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Khristov Dubois Nov 2011
Through the seas i travel,

all my sins unraveled.

Lamenting across my shame,

Penthus is thy name.


As the waves they break me,

a thousand knifes upon thee.

Broken, scarred and lame,

Hippasus is thy name.


Beneath the waters that straiten,

in swathes of desolation.

The amaranth of my pain,

Prometheus is thy name.


This tomb, this grave, this shrine,

my fight, my struggle to climb.

A hopeless perpetual game,

Sisyphus is thy name.


Now darkness takes the light,

as day becomes the night.

Reaching in endless vain,

Tantalus is thy name.


No longer are the stars,

the minutes and the hours.

Nor feel the dancing rain,

to wash away the blame.


And never again the sunshine,

nor any of God's design.

No more will flicker this flame,

for nameless, is thy name.
Anthony Pierre Jun 2023
The brain,
what a glorious thought.
Surprisingly,
its splendour seems less remarkable
at times
Its purpose misunderstood
Where is its history?
Thoughts mined of Thoth's mind
Fossilised, it remains
in warm pellucid waters
Shallow as my human intellect

Deeper meditation takes forever
greys turns white undiplomatically
with all its human prejudices
Grey matters: its a matter of fact

It glows and grows
synapse after synapse
to perfection.  
A Shrine of Muses.
Each crenulated shelf follows
consciously
Serendipitous

Consider its vastness
lobe to lobe
hemisphere to hemisphere
where water entombs it
A hippocampus
Like Hippasus submerged
beneath open and violent sea
A cage for wild and hostile imaginations

To find its perfection
leave your thoughts behind
Dive deep outside yourself
The ocean ends where
reason reefs
the barbaric wreck sinks
senses are subdued
descend in slowly
The school
The sun
The rays
The colours
The species
The knowledge of life
The brain: Marvelously imperfect
The Brain Coral.

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