Springtime Poetry Fits

For the most part, I'm known for my prose.  But every now and then the Muses demand an offering of the poetic variety.  Who am I to argue?

One tribe
One heart keeping tempo
Life on Mother Earth
Join now in a ring of lights
Constellation Mankind
Sparkling blue orb
Spinning through anything's possible
Joy in the returning sun
Return to joy in one another
Celestial, terrestrial, humanity
"Respect for the rights of others
Is peace"

The Rotted Womb
Kick me
I'm a bogtrotting faeriedancer
No use as a vessel, not worth the hassle
Damn it
I'm still a woman
Still a mother, still a cynosure
Children still need
Even this bogtrotting faeriedancer
Nothing of the fruit of the body
Which can never grow in such saline soil
Maybe this world needs more universal mothers
Damn it
I'm still a woman

All In One
I am the sun
I am the consort
I am the companion
I am the healer
I am the comfort
I am the teacher
I am the lover
I am the wind
I am the touch
I am the laughter
I am the daughter
I am the hope
I am the sun

Reality Check
They tell me I cannot be that which I am
Scream I hunger jaded far and away
Safely entombed from the ugly light of day
You want me you hate me you fear me
Hunger to be me thorn within me petty slave
I'll tell you what I cannot be
Does love taste as good as hate?
Cocksure of my own salvation dawn
If I kill you will I quench this lust?
Scream I hunger jaded far and away

Fresca
Every inch a symphony
Drink of the lips I call my salvation
No cold nor heat only starscape thought
Lying sacred next to me
A Great Rite of our own kind
All this silence yet so much within
Did I earn this embrace?
Every inch quivering
Welcome home, weary one.

Ballad of Peyotera and Mescalito
Attend the song of the desert
Roasting sands heating passion's fire
The rattles shake sex's beat
What is naked, what is nude, what is bare
Halos of the sun turn tricolor, rainbow
Peyotera stretches out her arms
Tongue most with pulque yet craving satisfaction
She reaches for Mescalito
Pulling him to her fine breasts
The spines of Mescalito enter Peyotera
Piercing her good flesh, drawing her sweet blood
Now see Mescalito become Peyotera
He offers forth his divine white discs
Taking the universe in hand, knowing
"A little blood is worth the trade."
Peyotera and Mescalito understand
Mind filled from the astral font of everything
They swim in Aztec-colored splendor
Wrapped
The sun bloods sky and sand
Blood turns black and still they swim
"Will the Diableros run wild this night?"
"They know us, they are us, have no fear."
Mescalito rests deep, throbbing and full
Through the eagle's eyes soar and swoop and plunge
Less a thing of flesh, more a ray of light
Desert and Spirit
Enough of this world, let it be us.

Ess Tea Oh Pea
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Sin-king
LoCk thAt Aspir-
in-between your knees
ASK
THINK Beforewarned
do it
Oh, Baby.
OH! BABY!
Might he? HIPPO-CRITE!
MiTT-ends aren't GOOD ENOUGH
Remember Ae-Eye-Dee-Ess
Keep Your-Self
To Your-Self


Azrael came to me that day
That globe of ice and snow.
“This is his final illness,” he told me.
And I replied, “I know”.

“That he continues on this moment
Is not of Nature’s make.
What is soothed by this circus?
How much more suffering must he take?”

I cannot deny the tears in my eyes
Knowing there was nothing I could do.
Azrael offered release from this pain.
I said, “How you speak true.”

Azrael looked at him then
His jewel eyes filling with tears.
He joined me in weeping
For a man who had suffered for years.

Azrael came to me that day
That globe of ice and snow.
“This is his final illness,” he told me.
And I replied, “I know”.

Suntide
Color drops against fresh green
Revel in this time of glitter
Angel feathers brush on a crisp wind
The suntide heart beats in every light
Promises made and kept and made anew
Join hands in the shining circle
To be loved, love
Hints of spice and sugar
Hold fast, for suntide is yours
Embrace and be one with the warmth
Take flight into the rays of hope


CTHULHU!
Who art in R'lyeh
Exalted be Thy name!
Thy Empire come
Thine will be done
On land as in ether
Give us this day our daily lives
And revel in our follies
As we revenge ourselves upon those against us
For Thine is the Empire and the Power and the Glory
Of the Ancient Ones and of the day
Forever and ever and ever ad infinitum
HAIL CTHULHU!

Consequences
Believe that you shall get back what you give out
YOU HAVE BEEN WEIGHED
Believe in the obligation of your voluntary agreement
AND FOUND WANTING
Believe that you will be accountable for action and inaction
BY THE POWERS THAT BE
Believe that a concord is not a joke
THE SCALES WILL BE BALANCED
Believe you can expect reaction

Call of the Morrighan
Sons and Daughters of our Great Creatrix
Hearken to Me
I am a creature of the night
An angel of the shadows
I have taken my sip of Eternity
From Her appointed chalice
You need have no fear of the outside
In numbers we will find strength
Reach out to Me, I shall take your hands
Look to the West and raise your sword
Call Me away from my abode upon Saturn
From within the Womb of Time
Children, you are no less than I
You are vampire
You are the energy of the universe
Death, Fate, and Chaos shall favor you
Always in My name
By the Morrighan, have naught to fear

Ourobouros
Change into change into change
End cycles beginning cycles old cycles new
De-constructionist
Dehiscience
Run from the seeds
Run from the shadow
What is death to me?
Apocalypse
Baseline of eternity
Tempo of time itself
Maybe the end, or the evolution
Difference rendered null
Metered not by grace
But by a crooked smile
Laughing at, laughing with, just laughing
What is death to me?

Virgin Huntress
Melissae! Melissae!
Stand proud!
Beloved Artemis embrace me
To be a whole woman unto myself
Hail the chaste moon
The wild hare
Total complete satisfied and full
Virgin Huntress
Bless me in purity and light
Guide me well
By your unerring bow
I walk the path of me
Crescent aim crystal complete
Beloved Artemis embrace me

Twisted Girders
My tears have bled to concrete
Drawing lines in sands of iron shillings
Scars boast of battles fought and won
But never forgotten
What can be fixed when the pain is done
And the time is too late?
The agony festers
And I lay here, dead in my soul
Condemned to decay for loving too much
Wounds too deep, too thorough
To hope of healing
I turn to ice, I turn to iron
So hard to believe a joyous heart
Can shrivel to nothing
How tragic, how tragic, oh what a shame
What a stupid waste

Lady Bitten
Beautiful youth, why won't you look at me?
Nothing to fear, nothing to fret, only my face
Witness the caterpillar now embrace the butterfly
Look at me! Am I not fair?
My age is long but not so crippling
If the years are cruel, shattering my heart
I only want to gather you and celebrate you
In body so near in spirit another cosmos
How can a woman grown entice you?
The youth inside me yearns
Know that I tremble before you
A lady become a little girl
Can you ever understand the power of affection?
By love of earth and sky, just look at me
Let me see once in your eyes the fascination I know
I am a lady bitten by the soul in your eyes
Allow me to share my new wings

Requisite Darkling Poetry

Pseudobride
Alone or alone or alone
For where has he gone
Wordless, timeless, shameless
Tears resist in their bastion
No evidence of a shattering soul
Hours ago his love was true
Innocence scorned
She sees all from her sepulcher
Left alive after the slaughter
Who was beloved has rotted away
Love mutilated by design
May just as well be in his grave
Entombed with her trust and respect
Some moments have no recourse
In time too are they buried
Bride awakened to be a woman
Dead dreams breeding better hopes
Pink is not her color
Killed once, there is nothing to fear


Bottom-feeding bitch, get out of my life
Take your skank to someone who cares
Or are we running out of those?
Hey, I gave a fuck, and you took that fuck
You abused it like a drunken baboon
Now you're outta luck
All right hound, this is my kennel now
And you're not wanted here--do you get it?
I'm not peripheral, that would be you
Were you spoiled or spoiled like bad meat?
I might have cared but that ship has sailed
You don't know whom you're dealing with
What the hell can you do to me?
I've been through death, hell, pain, chaos
And denial was never my charted path
Enough crap and more, just get on the road
Go find your fortune because it's not here
Every lie forges another link
A chain wrapped securely around yourself
Glean your dignity and make yourself scarce


They tell me I cannot be that which I am
Scream I hunger jaded far and away
Safely entombed from the ugly light of day
You want me you hate me you fear me
Hunger to be me thorn within me petty slave
I'll tell you what I cannot be
Does love taste as good as hate?
Cocksure of my own salvation dawn
If I kill you will I quench this lust?
Scream I hunger jaded far and away


Change into change into change
End cycles beginning cycles old cycles new
De-constructionist
Dehiscience
Run from the seeds
Run from the shadow
What is death to me?
Apocalypse
Baseline of eternity
Tempo of time itself
Maybe the end, or the evolution
Difference rendered null
Metered not by grace
But by a crooked smile
Laughing at, laughing with, just laughing
What is death to me?


My tears have bled to concrete
Drawing lines in sands of iron shillings
Scars boast of battles fought and won
But never forgotten
What can be fixed when the pain is done
And the time is too late?
The agony festers
And I lay here, dead in my soul
Condemned to decay for loving too much
Wounds too deep, too thorough
To hope of healing
I turn to ice, I turn to iron
So hard to believe a joyous heart
Can shrivel to nothing
How tragic, how tragic, oh what a shame
What a stupid waste