Bella Donna
Scene from animated film “Belladonna of Sadness” 1973 Directed by Eiichi Yamamoto Produced by Tadami Watanabe Written by Yoshiyuki Fukuda and Eiichi Yamamoto Virile mandrake The Devil’s sickness A blushing bride In offering The Night rains down False lullabies The silk is torn And blood tears shed From a berry stolen All senses raped Visions reveal The dagger’s thrust The silent scream When Satan claims The ruby throat And nectar spills Let us fly free Bewitching Flower To earth we’re bound No longer LiNdA...
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Image from “Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse” (The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse) 1960 film by Fritz Lang The eyes mesmerize Hypnotize Not to sympathize But to brutalize Doctor, Doctor You are a watcher A stalker Over us, you proctor Fight the spell we visualize Synchronize Dreams crystallize Not to victimize Evil, evil Upon good people Fearful, for you are Deceitful Your soul withers Slithers Dripping rivers Blood shivers Spirit, Spirit We are not complicit Your gory turret We will not exhibit The hands strangle Mangle But we will untangle The critical angle Light, Light Reveal our plight Relieve our fright For we take flight...
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Intihuatana Stone – Machu Picchu, Peru Photo via imagesofanthropology.com A shadow melting In a granite bed The Sun a sacred passion And from a barren branch A brown leaf falls Now crushed beneath its foot Conveyed on a celestial carriage Our eventide murmurings No less than the coming dawn Sweet kisses dropping Like crimson petals Upon balanced scales Golden shimmers As radiant tresses Clasped in a velvet wrap Upon a stone We shall set The Light So, too, the Stars this night...
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Cherokee, California For now even the Sun Scorching in his sulky ways Sullen and moody Soon will expire His fiery fingers slacken On the length of days And Night reaches out A gentle hand Imperceptibly soft and cool A dewy caress on a burnt cheek Though the fireball rages still In the advent of his repose Among the twinkled lights Messengers from distant realms Anoint a pair who slumber Illuminated in a candle’s prism The essence of argan radiating Sweetness and nectar Released from heated stones Refreshed by Zephyr’s breath Under the deepened heel of Night A blade of grass is crushed Unlike the knife steel Struck on Tomorrow’s anvil LiNdA...
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AR1944 as the sun sets behind the Chiricahua Mountains on Jan. 6, 2014. Photo by Fred Espenak Behind tropospheric fields Of cirrocumulus stratisformis The Sun is absorbed With his own rhythms A flaming sphere Of magnetic forces And gamma beta rays And we are entwined Though standing at separate poles Each in our own reverie Peering through shaded oculi As he turns his massive red eye In our direction And blinks LiNdA...
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