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I was bullied Im depressed I cry myself to sleep at night hoping that one tear might burn a hole in my cheek So ask me one more time why i wont believe in a benevolent god When he clearly left me out Like everyone else did I tried praying I read I used logic So tell me again why i dont believe in god When he answered you But pushed my mail aside like spam I converted I lived happily I became humanist spiritualist So ask me again why i dont believe in god When im happier without him When im still depressed but with hope So ask me again to ‘find god’ When I wasn't the one who lost him I escaped him
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Oct 15, 2025
Oct 15, 2025 at 7:04 AM UTC
Lost him
I decided to gather some Intell To find some skulls and antlers But I never thought I would be found In the forest The first place to find the deer skulls And antlers But alas the fall leaves Are in the way of the sights and sounds I try to uncover everything But there we just too many leaves But I shall try another day to find the bones I want For my healing, Healing that I need to do After a horrible relationship A relationship that boardered on abusive Psychologically abusive! Seeing the forest I see my hospital My pharmacy and my doctors office We should still be intouch with nature And reap the benefits emotionally and physically When we still can Skulls, antlers and crystals my medication Other than the crap from the actual drug store! As some people find this strange and even evil, It is a more healthy coping mechanism Than the ******* bottle or the drugs, or cigarettes! I find anything is better then the bottle or destructive Behaviours of man That is why I got to the forest to find Heal and This is my hospital This forest Is my doctors office And pharmacy As well as my western medication too This helps me cope with life and loss! So why don’t you go out in the bush and find something. This thanksgiving I am thankful for the nature And it’s healing properties
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Oct 14, 2025
Oct 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM UTC
Skulls and antlers
We do not sleep. Our all-seeing eyes do not close to rest. Our ethereal bodies don’t have such mundane needs. But we do dream. Vivid imaginations are one of our token traits. Through our dreams, we create schematics and prototypes. We test theories and explore ideas in our superconscious minds. After all, human… What is mankind if not a dream that the gods decided to write down in dirt and blood?
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Mar 7, 2025
Mar 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM UTC
72/11 "A Deity’s Dream"
~ *Ladies-in-waiting reflecting on a fragile state of mind precarious creatures, these hunters of coal that outlines both eyes and words black paint for blue girls, they pray in a circle for their queen's wedding night to be one of celebratory rapture deep into the looking glass they peer for a sign, a soul, a stigma, but cannot see beyond their own glib faces a universe ago they caparisoned as pixies in sunflower corsets, twirling in a centrifugal forest tonight in eclipse, in their all-together, they merely wear masks of their former selves the firelight dramatically shifts in bacchanalia pratfall --the oblong menace of their smiles, fingers and navels dancing to the age of Sideria* ~
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May 24, 2024
May 24, 2024 at 2:28 PM UTC
The Mirrors of Misunderstanding
They get the holidays they stole from us They get Ostara, Yule and Samhain Easter, Christmas and Halloween They get the crosses on greeting cards Their bibles in store aisles They are praised for those crimes against us How they hung and hunted us Drowned and undressed us They get to stand on their pedestals with megaphones Outside of schools and businesses Door to door through neighborhoods And preach about their hate Tell us no matter what we believe If it is not God then it must be sin That if they do not stop us Then Lucifer will win Warts on noses, green skin and greasy hair That is how a witch is pictured everywhere Cackling and cursing, evil, wicked and vile That is the image that they gave to us after they robbed and ***** us They mock us in their media and treat us like comedies Turn our magic into fiction and throw out the science They make a mockery of our practice, spread all these lies of what it is not Take the death card in tarot, the Tv says it means you’ll die But a witch will tell you it means a new chapter of your life Double double toil and trouble Just once I’d like to see their plans foiled Fire burn and cauldron bubble Watch as we rebuild from the rubble Never ask us why we have such anger Why we don’t want to stand around your manger Because when people say the word witch They say it like they call a woman *****
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Oct 14, 2022
Oct 14, 2022 at 1:04 AM UTC
Proselytism
They say when one door closes another opens. 100 more have opened in its place This don't will never shut. I drank of his blood Swam in his tears I watched the flames surround me And come out the other side I waged war with the demons within I found peace in His grace I found love in a ravens embrace Hold a gun to my head And I have lived 1000 more times They say when one door closes another opens. The next door is open Time now for the next greatest adventure
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Nov 30, 2020
Nov 30, 2020 at 2:09 PM UTC
The Open Door
Shadows of winter remain here Unclad by the early spring sun Echoes chilled by the passing time Seasons rebuild nature’s beauty Torn between worlds, the then and now Reborn in the cool forest glades Life on earth must return again In the blessed birth of springtide’s call Walking amid awakening trees Sleep talking and stretching out limbs Towards pale sun rays stirring the ground The age-old tale is told again Turning away from winter’s blues The seasons turn in verdant hues
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Oct 29, 2020
Oct 29, 2020 at 9:16 AM UTC
Forest Spring
Everyone loses their way Lost in their chasmic minds Lost in their bismol worlds Lost in their abysmal emotions Some find a light to guide their way A melody; a sign; a feeling Others search for a distraction Someway to forget the failure and lose the guilt But for me, Hermes guides my path Like a soul into Hades, He always brings me home Back from my friendly worm named Loneliness Back from my terrible sense of direction Back from my endless attempts at self sabotage He makes me see the truth; the reality; the destination Everyone is all so full of deceit and corruption Pleasing themselves by pleasing others Becoming someone else to be above all others Blinded by envy and seething with a jealous rage They hold out their open hands to me But he whispers in my ear "It's all a lie" And I keep my hand down by my side And watch as they go to the next person Holding their hands out just the same And chaining the gullible fools with honeyed words and empty promises Binding to them now like a contract over their souls Enslaved to the whims of the corrupt He has me dream of lands across the sea Speaking a tongue that is not mother to me I fall in love with these foreign things The sights he sends me, the sounds, the smells All the excitement of leaving to somewhere new With no fear of the unknown, trusting only In the path on which he guides me I see it now, so far away I reach my hand out and I feel it on my fingertips I close my eyes and the words slip into my mind With every phrase I learn, the freer I become And I walk his path with knowledge I am safe In meditation he guides me On a starlit beach I find myself sinking my feet into the sand Swiftly he approaches with a grin He holds his hand out to me and I feel at ease No strings or "you-owe-me's" await And with winged feet he sends me back Gently placing me in my body And I awaken safe and sound
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Jun 1, 2020
Jun 1, 2020 at 2:56 AM UTC
Hermes; my patron god
Everyone loses their way Lost in their chasmic minds Lost in their bismol worlds Lost in their abysmal emotions Some find a light to guide their way A melody; a sign; a feeling Others search for a distraction Someway to forget the failure and lose the guilt But for me, Hermes guides my path Like a soul into Hades, He always brings me home Back from my friendly worm named Loneliness Back from my terrible sense of direction Back from my endless attempts at self sabotage He makes me see the truth; the reality; the destination Everyone is all so full of deceit and corruption Pleasing themselves by pleasing others Becoming someone else to be above all others Blinded by envy and seething with a jealous rage They hold out their open hands to me But he whispers in my ear "It's all a lie" And I keep my hand down by my side And watch as they go to the next person Holding their hands out just the same And chaining the gullible fools with honeyed words and empty promises Binding to them now like a contract over their souls Enslaved to the whims of the corrupt He has me dream of lands across the sea Speaking a tongue that is not mother to me I fall in love with these foreign things The sights he sends me, the sounds, the smells All the excitement of leaving to somewhere new With no fear of the unknown, trusting only In the path on which he guides me I see it now, so far away I reach my hand out and I feel it on my fingertips I close my eyes and the words slip into my mind With every phrase I learn, the freer I become And I walk his path with knowledge I am safe In meditation he guides me On a starlit beach I find myself sinking my feet into the sand Swiftly he approaches with a grin He holds his hand out to me and I feel at ease No strings or "you-owe-me's" await And with winged feet he sends me back Gently placing me in my body And I awaken safe and sound
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There is only one true God So I was told All others are false It is He that rules It was Him who created life Yet the old stories of others linger Those who He has proclaimed as false Those who came before him He is a jealous man Hellbent on ********** His followers wish to conquer in his name To burn all the other gods from the sky But they refuse to leave They linger in myths and stories of old His dark desires will not ***** them out A dictator in disguise No more say I Bring back the gods of old The tales of the Greeks The hymns of the Hindus The legends of the Egyptians All the gods who were snuffed out By His “holy” light Which only cast a dark shadow upon humanity They say God is infallible Perfect beyond compare All things good All things great Arrogance is His The gods of old had faults and flaws The gods of old suffered as we suffered They are closer to humanity than Him They are closer to the Earth than Him I want the old gods back They were better than Him
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Jan 2, 2020
Jan 2, 2020 at 10:30 AM UTC
A Jealous God
I saw a satyr in the woods, A centaur in the meadow; Travelling on, I remarked on a fawn Hallowing out reeds for a pipe. The world around me was green, The water ran clear, cold and fresh, The air I breathed was historic. Crosses were in the future. No Mecca to visit, No Temple to rebuild. I am a beach *** a sun-worshipper, a tree hugger. I will worship the dove, not the sacrifice. I will homage the god of the kingdom that is here, Before she rejects her offspring.
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Dec 30, 2019
Dec 30, 2019 at 9:49 AM UTC
A Pantheistic Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxI3t67cspw Listen and recite on tempo with the space between preferably -------------------------------- Let us sneak past the beholders And fall through the hedge Twist and tuck your shoulders Careful not to slip the ledge Where that speaking plant rose 'Till all noise is scant Pass the root that slows 'Nd Keep the leaf that quickens Follow the vine that goes Passed the sign of picking When the lone holt rises And the deep mire thickens There are three stones stricken Standing of similar sizes There it is the time of all ages 'Nd it doesn't matter what your age is Where the wind flower is always a toss And where the rocks are growing on moss I have had it with signs and maps At this next crossroad I will try to get lost Nothing feels familiar and I've lost all name Here life feels only a process, maybe a game.. I'm feeling wayward I hope you are feeling the same Forget all clocks We will look in each others eyes to tell time Forget all forms The great Dao is a mirror and you are a mime Whistle 'gypsy' to meet a sekret of my kind Passage to a garden of thistle and thyme five fold colors from the canopy above rest warm and low on the mushroom land of love With draping crowns of brugmansia and fragile ground of foxglove tip toe the maze and careful where she lept for where she landed is where many had wept the life giving rivers we swim are the same some were sweptt or have you ever thought that where you are now is where once a soul's body was left? where one is complete another in this life is bereft so respekt what beyond that hedge lies everything may be separate now, but everything is one when it dies And if I were to shapeshift into a fish my swirling ocean, i would call my sky And if that fish had one wish Would be that the world would never run dry See your spells of intention and what you imply dictates what your world is run by And that is beautiful no one can deny But quick! cover with the shade of mind because beholders of beauty are everywhere yet some give the evil eye so I shade with the hedge of night And gaze with my third of sight so my body can be hidden and my soul in soaring flight Because something in the air in the city doenst feel right But I see it in every one of your eyes, your own starry night if you are still weary on the path to unite this spells scroll recite in one lord and lady in darkness and in light i cast this as tinder for your soul to ignite
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Nov 27, 2019
Nov 27, 2019 at 10:15 AM UTC
Shhh... Come with Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxI3t67cspw Listen and recite on tempo with the space between preferably -------------------------------- Let us sneak past the beholders And fall through the hedge Twist and tuck your shoulders Careful not to slip the ledge Where that speaking plant rose 'Till all noise is scant Pass the root that slows 'Nd Keep the leaf that quickens Follow the vine that goes Passed the sign of picking When the lone holt rises And the deep mire thickens There are three stones stricken Standing of similar sizes There it is the time of all ages 'Nd it doesn't matter what your age is Where the wind flower is always a toss And where the rocks are growing on moss I have had it with signs and maps At this next crossroad I will try to get lost Nothing feels familiar and I've lost all name Here life feels only a process, maybe a game.. I'm feeling wayward I hope you are feeling the same Forget all clocks We will look in each others eyes to tell time Forget all forms The great Dao is a mirror and you are a mime Whistle 'gypsy' to meet a sekret of my kind Passage to a garden of thistle and thyme five fold colors from the canopy above rest warm and low on the mushroom land of love With draping crowns of brugmansia and fragile ground of foxglove tip toe the maze and careful where she lept for where she landed is where many had wept the life giving rivers we swim are the same some were sweptt or have you ever thought that where you are now is where once a soul's body was left? where one is complete another in this life is bereft so respekt what beyond that hedge lies everything may be separate now, but everything is one when it dies And if I were to shapeshift into a fish my swirling ocean, i would call my sky And if that fish had one wish Would be that the world would never run dry See your spells of intention and what you imply dictates what your world is run by And that is beautiful no one can deny But quick! cover with the shade of mind because beholders of beauty are everywhere yet some give the evil eye so I shade with the hedge of night And gaze with my third of sight so my body can be hidden and my soul in soaring flight Because something in the air in the city doenst feel right But I see it in every one of your eyes, your own starry night if you are still weary on the path to unite this spells scroll recite in one lord and lady in darkness and in light i cast this as tinder for your soul to ignite
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come now i welcome you and as the sign of my invitation i’ll smear some of my blood over my thoughts before i write them down come burning like the ember at the end of my cigarette which i burn ritualistically like a sacrifice for sin come, i’ll slay swine and serpents to lay out for you forgive me, it is all i have to give but i understand that it is the sincerity of the giving and not the gift which you desire and for your thirst i’ll give a bitter gall that is all i have, for your thirst or for mine but come come in time i pine away like every day you ever made i ask for no angels to herald your arrival lest wiser men arrive and present you with better gifts than i can afford come Lord
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Aug 4, 2019
Aug 4, 2019 at 10:30 AM UTC
Invocation
It's a phrase I often playfully use to describe my queer self. ("Were you ever?"my beloved Alison uniformly says in jest). But now it seems unusually apt in another way: As I swann around this empty house, the decor, the photos, the ornaments and old perfume bottles overwhelm me. My head is brimming with memories as I glance past these fragments of our shared lives. My loss is palpable and yet inescapable under this roof. She surrounds us on the walls, hanging over us with her beaming smile amidst the family photos. I want to escape but I can't: In a mad way I want to believe that something of these relics around us can bring her back somehow. She did after all carry something of the old Irish paganism with her. But, no, this ancient shamanism is sadly absent in a room drowned out by every token of Catholicism you can think of. It's all too much for this first born to take and yet she is still here in the tiny gaps of these precious artefacts.   Hidden away where you can't see her. So, no, being honest right now - I'm not quite straight yet. The head and heart will realign soon but not with this gnawingly painful grief. Pray for me.
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Nov 13, 2018
Nov 13, 2018 at 7:43 AM UTC
Not That Straight
I am relinquishing my fears today No longer shall I be too afraid to be who I am I am not ashamed of my faith I shouldn't hide behind a decade of prosecution We've moved past the burnings and the witch hunts Let them come at me with their torches and pitchforks It isn't my gods and goddesses who seeks the path of destruction
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Oct 30, 2018
Oct 30, 2018 at 10:24 PM UTC
Do not deny a part of you
There are old ways that we have forgotten, sacred to our ancestors generations ago. Far before men named Jesus Christ Muhammad and Confucius, our ancestors knew the ways to live as enduring and resilient as the seasons. Songs and rites, gods as ancient as the deep green forest, and stories of the rise and fall of great men: Chieftains, farmers, warriors, musicians whose songs echoed over young world. The world was harsh then, as cold as the towering bedrock of the mountains. We gave thanks for what we had, both to the gods and to ourselves. The choice was to live strong, work hard or die like a wounded animal. The world was fair in the days of old, our cares cleansed through sweat and blood, and in the crushing weight of the labor of survival we found peace. Today, our peace is lost. We have nations, such foreign things, a group of people enslaved by custom. The green forest has become the fireplace of a world too gray, the unforgiving mountains mere pebbles beneath our trembling, dying feet. Though our lives are calm our minds are shattered, the breezes of indifference blowing away the forgotten ways of old.
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Oct 22, 2018
Oct 22, 2018 at 11:45 AM UTC
The Old Ways
You say your God is your rock and your light But light can be blinding And rock may roll No longer do I feel faith In an outback church house Singing with the preachers
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Sep 4, 2018
Sep 4, 2018 at 3:16 AM UTC
Faith
Bide the Wiccan law ye must, in perfect heart and perfect trust. Eight words the Wiccan Rede fulfill An' harm ye none, do what ye will. What ye put forth comes back to thee, so ever mind the rule of three. Follow this with mind and heart, Merry ye meet and merry ye part.
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Dec 5, 2017
Dec 5, 2017 at 12:12 PM UTC
The Wiccan Rede
Cutting through devils flesh, bones and marrows, Healing sorrow, it's wielders never cold or shallow, All Divinity or Nature destroyed is healed and harrowed, Behold, the gift of the Goddess: The Sword of Shadows. Despite cold hearts making our world a burning hell, Despite many angels, light bearing souls, who somehow fell, Despite those taking pleasure from greed, envy and sin, Warm Hearts realize The Goddess is indeed our kin, Despite endless waves of lives and death, Despite moments when even good has lost life and breath, Despite the sinuous evil and creeping dark, One receives his Sword when Healthy with Halo and Heart. For a Sword Bold of times Old, your heart must stay warm, Even when anger for a purge starts and your mind 's a storm, May every plot against Humanity forever fold or foil, A Sword waiting for you, end all turmoil. With Knowledge gained either thought the art or craft, Sword of Shadows, Avenging all pains, even future and past... Only tears shed are that of Love and Joy, no remorse, To allow our dear Goddess in our world, All rejoice. A Sword of Shadows for Hearts Brave and True, Our Goddess Loves all, and has Sword for you.
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Nov 1, 2016
Nov 1, 2016 at 4:00 PM UTC
The Goddess' Sword of Shadows
Athena Athena the Warrioress Athena the Sorceress Athena the Healeress Athena the Priestess Athena fights eternally for Light Her Heart shines forever Bright And for Eternity Athena will slay Those who abuse sentient beings in any way She is the One who fights for Eternity Until all sentient beings become a Divinity
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May 24, 2016
May 24, 2016 at 12:27 AM UTC
Athena
The Mysterious Goddess There is a Unknown Goddess, shrouded in Mystery, Her Temples; desecrated, destroyed since history, Since time immemorial she has existed, and somehow, whispers of Wisdom persisted. The points She makes, mostly missed, Knowledge She offers, widely dismissed, For Her songs of virtue, and of beauty, Are viewed as primitive, exposed so crudely. Many sail to a far away place, To see only followers, Legacy disgraced, Whether be it the place; Her Sacred Books speak of: An Imaginary Heaven or the Hell beneath us. However She guards Wisdom like forged iron doors, Her mind sharp like a Thousand Cleaving Sword, Her Eyes penetrating like a piercing lance, Yet when She see her followers, at glance... The Universe shall sing in song and dance, as if all for one; and self in trance. For darker days to come, many a day without Light or Sun, Time, one evil and ignorant to strike war drum. Brightly, unison, shall strike the final blow. With the Sword of Wisdom, the Sword of Swords: Better days for all,for evil, will lose, the final war.
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May 24, 2016
May 24, 2016 at 12:36 AM UTC
The Mysterious Goddess