Ask Priestess Diotima

A Reading:

What divine fervor drives my quill?
Ask Diotima, priestess of Hellenic world.
She will tell you it is Love.  
She will declare to you quite solemnly:
It is The Poetics of Becoming.
It is the creative umbilical drive.
It is the creative feminine urge
that drives some mad,
while turning others into saints—
if not philosophers.
Ask Plato; better yet, ask Socrates,
whereof cometh his wisdom.
He, Socrates, holding symposium…
in dialogue only with men…
With men wisened from fermented grape,
their rational mind in furious pursuit
of shallow, impotent perfection…
Haunted—
Haunted by distaff knowledge,
by the wisdom of their mothers…
Their mothers spindle of knowledge…
of ancient knowledge, ever spinning—
And priestess Diotima, then…
in their own time, even in ours as well,
inviting dialectic conjunction
of polarities—
of matter and of spirit.
Informing us, with feminine eloquence
that the creative spark of poetry…
Plato’s Poetics notwithstanding—
emerges from attraction of polarities…
ever transforming to bring order
out of chaos.
And out of this dialectic composition…
that exceeds any  binary formation—
ever transforming, and being transformed,
is borne the Poetics of Becoming.
Beyond being is Becoming!
Becoming elevates the restless human soul,
to ethereal Olympian realms…
where, even now, Diotima dwells
in heavenly council with the gods.

The Word of a poet.