I just read, to a friend today, a poem about dust on the moon. Funny thing is, and he'd even say, a particle of that is in my room!
No, really. Believe me, i'm not lying. The fodder of astronauts' is here, and beer! Right here, by the wine bottle and the dead pipe, in the basement where he showed no fear.
By sibylline light appear images I recognize, creviced captures of my life. I know her judgment to be my own.
"Nourished by Moon rivers mythical cavern blooms unseen by sunlight glow green." Thus she sets the scene; becomes the prophecy.
"Purest white simplicity curved to suggest fragility faith fed maiden ready for plucking, given in bondage to womanly woes, hard rows to hoe for that little bit of hug through crying of night.
Fate of Trojan soldiers, sacrificed to lust. Unbended, beg for the boon of drama high adventure sneaking into sad hotels for a fix or a tumble. Laughs, deadly play, danger, a real chance.
Barefoot in the snow icy roads winds so strong I could not make you hear. I thought you were my destiny. These thoughts are far from clear; but I believed song lyrics from somber deities would not lie, leave me dying, fading into winter's grey drifting clouds, endless sorrow endured for naught. Lost on this careless corner, dreaming of oblivion, intent on visions like rain tapping against eternity's vast windowpane. Scenic serenity. Nature's gradations of green soothes tired eyes, trembling nerves, throbbing veins. Slivers of moonlight reflect in withered refrains, unearth secrets embedded in song effervescing through cool pure air
cleansing the uprising nestling set aflame resurrected tempered mettle, pure, wise, tested engorged with the will to rise"
I'm a woman, a Witch, a mother, a grandmother, an eco-feminist, a gardener, a reader, a writer, and a priestess of the Great Mother Earth. Hecate appears in the
Homeric Ode to Demeter, which tells of Hades who caught Persophone
"up reluctant on his golden car and bare her away lamenting. . . . But no one, either of the deathless gods or of mortal men, heard her voice, nor yet the olive-trees bearing rich fruit: only tenderhearted Hecate, bright-coiffed, the daughter of Persaeus, heard the girl from her cave . . . ."
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Scrying on the Moon
By sibylline light
appear images I recognize,
creviced captures of my life.
I know her judgment to be my own.
"Nourished by Moon rivers
mythical cavern blooms
unseen by sunlight
glow green." Thus she sets the scene;
becomes the prophecy.
"Purest white simplicity
curved to suggest fragility
faith fed maiden ready for
plucking,
given in bondage to womanly woes,
hard rows to hoe
for that little bit of hug through
crying of night.
Fate of Trojan soldiers, sacrificed to lust.
Unbended, beg for the boon of drama
high adventure
sneaking into sad hotels
for a fix or a tumble.
Laughs,
deadly play,
danger, a real chance.
Barefoot in the snow
icy roads
winds so strong
I could not make you hear.
I thought you were my destiny.
These thoughts are far from clear;
but I believed
song lyrics from somber deities
would not lie, leave me
dying, fading into winter's grey
drifting clouds,
endless sorrow endured for naught.
Lost on this careless corner,
dreaming of oblivion, intent on visions
like rain
tapping against eternity's
vast windowpane.
Scenic serenity.
Nature's gradations of green
soothes tired eyes,
trembling nerves, throbbing veins.
Slivers of moonlight reflect
in withered refrains, unearth secrets
embedded in song
effervescing through cool pure air
cleansing the uprising nestling
set aflame
resurrected
tempered mettle,
pure, wise, tested
engorged with the will
to rise"
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