Alma de la Vid
Shipibo meditation circle A journey into Night A dream within a Flame A Truth in utero A Reality surpassed The serpent uncoils Through the fire, slithers Flickering flashes On a scaled tongue A pink bud, ruffled ‘Neath her cloak cached Roused from slumber By a night wasp’s sting A tiny Sun Angel Weaves a chacruna coverlet Turns her amethyst throat To the jaws of the puma Soul of the Vine Drips from the branch A viscous brew Into a cupped hand Throbbing vein Life sustain Death in retreat While the jaguar weeps...
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Photographer Dirk Ercken Red poison dart frog, Peruvian rain forest Upon your bed of leaves So quiet and still Almost unseen You sit and wait For the call Of the Master Then, moving delicately Donning your mantle Of red and blue You venture forth And dip a toe Into the Milky Way And finding it To your liking You leap in Immersing yourself Into the infinity of Light and Dark And two more souls Equally enamored Tumble in...
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Big Sur, California This night embraced by clouds Their dusky kisses nest in your hair And on your brow nuzzle softly A cool dampness upon my mouth Tropic oceans flavor my tongue A whispered message of trade winds Our skin scented of sweet perfume From an orchid hid between stones Her fragrance clings to the egret A silent traveler upon my roof The quiet hush to drip from leaves On a shadow to the ground below Placid lilies lift their heads Parted lips to sup the mist This gentle, flowing caress To a billowing vapor In a twisting vent An ambrosial emulsion The fevered hammer To languid iron subdued The grey veil fluttering Drops dulcet voiced Pastilles from the nimbus A chimed chorus singing A stream of wisps Too slight to grasp Clad in silvertones glistening...
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Markarian 231 NASA, Hubble Telescope Dedicated to Kip Thorne and Freeman J. Dyson Who speak of black holes and worm holes Interstellar travel and Gravitational slingshots in a black hole binary At the Black Hole horizon Your words sweep past my feet I am trapped for Eternity Awaiting your voice A whisper in my ears But the utterances have become A Singularity I shall dedicate a song To a Man living still Within a binary black hole And I will reach out with grasping fingers To pluck a handful of gravity And merge myself into the galaxy To open a wormhole through which I will crawl And there I will find your voice With your footsteps forever muffled Your hair radiating freely As on a purple coverlet We shall clasp hands In the fabric of space time For an earth equivalent of billions of years LiNdA ...
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Xochiquetzal Caressed within Shimmering walls Of a jade temple Flowing rivers Anoint and bathe Preparing the blossom But the unforeseen path Has revealed itself To our destined Queen Written in ebony and cacao Premonitory words A metamorphosis mutation We await with vigilant eye The transcendent event Centuries unfolding From the time of the gods And fire volcanoes That will spit forth your ambered petals And we pray for them Your unborn wings To convey our souls To the next life in a forest of firs Your wings beating as a soft rain To arise again from steaming mists The Fertile Rituals We re-enact amidst amethyst streams To honor you, our Precious Flower Xochiquetzal II A cloak of green From which streams of purple flow A Prince comes in homage paying As well to reign enduring The glass breaks But the candle remains Lit and burning A soul stirring Our knees pressed Into lavender arms Balm from bruised fronds wafting A pannier of amaranth and silver We alight upon your ambered petals Flightless, molten pinions Our broken bodies crying out Cradled on feathered bittersweet Hearken, Death’s song The soft rain of wings beating Stilled before the fir forests Of steaming mists A realm beyond the jade temple And walls of glistening crystal Where we, too, have dwelt In the Time of Gods, as gods And the fire volcanoes That spewed lava wings Now your burial shroud That we may cling to flight LiNdA ...
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You open your mouth To swallow the Moon A sacred wafer You chew upon it And from between your teeth Spills silver beams A luminous note Falls from your ear With a mystical tone It lands on my breast And burrows into my heart To pulse an enchanted rhythm Your hair is a fountain A spray of lunar nectar It tastes soft and sweet A white tablet is your belly Upon which I imprint a song With trembling lips It becomes a poetic mist A shimmering ode to the Moon And to the one who has eaten of it...
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