I, Cronos (Inspired By The White Goddess Of Robert Graves) Poem by Daniel Brick

One of the most compelling images of Cronos is Goya's horrible painting which shows him eating his children. But one survived, rescued the others and then they re-wrote cosmic history. So Robert Graves relates in his majesterial book, THE WHITE GODDESS. I read it with increasing excitement at its complexity, clarity and coherence. At least that is how it impacted me and many others... at the time.
What Graves reveals is the unity of the mythological history of the Western World from its beginnings in the Middle East, across the Mediterranean, then into the far north, to Ireland and the islands
beyond. And he proves his thesis by using alphabets, linguistics and the earliest form of writing, P-O-E-T-R-Y, all in the service of, under guidance of the true spiritual source of LIFE - The Goddess, symbolized by the moon, therefore, The White Goddess. WOW what an amazing grasp of time and history! At various points in the text, Graves writes that his fingers are itching to write a poem, because that is the heritage of goddess worship. So I followed his lead and wrote this one based on what he tells us about Cronos. It may be that, as his critics claim, much of THE WHITE GODDESS, is fiction, invented by Graves. B-U-T he is one of the great defenders of poetry in the modern world with its rationalism, prosaic prose and lack of the visionary experience. And he is so persuasive. Besides what isn't fiction? The issue is really - choose your fiction carefully, or someone else will impose theirs on you.