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  • Second Sunset

    First one up, the whole world on my shoulders
    The embers of yesterday’s fire still emitting its glow
    I shake it up, another stick to rekindle my inner desires
    Hidden flames once dormant, now relish the new day’s activities

    Duty meets passion, the creative touch of hand and heart
    The hours pan out, senseless to the real flow of energy
    As wood turns to ash, and ash to soil, so the winds stir up another spirit
    The death on one leads to the birth of another, its name is mythicpoetic

    Ride on, wind up, the journey is a hero’s welcome
    Ride up, wind on, the land undulates to reveal its person
    Its many folds take the rider through a blurring scene
    Its face just a memory of countless dreams

    The setting sun has disappeared among her breasted fort
    The road meanders as a snake to its den
    But in that dappled shade beyond the crest of a hill
    I see it a second time from a dimple of her flesh

    Second sunset, second sunset diminishing beneath the sea
    As if passing away the time it quenches the day’s flight
    Dragging with it a gusty wind that cools the skin of the land
    As nature draws in, her silhouette is a night-blackened tan

    Why, from this ancient spot upon her prostrate navel
    I, emrys stood in full view of her boundless verdant scape
    Reaching up at every turn of my wispy view
    But then taken up in the cradle of her bosom sucking

  • Lord of Lords

    Looking around into the void
    Space is a frozen reticulate scene
    Positioned I am in the middle of time
    Stationed my vision to see from within

    The colours were bright, all angular in sight
    I turned on a point to capture the light
    Everything fused, the dusk before dark
    I made up my mind to follow a line

    Deeper and deeper I cut like a cleaver
    Carving and moulding a world for believers
    A place of my own, a zone all alone
    Beyond the dimensions of human retention

    God in creation, the God of Redemption
    Death is passing me flowers in heaven
    Born to a throne so fine does it shine
    I take my position to state the conditions

    Everyone heeds the word of the Tree
    An elder as high the mountainous sky
    Risen in deed and spreading his seed
    I take me a virgin to sanction a purging

    Heave I will into her Holy of Holies
    The land will tremble and rattle its temple
    A snake through her chasm to enrapture a spasm
    Shaken right down to reveal a new haven

    My utterance reverberates the walls of her cavern
    A single deep note so incredibly remote
    Plutonic and sonic it pierces with fierceness
    To raise upon a dais the most awesome enforcement

    The seas will rise and rivers will prize
    The banks will tear under the surge of an heir
    Give me light, I give you might
    Like no other to rule all nature’s fare

    I live in this world through day and night
    I find myself among the chosen few
    I reside on a rock that reaches to the sky
    And find myself on a shaft of light

  • TheGreenMan

    I am a wolf, I am an arrow, the hunted deer, the bull of a target
    The predator, the prey, the moss on an alder
    My feet are wet with the travel of rain
    My hair a mat of twigs and disdain

    In tooth and claw I was bourn on her back
    All nature produced me to widen her tract
    To regain what has been lost to the men of feign
    Desdcended are they from the families of Cain

    I grew to the size of a colony of honeybees
    And bred on the wing a sweetness for insurgency
    A thousand stings to the temples of perdition
    A thousand drones to the tune of sedition

    You are not what you seem Old man of the gean
    Your fruit is still green Like the mind that you wean
    You nurture revolt Like the insatiable goat
    Who’s cry is consort With a brazen throat

    I chopped down the ash to embody me a handle
    To wield with the fervour of a barbarous vandal
    With metal I sharpened the edge to a tinker
    To cut through the mire of Babylon’s bingers

    The holly bore me a hand with a pang of deliverance
    To curtail from the land the offending officiants
    She bore me a prick with a poignant remittance
    To go into humanity like a scourge unto pittance

    I blew me a scream from the wood of hornbeam
    To the slaughter of man upon the altar he shams
    His blood feeds the soil in revenge and spoil
    To replenish the earth from Mammon’s unrelenting toil

    Into the darkness I ventured within a mangle
    Amid the lianas where men are hung and strangled
    Caught up they are in the vines of their vices
    No rest for them as they struggle against reprisal

    I festoon myself in the clothing of evergreen armour
    Tending to the needs of the budding seedling farmers
    Who march in droves from their sacred oakley groves
    To trample down a succession of foreign hordes

    And in that most quiet place where the yew casts its face
    I bend me a bough that is strung with a vow
    To cast upon the assailants of my Gallic verdant glades
    A death as promiscuous as the rape of my virgin vales

    MerlynX

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