Never fear, my soul, when cold winds blow
I reign in gold over fields of ether
I’ve done my years in the captive’s cage
Now I’m bursting fresh upon the world
I have no interest in frailties or need
Only in expressing phrased colors of truth
Pouring salt into this man shaped wound
Sensing a new glory beneath his surface
Moments glisten in the sun’s yellow light
As I pursue the path, treading the dawn
The pyramids of youth rise before me
Pointing the upward way with emeralds
Toward the leaping light which never sleeps
Come live with joy, dwell in eternity, now!
Journeyman, early born, untimely anachronism
Embrace this onward rush, of life from afar!
AN OPEN ENDED , EXPERIMENTAL, STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS FORAY INTO CREATIVE WRITING.
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Saturday, February 27, 2010
Cant Play It Safe
I'm restless and blissfully alone
I'm the boy that time forgot
Planted precariously on the high wall
Can you hear me? I can never play it safe
My quivering, emergent leaves are red
Hand painted with my own life-blood
Prayers tossed carelessly to the sky
Set free for their moment upon the wind
The complacent, glibly accuse my life
Knowing not, I'm their freedom's cry
Soon forgotten inside mansions quiet
Along with all the powers of light
I'll bring you pleasant, aching shadows
Light, longing in the face of innocence
Chasing mists, while the world lies sleeping
Dance with me along the beams of infinity
I'm the boy that time forgot
Planted precariously on the high wall
Can you hear me? I can never play it safe
My quivering, emergent leaves are red
Hand painted with my own life-blood
Prayers tossed carelessly to the sky
Set free for their moment upon the wind
The complacent, glibly accuse my life
Knowing not, I'm their freedom's cry
Soon forgotten inside mansions quiet
Along with all the powers of light
I'll bring you pleasant, aching shadows
Light, longing in the face of innocence
Chasing mists, while the world lies sleeping
Dance with me along the beams of infinity
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Stormy capricorn
Stormy capricorn, spraying lewdly scrawled graffiti
Spanning abyss's, bridging the falling deep Rubicon
Logos of banqueting kings, slogan of languishing jesters
Evolving secret door, shadowed clouds opening
Wolfish tongue unforgiven, sheepskinned renegade outlaw
Chorus line's featured orator, unbowed genie's apparition
Tabooed roustabout bold as crashing brass
Flaming sword's pure unmalleable nettle
Ruthless crusading troubador, serenading
Holy warrior charging windmills, undaunted
Spanning abyss's, bridging the falling deep Rubicon
Logos of banqueting kings, slogan of languishing jesters
Evolving secret door, shadowed clouds opening
Wolfish tongue unforgiven, sheepskinned renegade outlaw
Chorus line's featured orator, unbowed genie's apparition
Tabooed roustabout bold as crashing brass
Flaming sword's pure unmalleable nettle
Ruthless crusading troubador, serenading
Holy warrior charging windmills, undaunted
Lucent signal fires
Lucent signal-fires, falling light's seeded glimmers
Captured succor, my adoration's sole requirement
Hallowed stronghold's luminous measured abandon
Floating starry skies, trek-less endless worlds
Past stellar paradise's seventh heaven
Blazing comets, protective sword of Damocles
Wandering Illuminati, creation's providential children
Radiant paramours, streaking, flashing libertines
Life's lustrous cadence, ruthless and irrepressible
Prudence cast to the laughing light's madness
Writhing celestial's, exalted life's preeminence
Babeled edifice
Complimenting the imperative, glorious now
Creating order, our stilled consciousness permeating
Unformed chaos, the origin of possibilities
Parasites all around, unconsciousness draining life
Feeding on the shimmering faces of wakened others
Taking all, giving nothing back, true evil epitomized
Bloody twin, untimely born, grasping humanities heel
Mark upon mark,rule upon rule,our babbled edifice rises
Darkened monolith, penetrating heavens virgin womb
Worlds spinning, webbed ages, karmic entanglements
On and on and on, blasphemies of balance and equilibrium
Clay underdogs
Wandering vapor trails, zagging to skeptical rhythms
Truth stealing moments, cruel as lovers scorned
Clutched awl, piercing infinity's leathery heart
Capricious heavens, huntsman's horn, hunting call
Desperate paupers scaling guarded castle walls
Gargoyle and swan, masquerade ball's sporting theme
Shared jester's fate, Victorian and philistine
Whirling gaggle, frightened, frenzied throng
Restless clanging, relentless hammer and gong
Purgatory's anvil, resounding, soul’s dark night
Tolling bells, signaling, dawn's breaking light
Tattered raptures
All is wind and breathless abandon
Spellbindingly wrapped in tattered raptures
Cruel crush of flesh, besieged sapiens
My seamless robe, shredded, flapping
Ripped veil hiding, my restless deep
Gritted, seething, unblinking salt
Gasping whore, freedom's torn maiden
Mythic soul searching for reasons
Naked flight to dawn's far shore
Wretched apparel lays discarded
Filthy rags, my soul's poor catalyst
Threadbare nude, smiling at last
Spellbindingly wrapped in tattered raptures
Cruel crush of flesh, besieged sapiens
My seamless robe, shredded, flapping
Ripped veil hiding, my restless deep
Gritted, seething, unblinking salt
Gasping whore, freedom's torn maiden
Mythic soul searching for reasons
Naked flight to dawn's far shore
Wretched apparel lays discarded
Filthy rags, my soul's poor catalyst
Threadbare nude, smiling at last
Omnipresent deja vu
Care free spring’s youthful dalliance courted
Riding furies through time’s restless portal
Hail Bacchus! Make laughing love, immortal
Romantic's realm, abode of fabled cherubs
Angels playing revelry for eternal celebrants
Trance dancers, throbbing, ravers ecstatic
Mad monks, surfing endless waves, forever
Riddled with cupid's drunken arrows
Second attention's besotted concerto
Hallowed deja vu's blind artistry
Fallowed earth's sodden sure alchemy
Slow dancing to sound bites
Prefaced by denuded adoration
Alabaster pure linens tainted
Too good for this dusty enclave
World's fallen stars prison house
Mad hatters pawns, enraptured stars
Rendezvous with intimated destinies
And the numbing stealthy refrains
Ethereal voices, calling marvels
Previewing dawn and seasons past
The rude awakening forfeiting
Glistening chrysalis metamorphosed
Unknown trajectories open ended trek
Midnight's escape through black holes
Oblivion's alloyed outstretched palm
Five pointed star begging to be read
Resurrection of a thousand phantasmal
Barren generations enthralled minions
Within deadly mediocrity's timeline
Pedestrian enclave's sure anathema
Devoid of light and life's outrage
Sure predecessor's blighted fantasia
Forbidden inquisitor, outfoxed in plain sight
Rosetta stone found hidden in chaos
Ruinous calculations, triangulated position
Captured light's circuitous energy
Synergistic overload, problematic charge
Synchronicities coincidence realized
Dancing man of sorrows
Dancing man of sorrows, astonishing sight
Cool brow, in a fevered age ignited
Startling oxymoron, paradoxical truth
Premonitions of a glorious morrow ruthless
The lowliest vale shall elevate preeminent
Surpassing the blue sky’s unimaginable limit
There warm sun shines through the cold rain
Even the unholy shall be supernaturally graced
Where every dark sorrow, vile imagined slight
Shall be banished forever from this pale blue dot
Till all is radiated glorious light
Shining bright and stilled, amid the trembling night
Cool brow, in a fevered age ignited
Startling oxymoron, paradoxical truth
Premonitions of a glorious morrow ruthless
The lowliest vale shall elevate preeminent
Surpassing the blue sky’s unimaginable limit
There warm sun shines through the cold rain
Even the unholy shall be supernaturally graced
Where every dark sorrow, vile imagined slight
Shall be banished forever from this pale blue dot
Till all is radiated glorious light
Shining bright and stilled, amid the trembling night
Sealed womb
Take flight, My winged heart of fancy
Hovering, poised, over the yielded rainbow
Arcing diver, spinning theatrical romantic
My deepened, thrusting soul, entranced
Shimmering iron, my tubular readiness, barred
Sealed womb, foiling penetration, clamped
Zooming mystic, discarded, silent zygote
Adamant universe's stoic, miscarried light
Rushing polyphonous wind, cresting, calling
Renaming me, newborn universal levite
Sequenced light, life's coded re-creation
Bold new paradigm, reconstituted, fervent
Hovering, poised, over the yielded rainbow
Arcing diver, spinning theatrical romantic
My deepened, thrusting soul, entranced
Shimmering iron, my tubular readiness, barred
Sealed womb, foiling penetration, clamped
Zooming mystic, discarded, silent zygote
Adamant universe's stoic, miscarried light
Rushing polyphonous wind, cresting, calling
Renaming me, newborn universal levite
Sequenced light, life's coded re-creation
Bold new paradigm, reconstituted, fervent
Loveliness Is Thy Female Form
A beauty that's unequalled still
The sound of my heart, in your absence
Is just empty, hissing noise
O, but in your thrall ecstatic!
All gods’ creatures stand and shout
We dance, arms wide, on mountaintops
With the cunning love of consumation
I'm a king upon your outspread charms
A gasping cry from azure Heaven
I wash into your garden, breaking
A wave upon your gleaming bosom
Once Upon A Summer's Sun
lasooing a shooting star
Hailing the bounty we shared,
Once under a summer’s sun
There upon your flesh,
I staked my new-found-land
Midst the presence of sky
And thunderous exclamations
I have no repentant sorrow
That Adam has known his Eve
Though now I leave for other lands
Hope torn along the dotted line
She Shimmers With Heat
Her slow pressured pleasure melting
Spilling Fragrance onto my earth
She's the brown hands of my damp soul
She shines with desire of princes
Hot Venus splayed like swaying trees
An open book, each page well thumbed
Hot lover bathed in pools of bliss
She rode underneath, rising high
Glazed and flush, gossiping of Eve
Fanning the blazing summer's flame
Her honeyed womb dripping with gold
The Wind Cries Your Name
The wind is blowing again my friend
Who kisses the dawn with peace
Trailing hope as she sails onward
Her lightning bids me forward
Pure object of celestial birth
Full of clouds and golden lyres
A spreading miracle filling time
Whose lingering ecstacy awes
The valley rings with power
Full of the desire of ages
Reflected in reluctant moons
The deep cycle sighs complete
Under the zenith of burnt offerings
Filled with countless hopes and dreams
Blush not, hold them higher still
No farewell kiss shall brush your lips
Rivers of Desire
where raging love once gasped
Sweet bliss of another life
effervescent swirl of flesh
dancing memories upon nirvana's
soul of wet and parted clouds
Sentinel rising from the depths
Enticing us with changing rules
A mellowed haze of ecstacy
Stolen intoxicating sweets
Come my love, come, breathlessly
Soar on wings of consummation
A droplet running down the walls
Upon the sheer cliffs of ecstacy
Braced moaning against the rocks
Hidden deep in pleasured clefts
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Awake the thousand days of love
Awake the thousand days of love
Toast their golden chaliced bounty
Of spirit wind’s bold sacrifice
Upon a cold and brambled altar
Invisible and ancient race
Kings and queens of an empty court
In wonder surging over earth
And dark recesses of pale sky
At this feast lit by morning stars
Love dwells with full measure of life
And deep inside this veil of stone
A shadow flies across the Sun
There the quenched fire of dreamless nights
Spellbound by bright and blinding light
Foreshadowing the waxing dawn
Shall release all bridled passion
Toast their golden chaliced bounty
Of spirit wind’s bold sacrifice
Upon a cold and brambled altar
Invisible and ancient race
Kings and queens of an empty court
In wonder surging over earth
And dark recesses of pale sky
At this feast lit by morning stars
Love dwells with full measure of life
And deep inside this veil of stone
A shadow flies across the Sun
There the quenched fire of dreamless nights
Spellbound by bright and blinding light
Foreshadowing the waxing dawn
Shall release all bridled passion
I"m a river flowing
My deep echoes with joyous laughter
I fear to look too closely within
Lest those bright waves disappear
I am no Solitude in refined attire
I call to those held in fiery palms
Who rage in crashing deed and woe
Things we deny and disguise for fear
I stand as a flower in some distant meadow
Bound on this unenviable bed of anguish
Bearing the rustling of tangled trees
Beyond the mountains and far away
I call to arms, wearing only a paper crown
A single sifted grain, am I, courtesy of the sand
By the gale I’m blown against my roots
No more than a glimmer, to the rainbow’s end
Excaliber's blade
With wings of my soul and a God in the gleam
Tell me to smile for the children of the air
I go to meet their mortal sting and dream of clay and sky
Oh! I am pierced! By sure Excalibur’s blade
In thrust and parry of heart his shaft hold's forth truth
There are found the sweetest sighs, inhaling holiness
Please, tell me, O God, timeless amber truths
This heart, this man's soul, I have often poorly shared
For I can never repay, all that I have is broken and gone
Cognizant of calm and new, I close my own bright self
As the moth draws nearer, dancing with distant heat
Why the ending of love and the sweetness thereof?
When just around the corner woeful winter turned tail
Fall on the sky and cry, ‘I AM’! For what else can we seek?
I hold life's lone mystery and alone with God reside
When is there another time? If I hide my heart, and fear
Yesterday’s shoreline my wandering thoughts refuse to cross
The late afternoon air begins once more to ease my yearning
Whispering echoes of eternity, whitewaters of love's desire!
The grass blissfully sings
The smoke of proud passing beauty
The glory of stoic leafless trees
Foolishly laughed at in plain sight
O holy song of evening breath
Wake my face from stony sleep
Fly me to the wintry mountains
All creatures are but fragile glass
Our infant wings stir the quiet
While the grass blissfully sings
Hymns of weeping at noontime
Drowning in the flood of light
That's when worlds innumerable
Rising, spread fire air-ward
Faint lights on the valley floor
Universal man, leaping for joy
Chameleon of the moment
Time devours my simple space
Its pale hands stealing the present
And holding me in opaque thrall
Denying my highest dharma
I'm a rebel of passing autumn
An innocent spinning gold
Capturing fleeting transcendence
An evolving angel's Soul
I'm running back to where I saw
High above the silent drones
Tomorrow’s dreams nailed to the sky
I grasped them lest they slip beyond
They noticed not the wonder shown
Raw lightening held within my palm
I tasted of unspeakable things
A Chameleon of the moment
Runs With Wolves
When the light within forgets your name
When mistakes and imperfections multiply
When the way is not clear, wait with hope
Learn the futitlity of self abasement
Embrace your sins, turn not away
For of such is built the city of angels
Each false step bringing power to your song
How oft neglected, the left hand path
Which in truth, we all part way travel
While most bask in self satisfaction
The alternate road remains unused
If chased and driven from every town
Then to the river with head held high
If barred from the river, then to the sea!
No disgraced animal, but a leader of men
Let every bland pawn, prophesy his destiny
Ruminating with oblivious, bovine ease
As for me, always the restless carnivore
I must be free to run with wolves!
I wished upon a falling tear
Resounding a pity who’s unheard Strains
Silenced a thousand instruments Of delight
With melancholy airs
O Autumn, laden with sweet mournfulness
Calmly I lay my spinning head
At the golden feet of your earth
And wipe away the dust of ages
My little sorrows are drowning
In the sound Of thunderous waters
Dissolving my heavy chains of vanity
I found holy chasteness under your sky
Hailing eternity with full choir
I marveled through gardens of delight
Dreaming a world that is fully awake
Where children of the morn yet soar
Rusty Iron
The noise of living growth against rusty iron
Blasphemous like an inverted crucifix
Just a clanging shutter [says the iron]
A dissipation of energy turned outward
A glittering constellation of sucking breath
That bright flickering flame of infancy
Rude empires reaching toward horizons
Freedom echoing down the open road
Like a newborn song eager to conquer
They pull aside the curtain called wonder
Celebrating, midst the constancy of iron
Singers of holy melodies yet unwritten
Blasphemous like an inverted crucifix
Just a clanging shutter [says the iron]
A dissipation of energy turned outward
A glittering constellation of sucking breath
That bright flickering flame of infancy
Rude empires reaching toward horizons
Freedom echoing down the open road
Like a newborn song eager to conquer
They pull aside the curtain called wonder
Celebrating, midst the constancy of iron
Singers of holy melodies yet unwritten
Feel Once More With Me
The wind is light; our course unplotted and fair
For never sun and joy, the stars that were born seeing
My Smile of care, and wandering earth herself afar
Till the shifting soil of life belies our remedies
And somewhere, inside me, I declare we have won
I could dance and live and act, now, as long, long ago
Although you dared to breathe the darkness, never fear
All is gazeless beauty, tightly wound, maddening splendor
Listen, restless, musical voice of spinning prayer wheels
Behold where true Love composed the world’s farewell
Among the longing Isles and many a silent sea arising
I salute the springs of yesteryear, her single deathless rose
And many thoughts passed away there with dismal sheen
I saw that glow, the sinewy thread my life has assembled
Unknown fleeting shadows, dim vales- and nothing more
Lambency
I step outside of god’s guarded flock
And thru the rain call my own name
Riding the tide for several moments
The screaming songs of man fly by
Broken winged, but I taste them not
For I’m derived from fire and my
Wild flame burns still uncontained
I worship alone, where xanadu was born
Traveling, cloaked in the darkness
Unseen king disguised as a pawn
Crowned with toil and loving touch
Revealing my deep lambent light
Others gaze, feigning deep passion
I spit and follow the wandering sun
The sum of all days filling my soul
Arise My Love
Be the rude unrepentant spectacle
The consummation of ruthless mercy
Like a hermit drunk with solitude
Yearn for the warm embrace of life
Keeping pace with your halting dance
Of a hope not contingent on this space
See how unafraid you can become!
As you look longingly toward the dawn
Know the sun is but controlled chaos
A flame contorting your slumbering awe
As you sit in silence, shorn of wonder
Glutted with the slow sentiment of a beast
Mere phantom whose pale beauty speaks
Volumes to the unhealed grievous wound
That sacred majesty which bears all being
cognizant absurdity
Yearning to reach the deep
Aching for envelopment
My stunted selves, shunned
Shelved like so much chattel
To recapitulate all personas
Into the grand synthesis
Yet what is accomplished?
“I“ is such convenient fiction
A momentary stoppage
Stepping stone in the stream
Necessary for comprehension
But ultimately ephemeral
I watch myself unfold, for what?
All is such tremendous mystery
Thoughts arise from unknown depths
Surprising me, their author
What pompous, fallacious nonsense
As if this sensate bundle exists
Apart and wholly without cause
I belly laugh that thought into oblivion
Aching for envelopment
My stunted selves, shunned
Shelved like so much chattel
To recapitulate all personas
Into the grand synthesis
Yet what is accomplished?
“I“ is such convenient fiction
A momentary stoppage
Stepping stone in the stream
Necessary for comprehension
But ultimately ephemeral
I watch myself unfold, for what?
All is such tremendous mystery
Thoughts arise from unknown depths
Surprising me, their author
What pompous, fallacious nonsense
As if this sensate bundle exists
Apart and wholly without cause
I belly laugh that thought into oblivion
Uneasy balance
I want to see all! I’m curiosity personified
The sole purpose of life?
Evolution of consciousness!
I need input, experience
To justify my existence
Any fool can play statue!
How long can you hold?
The same, lame position
You misguided zealot
Mistaken guardian of truth
I’m ruthless in my scorn
For your deadened, leadened
Smugness in the face of mystery
Your repudiation of our calling
Our sole overarching purpose
To learn from life itself
As for me, I’m clueless, without assumptions
Ignorant and eager as a newborn
Each moment receptive to my reality
Perceiving all, in unending process
After all, life is process, ever changing, unfolding
Walking the thin red line between
Continuation and oblivion
With no assurances, no guarantees
Come for awhile and walk with me
Lust for life
Be not indignant at this intrusion
Nor with reticent rage push away
Gasp instead, in the heated embrace
We’re the golden mistress
Brimming with coded messages
Envoys of erotic hunger
Life lusts for us like a lover
The hot, thick breath of ravishment
Needs you to join this eternal dance
This writhing, purple passion
Of the momentary cosmic swirling
Grasp the universe’s mirrored horn
Preen in its reflective surfaces
Slide across the adamant expanses
Do this and suns shall bow their knee
The heretic of sand and foam
Love life in all its wielded splendor
And freedom's wind redeeming
This lost heretic of sand and foam
I chiseled the near face of god
Whose sinewy hands, bore the Grail
Held high with thirsting fingertips
A new world waiting to be born
Wild fruitful dreams and longing prayers
Sifted and pure, by infinitude
Defying time's envelopment
The long goodbye's relentless grace
Lucent epiphany
I saw heaven on earth, a lucent epiphany
Through the momentary pauses of clouds
Water, fire, air, the stars, revealed in full joy
Stilled before the dancing rocks, I
Delighted in the innocent face of nature
Enlightened midst life's noisiest hour
I changed perspectives, casting no shadows
Now I cry for the eternal lies of uneasy sprawl
Those betrayed by false pleasures, loud and gone
I talk of being, praying under a wide moon
Blushing, fully awake with life, mystic son
Tangle of thorns
I'm a piper sitting beneath the gates of iron
I’m stilling the winds, chaining myself to heaven
While clashing earth razes the temples of solitude
Whose pinnacles soar, skyward, like points of a star
While I dream of paradise with shining eyes of hope
The journey and I, two souls standing as One
Lone beating heart, our breath intermingled
Rushing out into a day full of cruel talons
Reinventing the wheel that birth bestowed
Every wound strengthening my determination
My pale fire roaring like the sound of many waters
Delight in the cycle of my drum
Breathe its pure raptured rhythms
The finger of god ever closer
Dancing like the rising phoenix
Gawking at the glory of kings
This world is blind and cannot hear
A marked vision of hope whose hand
Betrays heaven and grasps the dark
Golden orb, pale images all
Sweet songs for the savage race
Auspicious guide for a primal brood
Gone with a gleam of frothy thought
I pound a cadence of miracles
For unseen masses do I sing
Thru the black night of suns
Each beat full of resounding hope
prodigious
Breathy
Windy enchantress
Wind me tightly
Mortal coiled Olivette
Coolly enamored
Damp and dada dayspring
Immodest dharma
Erewhon is enough
Is here now ever seen?
Intersect me raptor
Sweat me
Clean arced
Thawing, melding
Running quick silvered
Sublime reams unbound
Flushed fecund
Unapproachable shore
I……………………….
Woman of Pleiades
Beckon
Siren songed temptress
Dark impetuous tart
Bountifully laden
Stark vicissitudes of desire
Trysting angels squirming
Groaning hell bent
Or heavenly
Mindless phantoms merging
Searing, icy hot
Wordless ingrained coding
Reptilian brain play
Rehearsed a zillion aching
Times afore at least
Twisting, curving,
Ineffable something
O god, heavenward,
Spinning heavily
Unfocused, I,
Undone, dizzy, dropping
Headily, sliding
Limp, spineless
Sucked into nothingness
Love Is Written On Your Face
Entered cloud I feed on you
Stepping softly, praying to breathe
Your wild atmospheric air
Beneath loud music we travel
Earth, chiding the barren ground
Sweet inflamed glow, praising
The sun's nearer approach
Like figures upon the rocks
Whose single splendor shines
Fresh ornaments of marble
Our elemental passion, screams
Possessing a shadowed perfection
Shrouded in mist, walking the sea
Strange beasts of ecstasy and pain
Shouted whispers in the rushing dark
the Isle of Subtle Spirit
We dwell in a mist uneasily shelved, between lifetimes
O autumn, may your crimson gold turn to new born day
Here in life we chant the utterance of dead men, why?
Bright star, pure mirror to our minds, many paths converging
Only to strangely vanish, hypnotized by unseen miracles
Cloaked angels gazing, singing of earth with overwhelming voice
The ancient faith of runed symbiants, vying for their queen
Our relics taken and offered on the airless shore of Pleiades’
Wide open future, our blazing thoughts outrunning the shadows
Our secret song, a door, a key to the golden paths of bliss
Drenched in memories, august and serene, dripping tranquility
Mood for a Day
Mood for a day or maybe the moments
Bold attempt to capture time'sLiaison with clear dazzled destinies
Ticking, hallowed initiation rites
sun child brilliant, writhing siren
What time 'IS IT' shrill crier
Propelled by sure hand unseen
Inhabited ghost in the machine
Spoken with uncharacteristic
Lucid, bold, daring clarity
Hidden boon of mystic’s charms
Holding time’s broken arrow
Forward, backward, neither up nor down
“No –where” is creations time found
Resounding, cavernous, hollow sieve
Eternal “now- here” remains sublime
Transfixed inside this skin
Standing transfixed inside this skin; something real
The other, my Lover, comes reinstating the air
Abolishing the dust of stillness, renewing cycles
I have learned greatness from the ground again
Silvered sliver of the splintered road , answering
Here I am, too late, awed by day, quickened in vain
Down to my imaginary world, to self pity and mercy
This world is for the forceful, every move purposeful, and I?
I went back to where I had shut my song In Xanadu
My window-panes open no more to them, every one locked
With strange power the rain taps steadily upon my deep
Who knowest what morn will bring, my anxious spirit
And every instinct moves me nearer as I let go, resolved
Calling down the fire, setting altar-rails ablaze, I, but a ray
When a trouble appears, endure, be he who sings the last!
I am pierced with your infinite sorrow, chill and bound,
Carried to the silent sea where we parted company, at last
Enraptured dancers, it’s a slow shuffling waltz, this dance
It is lowly, fashioned for perishing creatures beneath these heavens
.
For I am here as a shock of color to your monochrome soul
Saved for a time, when winds blow still, their fury relentless
All thoughts, all rising feelings beyond this mind are clearing
Evermore laughing, unbounded, free at last to sing anew
Rising in pure fire
This world is mightier than death
Though we stand in the cold gray rain
Forever before the high gates of love
Light succumbs not to shades of time
Besieged by each ravished moment
Whose whispered beauty conquers all
Marked in solitary seconds, one by one
Till every thought of heaven pales
For there is but one bliss, one water
One sweet sea whose bright colors
Speed toward the thundering dawn
Whose ancient altars feed all
Rising in pure fire with the earth
Filled with memories of distant oblations
Arise! And live free, among the winged
Gratefully pouring
Mere sprout upon the ancient tree
Let me awaken fully for my day
Press the chalice and cause me drink
Blood red wine of suffering
Muted joys tasted midst pain
What possible entitlement have I
To breathe one stifled gasping breath
Impossibly small, am I, to exist here
What improbable purposeful plan
Dare include the simplicity of me
What audacious presumption causes
Me to stand, a fragile sapiens, tall
My sardonic skull yet covered in flesh
Yet knowing full well who shall laugh
Lastly when all becomes dust again
Love’s strength is such a fragile flower
Built on scaffolds of nothingness
Yet holds the spinning orbs in place
While I’m mottled with empty space
My one pleasing note is borrowed
A fading ember pulled from the fire
Such broken beauty should not be wasted
Put poured gratefully into the earth
Soulful violins
soulful violins, playing rapturous strains
Entwining melodies, their singing forever Obscured
Between desire and restless passion
When love’s consummation fitfully rose
You remember, we seemingly knew all then
Feeling only the sea and white moons glint
And the pouring salty wetness of mouths
Splashing our warm leaves, dripping life
We were breezy, plant-like, trippy
But what if words are leaky vessels?
And there's a flood of sages speaking
The sunset and our fated worlds colliding
Like souls that were touch to touch connected
Who would have thought, we, bronzed and flaming
Would tomorrow muse in vapor and wanting
Why then must we surrender these savors ?
That defy rediscovery, in widening circles
Saving their hot taste for forbidden tongues
Where shall we find our smoldering catalyst?
Mountains of aurora
I salute thee, weeping, with unspeakable desire
The fledgling call Of rebirthed hearts
Carried breathlessly, winging away free
By celestial couriers, mesmerizing angels
Brightly glowing supernaturals, cast like die
Teller of tales, ecstatic dealer of runes
Sailing winds to prevailing destinies shore
Roaring far and away, preeminent tides
Gilded chariots, driving thunderous gods
Gatekeeper, the quick and artless king
Decides our fate under his guarding wing
In search of raw and formless lodestar
Gathering the power of dark autumn days
A renewed apostle's grasp for grandeur
Pronouncement of exalted fate's virtue
Pale Burning Knight
Time's transient shore, ever shrinking beachead
Swaying pendulum, marching soldier of chronos
Truth stranger than fiction, all is dusty passage
Hallucinogenic Buddha, fated vapor man, crying
Time and space, forever falling, never touching bottom
Tossing reedy basket, riding providential currents
Universal child, oblivious, roaming streets of desire
Dark candled hope, omnipresent diety, radiating cosmos
Infinite spark, surrounded by the gnashing darkness
O to combust, igniting, fully flamed forever...........
Raging unquenchable fire, roaring, darkness eternally banished
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