK.  To celebrate, I want to offer readers a poem from the significant Canadian poet Robert Priest 's new collection, Previously Feared Darkness .  It is a collection I will be reviewing here before long.  For now, enjoy. Robert Priest, Previously Feared Poet V When Churchill flashed his famous V sign It wasn’t for victory As everyone says It was for vagina For he knew What I know That there is still not enough praise For the vagina He knew that if anything is miraculous The relation between the inside of the vagina And the outside of the penis Is Nixon knew it too Even as he resigned Even as he turned to face the music Of his own destiny He flashed that last V But my friends It was not a sign of peace It was Nixon’s way of saying That the inside of the vagina Is as numinous as it gets This secret is well known The vagina is a sign Without which not a single holy thing May be written...