Leanne Lovejoy-Burton Poet Free verse

Notes About The Poem

Traumgottin: the Heart Is a Crater

"In musical notation, a bar (or measure) is a segment of time corresponding to a specific number of beats in which each beat is represented by a particular note value and the boundaries of the bar are indicated by vertical bar lines." 

“I would traverse not once more, but often the hell of my inner being. One day I would be a better hand at the game. One day I would learn how to laugh. Pablo was waiting for me, and Mozart too.” 
Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf 

“All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.”
Hermann Hesse,Steppenwolf 

“Ah, Harry, we have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.”
Hermann Hesse,Steppenwolf 

"Stumbling Between the Immensities", Artist: Ben Stack




"Traumgottin: The Heart is a Crater"


The heart is a crater 
left smouldering cut deep
What does it matter
if I cannot sleep

You travel peacefully
in the green zoo your wild
caged like a dark creature
banging your music bars 
your beaten notes marking stolen time

I glide like Cimmerian Traumgöttin
cutting your heart into fine lines
with machine gun precision
no need for a blindfold, all the better -
I’m executing you with style

My heart is a crater
boiling blood rivers run down 
dark deep down to the underworld 
riding the River Styx, no need for a gown
I lie supine in my macabre gondola
I’ve left your House of Cards and it’s tricks

A different Ferryman moves his oar 
he’s from another land, 
the Land of Hemimetabola
I calmly pluck your death tune feeling soothed
on my sad macabre exquisite mandola

Close my eyes, swallow dreams of straw houses
blown down by the son of chaos, dark Steppenwolf 
In the ether my twin soul possesses me, I’ve been bit
I was Aether, now I’m her reflection, I no longer sit

Stumbling between the Immensities, 
her dark majesty moves inside me
in the River's mirror, she now smiles back
"Welcome Home dear daughter," she decrees,
"I am Nyx".

(Lovejoy-Burton/Jan 2018)


"Alms for your Love"/Elyssian fields






Cimmerian 
1. 
as in the colour - Blue
2.
"The Cimmerians are first mentioned in the 8th century BCE in Homer's Odyssey as a people living beyond the Oceanus, in a land permanently deprived of sunlight at the edge of the world and the entrance of Hades..."

♡Like0

Share Poem

---

Post Comments

Poetrysoup is an environment of encouragement and growth so only provide specific positive comments that indicate what you appreciate about the poem. Negative comments will result your account being banned.

Please Login to post a comment

Silent One January 26, 2018 at 5:21 PM Your poems are full of lessons... Leanne Lovejoy-Burton January 27, 2018 at 2:05 AM I take that as a huge compliment. Thank you. Silent One January 26, 2018 at 5:54 PM I meant in regards to the fact I learn new things from them.. This time about Cimmerian Traumgöttin Leanne Lovejoy-Burton January 26, 2018 at 5:29 PM ...maybe. This poem maybe for someone who is sitting far removed from the soup of life in another green zoo....far removed from Poetry - then again, maybe not. Psychology is a dreadful thing.

Poet Tacito January 25, 2018 at 12:20 PM I certainly learned some new things today. This flowed incredibly well. A truly enjoyable read. Leanne Lovejoy-Burton January 25, 2018 at 1:36 PM Thank you Drake. I trust your writing continues. Will have to go back in and have another look what stories you have progressed onto...:)

James Swartz January 25, 2018 at 10:55 AM Your words are exciting and entertaining and educational Leanne! Your poems are always a joy to read. You must be a fountain of wonderful information being displayed by your creative ingenuity. Leanne Lovejoy-Burton January 25, 2018 at 1:31 PM Hola James Swartz. Your style kind of reminds me of Bukowski. Kind of...One of the things I get the most enjoyment/passion from next to writing my stories - is research. The internet is a 'web', it can be a place that's not so good (dark/dangerous) and you can get lost or caught up in it....however, it is also a place where you can learn and gain immense knowledge, expand the power of your mind and be able to communicate with people. There are also good things to be mined from the place. Thank you.

Jannie Breedt January 25, 2018 at 7:37 AM Leanne You qrite faster than I can read. The volume of your work is enormous in such a short time. I envy that. I can manage 1 per week and then the editing. The muse has got you and it just rolls off the pages. This one is another WoW Leanne Lovejoy-Burton January 25, 2018 at 1:25 PM Yes, it's like effluent...I don't know Jannie. I've always liked to write, but of late it's like I "have" to, it's some weird compulsion or worse, addiction. I was looking at all the poems (and I'm no poet) I've written last night and was taken aback myself. I like to write stories, as in short, this is a new medium for me to refine my writing skill. I've spewed a radical amount of words and thoughts since December last year, it is a bit of a conundrum, it's like I'm a woman possessed....only joshing. Thank you for the compliment. x

Maria Williams January 25, 2018 at 4:19 AM Brilliant write Leanne, in true hero style you execute your journey through boiling blood rivers, dark and deep through the underworld and back. Truly enjoy your style my friend....Maria Maria Williams January 26, 2018 at 12:41 AM Possums are well and starting to get a bit more daring now. Lol You are doing great, a great poet you are. Dont get too grounded you have a unique style of your own ...MARIA Leanne Lovejoy-Burton January 25, 2018 at 4:24 AM Hey Maria! How are the baby possums going and their mumma? My style is all over the shop. It needs refining and I need to diversify genres. But thank you.

Anne-Lise Andresen January 25, 2018 at 4:09 AM - I can see you have a lot of interest in this theme - An exciting theme, Leanne - A great poem - Today we find so much online ... we do not have to search in old books at the library - hugs // Anne-Lise :) Leanne Lovejoy-Burton January 25, 2018 at 4:22 AM Hi Sunshine. Thank you. It may come as a surprise, I'd actually get a kick out of researching through old books, even ancient...actually holding them and turning the pages, for eg like the Domesday Book, the manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William the Conqueror...to begin with, of course it's online, but not the same experience.

Leanne Lovejoy-Burton January 24, 2018 at 7:48 PM "The trip to the underworld is a mytheme of comparative mythology found in a diverse number of religions from around the world. The hero or upper-world deity journeys to the underworld or to the land of the dead and returns, often with a quest-object or a loved one, or with heightened knowledge." Leanne Lovejoy-Burton January 24, 2018 at 7:49 PM "The ability to enter the realm of the dead while still alive, and to return, is a proof of the classical hero's exceptional status as more than mortal. A deity who returns from the underworld demonstrates eschatological themes such as the cyclical nature of time and existence, or the defeat of death and the possibility of immortality."

Arturo Michael January 24, 2018 at 7:21 PM She a daughter of Erebus...Interesting must learn some more of this... Leanne Lovejoy-Burton January 24, 2018 at 7:55 PM Yes, very interesting complex character, Nyx. Whether Erebus is a presence in this story is debatable, I have yet to pin a tail on the donkey for that character. The protagonists, or heroes in this story are Aether and Nyx. Thanks for popping by Arturo.

Leanne Lovejoy-Burton January 24, 2018 at 7:05 PM "DER STEPPENWOLF", HERMANN HESSE http://www.kkoworld.com/kitablar/Herman_Hesse_Yalquzaq_eng.pdf

Frederic Parker January 24, 2018 at 6:34 PM no one returns from Charon's boat Leanne Lovejoy-Burton January 24, 2018 at 6:57 PM lol, well that's in your story Frederic... :) Thanks for stopping by. Some heroes return... In the catabasis mytheme, heroes – such as Aeneas, Dionysus, Heracles, Hermes, Odysseus, Orpheus, Pirithous, Psyche, Theseus and Sisyphus – journey to the underworld and return, still alive, conveyed by the boat of Charon.