Omen


"Omen" 

The throat holds 
untold secrets
like a chamber
holds bullets

a silent question mark
wrapped around 
the speaking, 
changing gears 

full throttle
far reaching 
like a noose 
over sunbeams

the ropes 
for net cast 
morsel charms
upstroke downstroke 

Ariel beckons
the purpose 
of lions for love
into his shadowy arms

"hush", he says,

"the Long Night,
I see aflame in your eyes
like a burning bed 
is still warm, 

wingspan of goose
dreams of a swan
misunderstood albatross 

good and bad
omen,
bluebirds forewarned

an alter 
covered with blood
awaiting its phoenix
like star of the morn

paradise
found and lost
lost and found
paradise"

forewarned.

(LadyLabyrinth / 2023)










"Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhime.
And chiefly Thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer
Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure,
Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first
Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread
Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss
And mad'st it pregnant: What in me is dark
Illumin, "
(John Milton, 1675)







"Love; dark sluggish cumulus clouds 
pregnant with an impending storm."




morsel.
mortal.

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