Nature Mythology Poems

The forest is my loyal friend A Delphic shrine to me.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The tow’ring trees with their branches widespread
Sift light which falls like a...

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meek, this hour
of a morning hue
shy cobweb gloss
in a frosted dew

he stood as shrubs
nay merged with trees
but matted hair
instead of leaves

though leaves a few
were woven...

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Steeped in mysterious magic
fearlessly they go
an eerily mischievous bird
you’re never far from a crow

Mystical messenger of the occult
blackest black obsidian plume
baneful omen of death they...

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I was in Eden, when the stars saw and moulded man 
I beheld the achievement of my toils and plan 
I surveyed the ape body...

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In the middle of the mess, frightful loss:

wonder of wonders (!): quality of mercy

--- Mythologem of Mythologems ---

sudden succor reappears once again.

...

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. . . and with a haughty drink 
of Virgil’s water 
from the River Lethe
I venture forth knowing nothing
bring on the steps ahead 
and what...

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I am being born 
again 
and again 
From above
Not from the will of men 

And in these births is one aching desire
to connect with you
my...

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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,...

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Clouds are silvery
Clouds are a mystery 
Mystery is mesmerizing 
Mystery is like smoke
Smoke is blurry 
Smoke creates paintings
Paintings inspire thoughtful minds
Paintings appeal to dreamy eyes
Eyes...

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In an ancient square
There is a yew tree wood
Of such antiquity 
The tree roots writhe
In the darkness of their own doing
Up yet down, to infinity

Amongst...

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("Anagogical Moments Merit Badge" #39, 2011, original oil)

As Above So NOT Below

The tripartite world of material appearance
Sandwiched between the infinite depths
Of the unconscious 
And infinite...

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you were never properly afraid of my antlers
in the grass that pierced our feet and the trains
kept on rolling by tracks I wished I'd made...

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The wind takes an eardrum,
and fills it with hail.

The waves crash beyond me
on an unbeaten trail.

There are men here who think
they’ve found victory and wealth,

but...

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Hy-Brasil

Out a’high in lashin’ waves 
a’crashin’ anger’d sea

b’yond Albion an’ Hibernia
where mists a’shadow’d, lowly 

o’ magical Isle o’ Hy-Brasil
tentacl’d ocean beast ther’ tore

fear’d sailors away...

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Heqtit spoke to the People

Who's selfishness: wishes to smear the
need of these people. Who strands there
own individual want to compromise the
 need of people. 
He...

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