a Peyote Induced Dream
Totems are usually made of materials
Not constructed using real animals
But this totem was formed by living creatures
The fox was not at the top, weirdly enough
Being the lightest, you might have thought that
Because it would have made sense
But this fox is at the bottom
Holding up a bear, holding up a tiger
Spiritually they are connected
The fox, the
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Categories:
peyote, native american,
Form: Prose Poetry
Saint Peyote of the Buttoned Down Shirt
Pray for us St. Mushroom of the Holy Sin
Keep our fingers free from sticky things
And safe from anxiety of the open hole
In the middle of the doughnut where it belongs
Deliver us twelve of them but spare the sugar tax
Sin grows in the dark so wickedly delicious
Bury us not without nutritional consideration
Or restrictions on our
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Categories:
peyote, appreciation, corruption, food, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Peyote Highway
On Peyote Highway
The lanes go this way and that
Purple haze sunset to the left
The radio changes itself
On Peyote Highway
The flowers all try to hitch rides
With thumbs held high in the sky
While cactus ride by on their bikes
On Peyote Highway
Rainbow clouds speak in foreign tongue
The Koala Bear next to you sucks his thumb
The clown on the
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Categories:
peyote, drug, imagery, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Peyote
Peyote, my spiritual guide
Desert stars emanate peace
Beam of star's light penetrates my heart
God's message of love can't hide
From my false reality I slide
Planet's worries combined nothing
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Categories:
peyote, inspiration,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Peyote Marmalade
If the entire world is a stage and we are all actors upon it
So said Shakespeare (paraphrased)
Then daily life is a camera shot in focus.
When we explore our environment it’s a wide angle shot.
When we are stupidly acting on command, it’s a close up.
Well then......
We're ready for our close-up's
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Categories:
peyote, visionary
Form: Lyric
Peyote, 1961
They were there ...
in a jar ... floating ...
Dark and mysterious.
A shaft of sunlight fell on the table
and into the jar
illuminating Nahautl Pyotl Mexcalli nectar.
Cactus buds staring
with buttoned eyes and spiny tufts
like the heart of an artichoke
floating in brine.
Picked in Texas
and sent through the mail
to be shared ceremonially ...
without drums ...
in a
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Categories:
peyote, history, mystery, places, universe,
Form: Bio
Peyote
Shadows dance upon the plains as spirits speak their prayers
In the light of the flickering flames they reflect in flares
Smoke and ash, they hint their times when they too were alive
And in shadow dance they visit to show where some must stride
Secrets learned that should be shared with those who are in need
The Spirits watch
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Categories:
peyote, imagination, native american, nature,
Form: I do not know?