Bacchus Poem by Terence George Craddock (Spectral Images and Images Of Light)

Who was Bacchus

and why
was he

the most
celebrated of the gods?

Bacchus is the Greek name
of the Roman god Dionysus

the god of the vine
the god of inspiration
bestower of ecstasy
and ecstatic liberation.

What was sacred
to Bacchus?

The grape, ivy and rose
were sacred to Bacchus.

Why was Bacchus so popular?

Bacchus
the god of wine
was worshiped
with orgiastic
ecstatic rites.


Yes people still love
a party excessive
indulgence in
activity emotion

the pleasure palace
of delight still entices

as Bob Dylan said
'everybody must get stoned'
reality escape ever popular

"sacred drugs of society
changing with cultures
throughout cultures
throughout history"

What became of Bacchus
in the later Hellenistic era?

As Dionysus he was
the most loved of the gods
the greatest deity
of the later Hellenistic world.

Why?

Because
he supposedly
taught men
to escape

the confines
of their personalities
in an age before
Sigmund Freud.

How?

By yielding
to the ecstasy
of natural forces

which permitted
people to know
the deepest mysteries

of their gods.

Ha. Sounds like
another hallucinogenic
drug trip

orgy free sex festival
like remembered
1960s hippy stereotypes.

I shall harken back
through more ancient
pages of memorial time

to Genesis
book of Prophet Moses
as revealed by

the One True God

Creator of Heaven and Earth
who wrote the fabric of design
through DNA laws of physics

upon this his immense
awesome universe
everything is his creation.


See also the poems ‘Latest Drugs On The Street' and ‘Dregs Have Flown'.
Copyright © Terence George Craddock