Phoenix Wings
"Phoenix Wings"
Suede heart turns tin star
wears the shining part
on the outside stitched up
blue silk now
glistening
tears in time forgotten
justice in the frozen cut glass
criminal, wasted memories
clairvoyant signs
electric lines writes and
truth speaks codex sublime
in the haze seen
that which others cast aside
inconsequential significance
in the unreadable
useless hieroglyphics
sensed red, written
blood and private wars
kept caged in the place
where skin sheds
metamorphosis happening
birthing something
in the lost words there
some strange beauty reigns
in the fire borne rage
summoning beautiful majik
strange poetry remote
dissipating eventually
unlikely understood
touching the distance
welcomed in like a
new phantom invisible
illuminating
the unseen
meaning of smoke rings
tears the past's flimsy
wedding veil the face kept
imaginary diamonds
carried off
above it all
dousing the commotion
another chapter
another season
burnished not banished
like walking faith
on an Ocean
kept
Winter wraps itself
sensuously some feeling
in the falling leaves, still
quietly persistent
watching abandoned
Autumn stories
warmly stoked
under blankets
heat rising
magic spills lit
under the tempest
lifting upwards
the cracked yoke
freedom tasting
blue sky
kissing cupid’s bow
unfurling
life stirs there somehow
sensed in hidden meaning
heat beneath the smoke rings
opening up, the heart beats
skywards in the thrust
blue silk glistening
in the phoenix wings
(LadyLabyrinth / 2021)
"Smoke Ring" / Robert Levon Been
https://youtu.be/YyyN2hnInpI
"You never wake up from a dream
It never leaves you
But now it hurts you,
leaves you down the straight line
You never split a glass of milk
You’ve never cried and cried..."
"You are the smoke ring
You are the majesty.."
Copyright © Lady Labyrinth | Year Posted 2021
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