Does anyone know who wrote this poem of where it comes from?

This was the gods' god,

The leashed divinity,

Divine divining rod

And Me within the me.

By mindlight tower and tree

Its shadow on the ground

Throw, and in darkness she

Whose weapon is her wound

Fends off the knife, the sword,

The Tiger and the Snake;

It stalks the virgin's bed

And bites her wide awake.

Her Bab-el-Mandeb waits

Her Red Sea gate of tears:

The blood-sponge god dilates,

His rigid pomp appears;

Sets in the toothless mouth

A tongue of prophecy.

It speaks in naked Truth

Indifference for me

Love, a romantic slime

That lubricates his way

Against the stream of Time.

And though I win the day

His garrisons deep down

Ignore my victory,

Abandon this doomed town,

Crawl through a sewer and flee.

A certain triumph, of course,

Bribes me with brief joy:

Stiffly my Wooden Horse

Receive into your Troy.

Does anyone know who wrote this poem of where it comes from?norton antivirus

Yep, Phallus by Alec Derwent Hope. I like poetry...Plus, when i did a quick search i saw in his poem 鈥淧hallus,鈥?he rejects the pleasures of sexual relationships and romantic attachment. And this poem is one of his early poems tho...Regards...

Does anyone know who wrote this poem of where it comes from?security

you seem to know a lot of the poem so you probably know who it is by
Alec Derwent Hope
Phallus by Alec Derwent Hope.
Phallus by Alec Derwent Hope
A. D. Hope 1907-2000

(Full name: Alec Derwent Hope) Australian poet, essayist, critic, and editor.
no
sounds like erotic poetry

actually it is by

Alec Derwent Hope

called Phallus