Mystery Wanderer Poems

A Russian Mystic Outré

Mystical-Strannik  
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin
A charlatan to many
A prophet to some.

His hypnotic effect
Incomprehensible
His eyes uncanny
A saint to none.

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Surprise flings impromptu
In seeming solid too:


Fatigue can hurl a play
That heals the cosmic stay;


Today I met a man
Who shared a curious plan;


A wanderer most strange
With...

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The wayward wanderer, wonders whilst walking; 
when woken the somnambulist savagely screams solipsist soliloquies!
Shaken...
Subsumed...
Shunning salvations sweet succor s
       ...

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Across the vastness of the silver sea of pain,
in a cave in the land of "I don't know",
a moonclad maiden waits and weeps,
embroidering her comely...

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She walks 
through the alleys in the middle of the night, 
there are only a couple of them 
      ...

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This is a dream of long ago...
Of a wanderer, an occasional sage and an often hermit;
who oft as life relies upon, took steps too bold
into...

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Many moons have fallen 
Since the captain set sail.
This relentless wanderer,
Who searches the world
To uncover a timeless tale.
Rove though he must,
Persevere through time,
Across a perilous...

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