Long Magus Poems

The Roman administrators came for the wealth of our worship
demanding that I crack the church's coffers wide open
for their needs, for the Empire's desperate embellishments,
in place of gold I presented the poor
I told the onery...

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Beneath the pall of an eldritch moon, 
                           ...

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(Piece is intended to be the most complex vocabulary gothic ever)

Grandiloquence,
mellifluous pulchritudinous,
gaiety of quintessential moistening serendipity,
bile deluge if you show the sanguinary breath,
crimson waterfall sizzling on lava rock hellscape.

Yclept necrophelia maestra,
macabre tableau,
dips douse abyssal incarnate,
now...

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So deaf, so blind are we-
Our little minds (judgmentally inclined )
base judgments on assumptions,
not on related facts !

So, on and on, the squirrel cage
goes, round and round, And no one listens
to what wise men still...

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educated by the ancient twin mystics 
right eye and left eye
to nurture nature a desire for beauty
and sweet self astonishment
can't perceive without perceiving
music of the spheres for dummies
the elderly should be smarter than they are...

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In tumults of time and forgetfulness, in the hidden frenzy of a heart beating faintly,
Invoke the unseen magic, unravel silk works in the deep night,
Tame as a magus who dares, let fall veils of silence,
Breathe...

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There was a merry minstrel once
Lived on the Isle Of Wight.
He sang and played upon his lute
And kept it polished bright.
He loved to write computer odes,
He wrote his songs in Morse's codes,
And ditties sweet lay...

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A single, unnoticed ray of light
shooting across the sky at night
straight down to my head
in our conversations 
it is, as it has always been
between the King and I.

He tells me what he sees, 
and he...

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"The Barefoot Magus: Deserts and Oceans"



In the lost years we meet
strangers found yet known 
in the strangest desert dreams

Barefeet, we speak
of strange magic 
hidden in our hearts

invisible, 
seldom
ever seen

Across great oceans
we then walk, 
we hold...

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The semi dessert place of the beaten track,
a little oasis of orchards in the dirt cul de sac.
Where no one can find that man anymore,
stone walls full of herbs in bloom adore.
Walk through overgrown Granadilla,
Canna...

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He appeared to be a mere, callow boy,
Beautiful, strange, exotic, enchanting,
But he was, he said, a king, and he'd traveled very far
Over time, and land, and sea in search of me.
His glance was diffident and...

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It sounded so cool,
coming from the master
wordsmith there on the cover
of "Poets and Writers".
didn't he look like he knew?
White hair and beard,
impeccable, black turtleneck,
coarse cloth overcoat,
turned out, casual and
desciplined.
More like mapping the magi or
apping the...

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Though sapient vision limps short,
And digs no eye into nirvana's fort;
Albeit most vivid dream’s flips stop, 
Instinct excels where iffy triers flop. 

And that sharper divining seer tells
Sweeter tales no deft lyricist's bells 
Ever rung...

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Once upon a time, a prophecy long foretold 
of a child who would bring forth prosperity.
She would be of meager birth with hair of gold.
At six and ten the magus did find, Felicity.
“A quest my...

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Life's an adventure
When one's mind
Always ventures
Until they find

The bliss that
We all seem to miss

Yet, it has never
Always been like this

In the days of Lemuria
& Atlantis
When the magus
Resembled a mantis

Greek for prophet,
Or seer

Don't believe
The end is...

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On the Corner,
Around Midnight,
The Dark Magus,
Brewed a Bitches Brew.

Although we were
Walkin' and Workin' 
and we were there 
at the Birth of the Cool,
he was already
Miles Ahead!

From Pangaea to
Sketches of Spain, and
even Arghata, all told the...

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Once upon a time an esoteric rhyme
poked through space-time into the sublime
Conjured by a reclusive alchemist 
and a phenomenal fabulist

Then there was the hairy apothecary
in cahoots with the counterrevolutionary 
Simultaneously exhorting the masses 
To disrupt...

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I finally give up
I think I've had enough
You have brought me to the brink of madness

As you recklessly played 
With the unpredictable flame
Of my incredibly volatile passions

You're just lucky I've such strength
Keeping this inferno contained
It's...

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