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Burning Bushes Treacherous Cargo


"Burning Bushes Treacherous Cargo"

They say hell 
is on fire 

but there in 
The Lawrence Forest 
exist many, 
burning bushes 
waiting on deliverance
delivering messages,
hidden shadow angels
waiting for their
Bardo exodus

they are 
allowed to 
come and go 
but they are 
drawn back 
to their torched
habitats 
like moths
to flames

their footprints
scorch the missing years
in the desert sand, 
the place of the great undoing,
and through that wilderness
broken they glide across 
the slippery mossy passages
towards the banks of Styx
waiting at the River’s edge 
with tokens for the 
Elysium visits

twin flames
lost souls
for once
and all 
clearly see 
the other 
for what 
the other is

you will not see 
them clearly 
unless 
the match 
is well lit,
they carry 
their own light
in the shadows
they shapeshift

a staggered procession 
they come and go

exchanging contracts 
where sentences
are despatched;

the words
with a life 
of their own
are released 
like promises 
in the flow,
returning in the 
wake of the boat
the Ferryman
takes them
journeying 
through 

strange channels 
deep and unclear
towards 
the most clear 
and shallow
some will say 
treacherous - 

cargo 

transferred 
back to below 
so above
back to above
so below 

burning bushes
treacherous cargo

(LadyLabyrinth / 2023)

Copyright © | Year Posted 2023




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Date: 3/22/2023 10:03:00 AM
A wonderful write/picture. Love your ending. As you say, "hell is on fire." Many do not know that yet but will find out soon. Have a blessed day writing away more wonderful writes...........
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 3/22/2023 2:17:00 PM
hmmmm, it's got a whole Red Shoe vibe about it...stories, words...sentences....
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 3/22/2023 2:16:00 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbbPPy_bNM4
Date: 3/22/2023 8:58:00 AM
“This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest. That gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back." D.H. Lawrence
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Date: 3/22/2023 8:57:00 AM
"Ocean of Innocence"/Klaus Schulz, Lisa Gerrard
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 3/22/2023 8:57:00 AM
https://youtu.be/0GahpNxfsOQ

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