Thursday Poem

Two Poems by Lola Ridge

Babel

Oh, God did cunningly, there at Babel –
Not mere tongues dividing, but soul from soul,
So that never again should men be able
To fashion one infinite, towering whole.

Electricity

Out of fiery contacts…
Rushing auras of steel
Touching and whirled apart…
Out of the charged phalluses
Of iron leaping
Female and male,
Complete, indivisible, one,
Fused into light.

by Lola Ridge 1873-1941
from Lola Ridge Poems (poetry.com)