The Mercury Tree
Between dream and ashes, the moon sheds its old skin,
Under my temples lanterns grow like blue wounds,
And time, a faceless child, calls out through the cold walls,
I walk through myself as through a strange palace of mercury.
In memory's attic, moths dig their tunnels,
And every silence searches for a name inside me,
A god with eyes of ash throws the windows wide open,
And my shadows pour onto my tongue, like sick honey.
Beneath the city's skin sleeps a violet horse, starving,
It bites into the stars, leaving stations and mirrors in our blood,
We are born seven times from the first, foreign light,
And we die back, like a mute song forgotten in water.
Then the white garden of nerves rises out of sleep,
The silent trees exchange their roots with one another,
And the hand of fate stitches us into cold light,
And every wound becomes a threshold of smoke toward us.
Morning finds us with eyes of salt and heavy sleep,
And we carry, in silence, a nameless bird,
When the extinguished light returns to us from the depths,
And the secret, like a raspberry, cracks in memory's ember.
I will not go.
I will not join your great house of sovereignty.
Whose aborted virtues rendered our minds comatose.
Our souls now hidden behind decadent faces veiled with smiles and gestures.
And so we dance...
With mechanical blithe and a minstrel show festive.
A bartering of time.
A spinning of yarn.
With no reward for wasting the dawn.
(our mutual horoscope)
We’re in Mercury retrograde
it’s a chance to reexamine your heart
expect some miscommunication
cause we’re outside of comfort zones
expect a flood of new emotions
situations can get out of control
you might lose some inhibition
so check your intuition
Mercury’s moving very slowly,
I advise you to do the same
see, mercury focuses on details
while pisces takes a more creative view
when you put the two together
the juxtaposing energy’s confusing
you can feel extreme nostalgia
which could swamp your boundaries
So seek the least amount of damage
let water be your sanctuary
question other people’s stressful projections
take a beat from irritations
and be careful around your exes
connect with people who have your back
protect the things you want to foster
cause this going to be exhausting
.
.
A song for this:
Bloom Baby Bloom by Wolf Alice [E]
The Whole of the Moon by The Waterboys
Twas a portrait, puddles painted.
No face of ours, am I acquainted.
And yet wait still, for quite the visage,
Something new, in someone's image.
It wasn't quite, no frown nor fright.
Though waters spill, from strokes of skill.
Simple paints or mercury,
The subject's hand was cursory.
And so it melted, so it cried.
Lines blurred heavy, and the viewer died.
Death walks slowly down the street
with the hood pulled way down low
ain't no sound no not even his feet
his hourglass ready to go
are you ready hey are you ready for this
are you sitting on the edge of your seat
out of the doorway the soul-scythe rips
the end prepare to meet yeah
'bomp' 'bomp' 'bomp'
another goes to the dogs
'bomp' 'bomp' 'bomp'
another falls off his log
and another one gone and another one gone
another one down the bogs
hey I'm gonna get you too
another one pops his clogs
With apologies to Freddie Mercury (1946 – 1991) & Queen
SOUL MEMORY
Aligning core below to above
Sirius clapped in glee
urging group into Time out of Space
Pyramid, triangle of my refuge
and direction
Mercury watched soul circling Squinx
Dogons ancient guiding mission
bronze arms encircled axis
Africa cracked from Asia
Amma rejoicing
I knew not then
that in a Southern land I
were to disembark to
stand firm with fearlessness
time-split generational embeds
with carbon and consciousness
oxygen the catalyst
myrrh rained down
to cleanse
Last Supper was still to come
Mighty Mercury
Alert then aloof, snuggly warm then colder
His rangy legs spring to hitch a ride on our shoulder
Lifting our hearts to elation
He’s our portable vacation
We cherish Mercury more each day we grow older
When Water and Fire Collide
Tongues knoted in Silence, Silence Preside
Mercury Dulled Lovers Communication
Muddled Messages, Interactions Barely There
No Interest, No Warmth, No Feelings Shared
Creating Distractions to Minimized Relations
I am Here for Me, You're Here for You Situations
Eager to Strike a Match to Extinquish A Red Candle
Retrograde Realiazation, She's too Much to Handle
Afterall,
She Walked Through the Fire Furnaced Air
With A Honey Pot Filled With Ale From the Fountain
of The Dragon's Lair
She Saw Her Reflection In Mercury's Silvery Mirror
Emotionally Volatile, Diamond purifed of a Coal Cluster
So Now,
Under the Influence Of Miscommunication
Visible Lines were Blurred, Heated Moments
Dulled by Confusion, Desiring Isolation
In the End,
She Choose to Surf the Mercurial Anti Clockwise Wave
She Intelligently Flowed With the Current
Blatantly Refusing to Be Mercury's Warded Slave.
A world imagined
A phantom circling the sun
Veiled by her white glare
Pulling on Mercury's heels
Pulling on mankind's veiled minds
About the hypothetical planet Vulcan, which was theorised to exist as the nearest planet to the Sun in the 19th century.
mercury and sunshine
will see you walking around sunset
thought you are the ghost
which
come to frighten up the children
how on earth do ghost comes in the daytime
to impress the wisdom
weapons of war and all the diamonds will crumble
to see the symbol
funny face
it will be a smile at sunset
to express salvation to the children
to pass the message to the parents
you gotta hurry to the station
to catch the passenger
who carrying the package of the future
mark it
as it's nothing
but
the imagination.
Mercury
An Angel Having Recently Visited You
Sent back Metal Film
of Your Ancient shores
Cratered silver with loneliness
the Humming of Silver Tides
Or discs bent longingly
With long lonely empty looks
Disc crater eyes alloyed obsidian
Looking back at the messenger
With cold memory
Of the abandonment
Which bore their emptiness
In the insane heat of the void
And now leering livid
Yet recent in disdain the merging antiphony
Like arcadia from the ashes
For and through the endless night
And disenchanted contempt
Which bares no life
Except the whisper of Loneliness
I wouldn't like to live on Pluto
though you gave me a box full of gin,
a thousand woolly blankets
and loads of oxygen.
I wouldn't like Mercury either
for there I'd freeze or bake.
And where on Mars or Venus
is there beer, for Heaven's sake?
I have to accept I'm an earthling,
where I may have to suffer a lot.
Happiness lies in contentment
asking little more than what you have got.
You dream as you turn the pages of lasagna and the thin voices of your parents behind the wall
That man is there, the fluff, the sequins of his overcoat
A strange angle to challenge your religion, you can’t really see the eyes from this flash
As a child you stared, and now you stare again.
It strikes seven chords from within your bones. A medley; the body has never heard before-
And the muscles, the nerves, the fibers, and the tissue all vibrate to make vague sort of new virgin space.
Aaagh, all of a sudden, and your grandmother touches you gently, a brush on the shoulder to ask you are you alright? Because your flesh is dripping.
And you know why, because its all,
Bit of your soul is broken off
And ‘that’s why the caged bird sings’ now
And all.
You’re a ripple in the daylight now.
So try,
And try,
And try,
And try.
Jogging down a country road,
Searching for that pristine edge.
The daily stress I must unload,
As I make my solemn pledge.
Two miles in, I gasp for air;
Lungs are scorched and tight.
I tell myself not to despair,
While trying to pace my flight.
Waiting for that second wind,
I'm sure it's coming soon.
Heading towards the final bend,
I hum my favorite tune.
There it is, I feel the surge;
Adrenaline was badly needed.
I'm so glad I fought the urge,
To quit fore I succeeded.
Gliding fast on winged feet,
Feeling like I could fly.
The Joy! Nothing can compete,
Like life...stop and you die.
Mercury speeds through galactic showers
Others take days, her journey's three hours
Although it's said she has superpowers
Behind Space grains and particles, Mercury cowers
Mars sells creamy, caramel chocolate bars
Leads the life of a Milky Way star
Travels here, travels there, near and far
Always seeks Peace, finds only War ~
Which leaves us the Moon, to rescue us soon
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