The Stages of Madness
"The Stages of Madness"
Blue bleeds
into each day
cloudy I wait
for some sign
from You
a ghost waving
who
could blame me
an Ocean inside
I am
Cumulonimbus
bursting
the clouds
gather the tears
in their reigning
signs
are forever
morphing, rearranging
the meaningful
somersaulting
backwards, exchanging
messages, forever
changing, and changing, yet
clearly understood
soul swimming
lux vitae
in the
never never
ending
stages of madness
(LadyLabyrinth / 2022)
“Let There Be …” / Max Cooper
https://youtu.be/TVviQFKLMoU
“There was a star
riding through clouds one night,
and I said to the star,
'Consume me.'”
(Virginia Woolf, "The Waves")
Out on the wastes of the Never Never -
That's where the dead men lie!
There where the heat-waves dance forever -
That's where the dead men lie!
(Barcroft Boakes, "Where the Deadmen Lie")
"“A cloud does not know why
it moves in just such a direction
and at such a speed,
it feels an impulsion...
this is the place to go now.
But the sky knows the reason
and the patterns behind all clouds,
and you will know, too,
when you lift yourself high enough
to see beyond horizons.”
Richard Bach
‘Illusions: The Adventures Of A Reluctant Messiah’.
never never/the Never-Never
The unpopulated desert country of the interior of Australia; the remote outback.
"Mid 19th century so named from the notion that one might never return from such remote country."
Copyright © Lady Labyrinth | Year Posted 2022
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