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Jun 2015 · 354
Immortal Logic
Logic dictates that if there is one immortal
Then all of us are immortal, as we are all one mind
This includes the others
Not only those of our kind
In energy, no dissipation
It can only reform, travel another path
So for those who lengthen their span, increase assets
Creating inbalance, I will say
We will all meet again another day
Jun 2015 · 605
World in worlds
The dream world is this world
Waking up can be confusing
Being born is confusing
Takes a while to learn coordination
To fly
Jun 2015 · 432
Druid's Daughter
She came to me all smiling
Asked to visit my friend the tree
She said she had a gift for it
And I thought some for me
I thought she meant go walking
And share a drink of wine
We went to the oak grove
Secret and sacred the place to me
I saw something not right then
I felt uncertainty

I had taken her to the special place
Where there's a glitch in time
I hadn't thought that she meant evil
Or that the place was mine
I had tended some occasionally
Then she took out the wine
She asked me which was special
As the One I stood beside
I indicated another
Knowing that One must hide

But the one I indicated
Was sapling of the first
It was my child doing the doing
I felt my heart would burst
When she poured the wine along it
And it ran down like blood
I had to walk away then and
I wandered round the wood.
I felt complicity
As no mother should

I walked for a long time
Then circled round to see
What she'd done to those I loved
She was speaking to the tree
I saw her from a distance gaze
Into branches I knew well
I knew that it was wrongdoing
That she'd made some kind of spell
I wondered why she waited
What she'd said I couldn't tell

I went and stood in trepidation
By the One I had betrayed
The summer sun was shining and
It's branches gently swayed
I asked why are we lingering
She said she must hang around
The tree must give a gift to her
But nothing had she found
In sadness I within the grove
On that fairy mound

I looked up to my old old friend
In regret and pain and love
And a tiny twig came to my hand
From the branches far above
I held it and I wondered
What kind of deal she'd done
She snatched it from my fingers
Like a prize that she had won
I told her it was not the tree
Where her magic had begun

Time passed she was successful
All her wishes did come true
But oh my friend how I regret
What became of you
I often went to see you
Often too apologised
Your sapling was so tall and strong
You so vulnerable beside
Black fungus on your branches
I saw there your demise

I had to tell the woodman
One must be taken out
Or we'd lose the whole oak grove
All the trees from roundabout
I went to my daughter
I said the tree has died
I went to where my friend had stood
Where remnants all strewn lie
She said it matters not to me
Afterwards I cried

Although my blood is in her veins
She's no longer friend or kin
I will not speak or smile at her
Or trust in her again
Druid's daughter gone wrong, along the lines of Morgan le Fay
Title changed
Jun 2015 · 335
End of the World
Planets suns moons live and are growing
Until they burst and form anew
I knew that diamonds are alive before It happened
In class I obstinately argued

Cats have nine lives not nine near misses
It rains cats so could rain horses too, and dogs
Ask any wanderer they'll tell you
It absolutely definitely rains frogs

Speaking of green there were two children
Appeared and by a village taken in
Being taught to speak and then questioned
Where had they come from as they had green skin

If all the people disappeared
It may be a moment of distress and tears
Then they'd reappear after a storm
Lightening crashing new hominids unborn

But if the world ended as Mars did
It would need watering
Jun 2015 · 203
Secrets
Here friends you know
My inner heart
Is yours

I can say here
What can be said
Nowhere

I can reveal
That which is not
Acceptable

We scream and smile
Our hearts reveal
Each other

No-one to judge
Or ridicule
Our secrets
Jun 2015 · 286
Song of the Night
At least when my breath leaves the last
I know which way to go

I was in a dream I heard them singing
I walked through the walls of the yard outside
I followed and there they waited for me

The path was a little track 'tween banks of moorland high
Not desolate but filled with flowers
I stepped gently so I didn't disturb
Voices in sweet harmony

I joined in the song and they twinkled brown eyes
As I finished they all began to rise
I went with them along the little track
To a wide open space in the moonlight at last
Follow, follow

We danced, I jumped, my feet sank into springy snowgrass
It was fun we were laughing in lovely dark shadows
Deep ultramarine and stars then I left them at last
Found myself sleeping on hard stones birds chattered above
With a song in my heart of unconditional love
What a gift
Jun 2015 · 210
Love
True love is always unconditional
Not possession of another being
It isn't ownership of property
There's either love or not no in between

True love is when you always love
Love is light that warms not hurts that sigh
Hormonal crave can't match the feeling
Of that belonging in another's eye

Whatever paths of mind you wander
That which you truly love will be within
Will travel with you never leaving
Warm you with fondness never pain
Jun 2015 · 312
Comfort For The Cast Out
A wise man once said that if you are hated by the world
As not belonging
Then you are loved by heaven

If you are hated by the world, not belonging
And heaven is a non existent Shangri-La
Then it is the universe itself who enfolds you
The whole appearance, cosmic mind
Jun 2015 · 375
Beyond the Gate
When god died in my heart forlorn I wandered
The Other said, "There is no God" the nettles bloomed
I sat upon the high hills in the beauty
Of oranges and greens and reds and blues

The Other took and showed me then the meaning
I saw that gods and death are intertwined
"There is no death" the words were gently whispered,
"There is no other moment now or passing time"

Into the realms of death I burst in fury
To save my child I saw them take away
I followed there in greyness skyless country
Determined full of anger unafraid

We traveled back along the path together
Where tangled roots soil clutched and skies of gray
To walk that green path few have ventured
The others watched us guiding danced and played

I know there is no heaven for I have been there
There is no end in endless energy
No gods or rulers in the place beyond us
Only Others who are wild and free.
Jun 2015 · 340
Omega
Find for me a forgotten place
Haunted only by creatures of the wild
A retreat to rest in where the stars will shine forever
Overgrown, untended where dead may walk in dream
Unsanctified, cast out and long forgotten
By all but those who live unknown by man
With tangled growth of unnamed flowers uncounted
In seas of grass the rough hewn stones between
Jun 2015 · 385
A Sunny Day in June
Imaginary blue lit by the shining golden orb
Warmth and lazy comfort transient day
Seems eternal
Trails of menace blend in and are ignored
A hoverfly rainbow shimmering wings sway
Tiny moments
High in pure enjoyment into blue a bird absorbed
Silver wings wide warm air lifts easily looks for prey
Jun 2015 · 338
Relativity
Fourteen, eighteen - far apart
Eighty four, eighty eight - same age
I was experimenting to see if I could write a ten word poem, so numbers were in my mind.
Jun 2015 · 268
The Passing of Mother
Her orifice was where I entered sleep
From there emerging into experience
She has left before me
So I am wondering

In the no-self of pre-death
Being expanded and contracted
May 2015 · 403
Mother of Cuchulain
You aren't the father of your son
His father is the other
Of one thing I am certain
That I am his mother

He was exchanged in fair trade
For unwilling contribution
They stole my unborn children
Then paid with retribution

Of this I cannot tell you
Or any of this world
The world is all illusion
I saw it all unfurled

He could conquer all of Ireland
He could rule the Egypt land
He could start the Roman Empire
Bury continents with sand

Of this I haven't spoken
To man or god or beast
To friend or foe because I know
What is to be his geist

His geist is told to noone
They told me in my dream
Of a gift ne'er can be given him
Or ne're 'gain will he be seen

So be his father well my love
Give to him your heart
And I will grieve forever
Long long after when we part
Cuchulain's father is said to have been one of the "gentry" which means one of the fairy folk.
May 2015 · 190
The child
Mother Earth is holding a child in her embrace
The child is unaware.
The child is watching as the world of safety crashes all around
And doesn't understand.
At that moment only Mother Earth cares for the child
And the child is unaware.
May 2015 · 352
Leaving
I walked away
I left behind everything and fled
There was nothing I could carry
I didn't walk towards
I walked away
My heart was black
I would not die for you
No thoughts of anything except to fly away
I waited for the moment when I could go
No other thought
Nothing else to do
There was no going back
May 2015 · 331
Batcat
I do like being loved by Batcat
Her purr is so lovely and sweet
She wakes me on time in the morning
When I give her something to eat.

There are moments when I am sleeping
When I wake in sort of a crush
And Batcat is sitting upon me
With a smile on her face of pure mush

Her sweet little face isn't pretty
But her love lights it up like the stars
She plays with all of my trinkets
So I keep all the best ones in jars

She sits by my side when I'm gaming
On catnip decidedly high
I yell as she walks on the keyboard
Then she looks at me wondering why

It's nice to be loved by Batcat
When I'm weary from working all day
But I wish in her frenzied attention
That she'd put her sharp claws away
May 2015 · 189
The Fall
I heard a loud pelting of rain at the door
Like as if I had never heard rain fall before,
Curious then I had to go see
But no sense could I make of what waited for me
They were frogs in a circle, a mound and a heap
Dark damp shapes all squirming  and some of them leaped
I stood and I wondered then the lady next door
Came to see why I looked and she told me some more
“Where could they have come from?” I asked in surprise
“From up there, they come often” she raised up her eyes
And I saw that she meant they had come from the skies
May 2015 · 233
Guilt Complex
In time there was a moment when I saw god and loved
In time there was a moment when I saw the other and died
I walked in the otherness and in the grey formed again a world around us
I hope it isn't all my fault.
May 2015 · 240
I and Eye
Outside of time there was time
Outside of space there was space
Rolling out my scroll the other
Selecting access point
I pushing forwards, to see
The other tutted.
Inside the eye
In greyness I
Pushing inwards to know
I was ejected
To find my own way home.
May 2015 · 457
In our world of pavements
In our world of pavements our fictions of mind
There are others around us who've left us behind
We have transient memory, blinkered and blind
Out of touch with reality - other earth kinds
Brother bear, brother bee, sister fox, sister bird
All cry to us constantly silent unheard
We're tight as a spring that needs to unwind

Our sweet images play and the transient pass
We see only reflections of things in the glass
Futures appear fleeting shadows surpass
The feel of bare toes in the dampening grass
Caught in the net we see through the holes
Creators of moment the futures untold
Unprepared and unmoving and caught off the path
Upon the mighty raging sea, whirlpools of fiery sparks, Catherine wheels of light and mist mix with the foam of time. Tossed by unseen movements a tiny globe is floating on the tides and flotsam swirls around its contours, attracted by invisible smooth ripples. Dashed to smooth curves, rare and precious treasure pebbles dance in the flotsam, around the tiny globe, lost in that vast sea, tossed aside by finned entities. Together they ride the foam of endless ocean.

Upon his bed of green soft flotsam, in peaceful tranquillity, gazing out at other treasure pebbles, upon the most precious jewelled blue sapphire, swimming in the azure sea, the purple man soaks up the rays of green made by the yellow globe.

The purple man sees and understands.

The lines of his world are shining silver light, for him there is no darkness in the night. Beset by cares he glances at the fractal flotsam and sees himself reflected, unfolding, timeless. Cares melt in mellow green.

The purple man fades and expands, his nebula fills the ocean wide and everything folds, unfolds; breathes in and out. Allfather stands beside the gate.

Where the fish swim and water snakes, where rivers run and wash the mountains silt upon the shore, there one day the star man came descending from a ship that sails the ocean Sky. The purple man was dreaming as before. From far away where people live in light, from where there is no hunger, fear or pain, where none deceive because there is no gain, where power is within and all are free, Wayland came.

Sitting by the river in the mud his fingers sinking into rich red clay he saw this world so full of music and in love, he sought the matrix seeds that dormant lay. Weaving the matrix then this Wayland made a pair of people from the clay and calling to the green fire of life, he gave them this garden free, to care for and in which to learn and play.

The purple man, who on his misty pillow lay said to Wayland then,

“Will you not stay?” The star man answered,

“I have so far to go and there is so much I want to see, you stay here awhile and tell them this: they are the keepers now of flotsam Zu, and you can teach them all that they must know. Say to them and get it right, 'you are the children of the light, travel where you will; you are not bound here by the clay. In all who say, “I am“ there is the life, and all who live are one in truth, this moment does not pass away.' I will return to visit you one day.”

Purple light shines green around the gate and all pass to and fro. There were the flying elephants of old, bright butterfly wings and iridescent scales, and fire within they blew and rose to mate high in the careless foam of space.

“I see, I see,” the purple man exclaims, “And I will leave a legacy.” Then taking out his notebook draws a stone and then another, places both together high upon the hill.

“All shall know!” he cries and gives them eyes and crowns. Thrones they hold with firm rock fingers, king and queen in rock of jewels tiny crystal shimmers. Eyes gaze out along the silver lines of truth, eyes of stone, and he cuts a small notch in the place the eyes alight their vision.

“Now all will know.” He spreads his cloak and sleeps beneath the hill in quiet satisfaction but dreams he did the task and lost in thought forgets. Stones stand waiting in dreams of eyes that only dreamers see and ride the light that only globe green rays can ride in pale yellow day.

“Forget, forget.” The whispers of the shining huntress sing sweetly and the residents of the butterfly house are soothed and filled with wonder. Dancing light reflects from yellow sand. Lifting hot feet to cool in baking oven rays.

Skating on tension, walking on invisible support a fish jumps from the water of a lake, cascading diamond spray around golden wings, then plunges back into the familiar world. Together all are one and life renewed. Wisps of purple smoke rise from a burning pile of old splendid green boughs now brown and brittle and delicious waves cook as chatter rises in anticipation. Toes muddy and wet warm as much as they dare and faces shine as globe of green gives energy. Wisteria sweet twists its tendrils on the gatepost and spreads its fingers wide to reach the stars.

The white and shining orb that, with full sails, is dancing with the flotsam sapphire tells her story in the ripples of a darkened pool. As in each drop the orb is, so it is with all and in all flows the green.

A grey cat-wolf with silky coat, who sweetly purrs sinks her teeth into feathers and warm nourishment flows from vein to vein. Carrying proudly to the doorstep leaves the gift but pricked purple fingers drip blood as tears flow for the tiny, feathered form.

Misunderstanding of the gift and weary sleep claim the mourner. In the corner stands a child of dusty clothes, untidy and ragged feathers. Grey coloured and brown his hair, face, and hair all dusty and brown. In mind of purple song was singing sad songs of green trees and fields of flowers and seeds. The child turns and eyes as old as time look deep as hands are stretched to greet. The purple man takes outstretched hands and they dance to music of the ocean deep.

“It cannot end, the green can never end, it just returns.” and round they dance, as the child is filled with light and transparent power touches purple hands and spirit surges to pull the purple man to stand before the gate.

Purple man rides on steed of unicorn; who sheds his twisted horn of white and says,

“With this you may write and tell the keepers of Zu to teach their subjects true.” His purple fingers hold the shining torch as on the saddle of his steed he carves the key, the binary. “All is here!” he shouts, “it is enough for all to be and all who will to see! Freedom is my gift to humanity!” Walking to the golden shore, he breathes the green fire to his steed, “Fly now and take my pattern home for all to learn.” The unicorn, now dragon born and horse is manifest, with fiery nostrils and shining fins swims into the long and winding currents of the thread of gold.

From that island home is cast the stone and off it goes into the seas of time, the circle seas. Music wafts around the globe as jewelled pebbles sing. The purple man, his eyes upon the depths, his head on soft flotsam pillow looks horizontally and wanders paths of space between.

A king of Zu in earnest thought upon the shore, a hornless unicorn has caught. A dragon horse who will not bear but shakes his saddle, burden gone he flies into the air. This trinket fine will grace the royal belt and a medallion the king does wear; magic token lost in time as those who knew could not stay and to the music danced away. Beyond the gate, into the ocean deep they to while away, until the wafting air lifts up the drops to bear.

Within the turbulence of that wild sea of calmness where regular tides disguise, mountains are ground, their pieces smashed and broken into shimmering beads of light. Each piece the matrix seed does hold within its crystal frame and life its energy. They shoot forth in forces, travel star to star, globe upon globe they circumnavigate and chaos brings movement to the stagnant ponds of flotsam, pools stirring, breathing life.

In Zu, the wanderers, who had no houses yet, who lived among the stars and trees, gathered round fires to eat their fruit and seeds at Mothers knee and told their oral histories.

Memories of mine and theirs and time distorts the tales so pictures made they to endure but meanings lost as careless child is watching dripping fat of meat and mouth is watering at the food to eat. Within the ring of warmth and fire the wild beast fears, the stories fall distorted on deaf ears.

“Remember well the lessons here: Once our world was full of fear. The seas rose up and swallowed whole the land of Zu, the air was cold. The globe its shining rays of green was hid beneath a reddish sheen of fire as worlds collided higher. The cold it came, the ice giants walked upon the land, so I was taught. Now eat this meat the hunter men have brought.” Within the shamans cave the purple man sleeps and walks on paths of many feet.

On bellies laid upon a hill of hot dry golden sand, the purple man looks down with his band of friends upon the tall city gate below. Beyond he sees the golden domes and tall white towers of so fair a place. A white wall stretches far as he can see and by the gate two fierce lions guard with swords of shining steel.

“I know not how to enter there.” he says, but then finds he is inside, alone and the white city walls are high around him. Trepidation grips his thought and on tiptoes he intrudes in wonder, clinging to the walls. The giant who stoops to lift him smiles, gold flashes from ornaments, turquoise beads on olive skin, and strong muscular arms pick up the purple man who looks around and down to see the white towers are but square pools of proportion huge. The strong hands plunge him down into clear water cool, so fresh it cleans, from showers of silver droplets a babe is raised up to the shining pale blue sky.

Seeing a tortoise then beside the waters edge, the purple man, still having horn of unicorn, inscribed the pattern of the nine with movement of the all, so that he would remember all that Wayland said. Then silence and dreams were once more inside his head.

Purple man sat at the foot of a great tree. A red furred squirrel ran up and down the bark, collecting food and going deep to keep its secret safe. Above the tree the globe was shining bright and yellow light was all around. The good folk who dwell in light transparent crystal vessels sang their song for all to hear and as the squirrel gathered food she heard their voices clear. Then, scampering along the ground quietly in case the purple man should wake, she buried down to the deep pools where three watch the water that feeds the sap. She hummed the song but had not listened to the words and got it wrong before those there to guide the destiny.

“Oh, careless child who listens not when at the fire, who now will tell the history?” The purple man saw the green sap of the tree within and understood.

“Make a machine!” the keepers say, “for you are bound by clay. Rip out the sapphires heart and give us power so that in darkness is the light of day. We have the words and wisdom here,” the keepers fight and hide the secret words, “the nine is ours not yours to know, we only have the power, is it not so? We are your keepers, guardians true; we would not lie to you.

“We took the power from Mother of the tribes to keep you safe from beasts who roam. They would not stay outside the ring of warmth and fire but come inside, devour you in your home.

“The seas rose up before and swallowed Zu, the people perished all except a few. Those few were chosen by the unicorn and here to us a tortoise bore its horn. We stole the fire that came on flotsam Zu, we have the lightening here entombed, the stars that fell in dire punishment, we kept them to remind you of your doom.

“We took the prophets all and kept their words, we wrote them down and only we can give those words to you. He who was here is gone for now but will return, to judge all those who will not heed our rule.

“We must make war to punish those who hate, we must sacrifice to please the beast. Then within our boundaries you will be safe in service to our cause for we are wise.”

The slaves of Zu who toil and sweat all day, all fearful of whatever comes their way; the slaves who have no water and no food and not because they have not loved the good, the slaves who weep for flotsam Zu, the ones who try to do what they believe is true, all listened to the keepers and were quiet, they had no heart to war and die in riot. They had no heart to disobey the rules well taught from their first day. Some turned and struck their fellows in dismay.

The feet upon the pavement hard in hardness crunch and shocks run up the legs and bounce the brains of those who cannot see. Purple streaks the sunrise comes and petals yawn to greet the sailing globe of yellow breathing green. Herded and obedient, the subjects of the kingdom of Zu wake and queue politely as keepers set the tasty morsels. Wheels and tides, time and ocean turn as globe spins in eddies and careless diamonds sprinkled in the flakes of cornfields tell the story unfolding.

Shadows play. The sickle shines its ****** sweetness horned and lovely; sparks of stars surround the misty blue. Knees and cries on time forget the sly insertions and nourish soon forgotten virtues.

A bell is ringing on the shore. Sound bounces wave to wave and lost in purple wandering a passing bee remembers that it cannot fly and hurriedly taking scissors cuts a fine raft of leaf, pointed as a ships bow and hops aboard to surf and glide on currents of the sky.

From the deep oceans light, Wayland sees and sends a whisper from his mind, the purple man is dreaming still among the many others of his kind.

“Its time to wake now, of slumber is enough. Zu needs to have its gardeners intact, its time to plant the Iris bulbs to grow in pasture and in desert before the ice comes back. Seeds of the rainbow must be sown on every track. When summer dawns on frosted fields, fingers of warmth probing into the hearts of seeds that sleep, come now its time for growing. Plough the furrows deep. When summer dawns on frosted fields, fingers of warmth probing into cold frost hardened hearts. Awake, its time for knowing!”

The purple man in forest sees green light of yellow globe is shining energetically its light on all, and one with all he walks in joyful song. Along a branch a leg is stretched, a long leg, there a person sits within the tree, smiling song of life,

“He's just like me!” the purple man does not intrude but curiosity is wakened as the man is standing tall and then is gone before his eyes of sight. A figure dressed in light, not vaporous, a solid man who flickers on and off he sees. The purple man perplexed is wondering, when at his side a figure tall and grey is standing, branches on his head, without a face in the full light of day. The purple man looks for the face, the seat of senses known to know who is it there and meets an eye as old as universe. The eye is looking for the same and as they meet in trap of combined senses all, there is a spark and purple man is travelling then, he is not in the planet Zu at all. The visitor who comes to show the way gives him a choice of paths to take, he forward walks along a narrow lane with strange and pointed leaves of maize. Rustling in the plants the other chases past, he greets him at the other side, and man of light is shining on and off out of the gate the purple man to guide. The rainbow bridge connecting all the worlds, the green path that all who live must share, the purple man looks for the visitor but turning finds that nothing's there. Then rippling wave of green comes flowing through the woodland and the day, it passes through all that lies before, and purple man is standing in its way. Green fire! The life! The sap of tree! I see! His spirit soars as Wayland flies away.

Looking down at hands and feet with rainbows shine, in great delight he finds he is not purple now but made of light sublime and at his step the irises spring bright.
May 2015 · 153
Untitled
I walk beneath the nameless stars their faces known to me
Knowing that where ere I dwell beside me they will be

— The End —