promiscuous fairies & DIVINE ENCOUNTERS

Ever read or watched Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream?

In Act V, a man named Bottom (as in buttocks) “encounters” promiscuous fairies on a forest stroll. Thinking it a dream, he returns home and boasts that all belief in fantasy is poppycock. Oh, the irony!

I wrote a poem/song which pokes fun at Bottom, who denies the divine after a tangible supernatural experience … 

Seething Shakespeare

Lovers speak strange
from such seething brains.
I will not believe
in contrived fantasy.

Lovers, poets,
and madmen apprehend
more than cool reason
can comprehend.

Maniac's devils,
more than hell can close.
Lover sees beauty
in the slaves of Pharaoh.

Poet's eye a fine frenzy,
rolls from heaven to Earth.
Seething brain bodies forth
joy and freights divine.

A staff is a snake.
A shrub is a snare.