Today we celebrate Lionel Fogarty with this poem “By a Virgin Man”.

Lionel says that people – ‘Mothers, father, brothers, daughters’ – don’t start out as racist but catch the disease from society.  Virgins, like babies, speak pure poetry; the poet is a ‘virgin man’ who purifies the language.  Lionel tells us that this poem has been translated into Dutch by the people who translated the lyrics of the Beatles’ music for the first time in Holland.

By a Virgin Man

Let the the virgins have a say,
    Have a right to write.
Let the blues not be far virgins
Centuries many virgins are healed.
Not all virgins are boys or girls.
Reduce the age of space to the lands’ lovers
Re trench the hurt virgins when the mind is small
    And despair of hearts.
Don’t tragic the virgin’s path
    Man of mad breeds.
All virgins are poets.
Let no woman say they are not
Give the virgin garden of silents
Aloud enough to bring down devils
Of butterflies’ talks.
Let the virgins vote the government out of the entirely
Laws they made.
No episode sun shines without a virgin’s cry in the rainbow
Of moon of lips.
The sexes of virgins are sacred,
Ashes to lasting always was the virgin earth
But the bodies run human transforms.
By a virgin mans

Lionel G Fogarty.