July 1, 2009

Current theme: X is for Xanadu (Inspired from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan)

For ABC Wednesday

This stately kingdom
Full of fantastic wonders
Awe-inspiring

Walls circled around
With fields of incense and spices
A city golden

Rolling ancient hills
With bright sun-laden forests
Reaching to the sea

The river Alph flowed
Subterranean and cold
Sacred and alone

Yet a chasm splits
The hills in a jagged cut
To reach down below

The eerie wailing
That paints the chasm walls
A woman in sorrow

Loss of a lover
Cursed, gaze of a waning moon
Lost somewhere in time

And the cavern wrenched
The chasm split ever wide
The stones ejected

Dark ground tears the sky
Volcanic fountain of stone
The hidden river rose

Just a brief respite
Then again hidden from sight
But the signs were clear

Kubla, on his throne
Heard a ghostly voice of lore
A distant land: war

June 24, 2009

Current theme: W is for Wings

For ABC Wednesday

Staring at the sky
This wishful thinking holds ground
In my realm of dreams

The clouds that pass by
A chirping Cardinal sings
Hoping, I look up

White shadow that glides
Like a calm breeze in Summer
Fade to a stillness

Those great wings unfurl
Stretch and spread in the Sun
Framing a halo

Reaching out, upward
So near and so far away
Always out of reach

Earth-bound, still hoping
For one day to soar above
With wings of my own

June 17, 2009

Current theme: V is for Valhalla (Norse Mythology)

For ABC Wednesday

The Hall of the Slain
Five hundred and forty doors
Lined with shields and spears

The Valkyries will ride
Across blasted battlefields
Searching for the dead

Dying in battle
Glorious end for a Viking
Then to be chosen

Become Einherjar
Ascending to Valhalla
Chosen warrior

Each door of the hall
Will host eight hundred of them
Always preparing

For the last battle
The battle called Ragnarok
When the hosts stream forth

And then Great Valhöll
Will resound with emptiness
Halls barren of souls

June 16, 2009

Current theme: Shadow

It's like my shadow
The memories of lost days
Forever present

Twists in my shadow
Ever moving changing shape
New directions call

Become my shadow
Adapting to the unknown
While remembering

I am my shadow
Insubstantial yet constant
Metamorphisis

June 15, 2009

Current theme: Pain

Sharp twinge in the knee
Feels like a blade in the joint
Uncomfortable

The run and the spike
Moving to protect the net
Something must have wrenched?

June 10, 2009

Current theme: U is for Unseelie Court (Fairy Mythology)

For ABC Wednesday

Domain of Winter
The treacherous and deadly
Hold court in shadows

Twisted generations
The Queen of Air and Darkness
Mischief and turmoil

Raid through nighted lands
Similar to the Wild Hunt
Beware Traveller

If caught by the Host
Torture and madness ensue
Avoid the Unseelie

June 8, 2009

Current theme: Thinking

The innovation
Build upon knowledge to grow
Asked then ostrasized

A thought to expand
Build to a new direction
Yet the narrow view wins

June 3, 2009

Current theme: T is for Temporary

For ABC Wednesday

A transient term
Temporary transgression
To take all this time

To tame the thoughtform
And turn this terrible trait
I must not tarry

This tale thins away
Toil through the tangled thought
Transcribe this treatise!

May 27, 2009

Current theme: S is for Seth (from Egyptian Mythology)

For ABC Wednesday

Under the bright Sun
The Upper Kingdom will thrive
Partake of the sand

In the baking heat
The treachery soon unfolds
Jealous Seth watches

Osiris and Isis
In happiness rule the land
Until the murder

Seth acts his fury
And dismembers his brother
The couple parted

Isis now searches
Scour the Kingdom far and wide
To reassemble

The dismembered corpse
Osiris now mummified
Rules the Underworld

But the couple's son,
Horus, desires justice
Avenge his father

A battle to control
Horus' Lower Kingdom
Seth's Upper Kingdom

In the last battle
Horus almost destroys Seth
But is stopped by Isis

Seth finally relents
And Horus gains control
Of the Two Kingdoms

May 20, 2009

Current theme: R is for Ragnarok (from Norse Mythology)

For ABC Wednesday

Horn of warning sounds
The final battle draws nigh
Begins Ragnarok

Rivers red with blood
The last stand of the Old Gods
Worlds torn asunder

But through the end time
Two hide and survive it all
Lif and Lifthrasir

Blessed by morning dew
Their descendents will rebuild
And the world goes on

May 19, 2009

Current theme: Azure Skies

Azure skies beckon
A vast blue and bright expanse
In all directions

Optimistic soul
Urged by the celestial
Light above this world

May 14, 2009

Current theme: There Is No Spoon

Look between the lines
And see the empty spaces
Filled with everything

Symbolic constructs
Metaphors to existence
Gather the knowledge

Patterns and meanings
The messages in Nature
There to understand

May 13, 2009

Current theme: Q is for Quetzalcoatl (from Olmec/Aztec/Mayan Mythology)

For ABC Wednesday

Domain of knowledge
The god of the morning star
Illuminates man

Wise Quetzalcoatl
He of the feathered serpent
Death and rebirth

The constant cycle
Now basking in the fifth sun
We, the fifth mankind

"Precious Feather Snake"
Teacher of civilization
Bringer of reason

May 12, 2009

Current theme: I got nothing

An empty mindset
This quiet dissolution
Words with no meaning