Lady Labyrinth Poet Free verse

The Psychopomp's Embrace

"The Psychopomp’s Embrace" 

No judgement 
from the fallen 

unseen angels 
credited 
with scores to 
safely harbour 
lost passing ships 
that crush souls 
in dark night
ferrying love 
the precious token
of graces sorely paid, 
the return, a prayer
for the wild at heart
kept in cages 
delivered 
by the 
sublime
in misty 
stages

rushing across
deep reflective pools 
like hushed mirrors
echo tears 
that drop
like pearls 
embroidered
on the satin lips 
warmth like 
watered ink
slowly seeping, 
the coolness
softly touched
by a burning kiss 
drinking recompense
in, forever in, 
across a blank unlit canvas
then, without warning,
upward motion the 
darkness kisses closed 
the windows
on those sleepwalking
suede convincing eyelids,
no time to speak 
no more talking 

crushed violets
and silver ultra
messages marked
by unseen fingers
walking along the 
cool satin plains
of a throat that 
no longer sings
nor breathes
but allows 
escape for 
revenant  
soul to live,
to spark

an aura turns 
inward 
to embrace
the dark 
Psychopomp’s Grace

and through the 
mirrors lost 
knights come 
riding through 
two and two 

the higher self,
shatters the mirror

leaves the web
leaves the loom


(LadyLabyrinth / 2022)


“Psychopomp” / The Tea Party
https://youtu.be/qX860oJo6Yc




“Distant singing is heard. 
Ghostly voices become audible: 
fragments of lectures remembered, 
the finely distilled wisdom and passion
of seers and poets 
with which the modern young mind 
is tempered for the world that blows it to pieces.”
Tennessee Williams, Stairs to the Roof







Psychopomp 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopomp





"The Lady of Shalott"
Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1832
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45359/the-lady-of-shalott-1832




"A Prayer for the Wild at Heart"
Tennessee Williams 
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/691414-stairs-to-the-roof




"Month Through"/ XavieRinato, 15 Dec 2010
Silver Grass Perfume 
https://youtu.be/ZJ65vWmHDRU

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Lady Labyrinth October 12, 2022 at 2:45 AM "Nothing happens that is not supposed to happen..."

Lady Labyrinth October 12, 2022 at 1:03 AM Month Through/Xavierinato. Brian Granger's "Silver Grass Perfume". Lady Labyrinth October 12, 2022 at 1:03 AM https://youtu.be/ZJ65vWmHDRU

Lady Labyrinth October 12, 2022 at 12:59 AM “Distant singing is heard. Ghostly voices become audible: fragments of lectures remembered, the finely distilled wisdom and passion of seers and poets with which the modern young mind is tempered for the world that blows it to pieces.” Tennessee Williams, Stairs to the Roof