Solstitium Pluit
6th century mosaic pavement Beit Alph Synagogue, Israel In the longest night An abundant sky Sheds celestial tears On a desolate planet Wrapped in the arms Of my astronomad We orbit the Earth On a lithic asteroid Our Elysian chambers Warmed by effluvium drifts A deepening repose For star-struck voyagers The Solstice Star Blinks noiselessly A shimmering note On our nebulaic bed Then a headfirst plunge Near the axial tilt Clinging to stardrops We return to Earth...
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Joshua Tree, CA An Ode to the Beauty of California A desert blush Warms a somber image A pile of stones Randomly placed By an ancient hand Through which a mighty river once ran With glints of gold and silver Carried from a northern land The precious metals Less precious than that which bore them And now through a cracked landscape Erupts a cacophony of colors Nodding heads and smiling eyes Sing praises to the sky The song to become their requiem Voices of exultation arise Springing from this riotous choir Their power unrestrained Though the chorus is whispered And the finale gently breathed The mountains echo the Sacred Wind Tinged with granite And here we will lie down Between the scorpion and the cactus To honor this hallowed valley...
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The Thunderstone of Ensisheim Woodcut of Ensisheim Meteorite that fell into a wheatfiled in Alsace (now France) the morning of 11-7-1492 Midnight ink burning light Grazing celestial kisses Languid eye of stardust Impassioned pleas And astral yearnings Emboldened ebony veil Glowing embers Within crystal spheres Swimming sea of Night Colliding galaxies Novatic emanation Fervent spirits streaming Flaming hair Metallic tooth Bites the shadowed throat Scorching fireball Bursts a cloud Plows the gentle earth...
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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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