Thursday, February 10, 2022

Vanish Into Dreamless Time

Vanish Into Dreamless Time
© Surazeus
2022 02 10

Because we vanish into dreamless time 
when death erases our names from the world 
I want to step forward on spinning hope 
and dream the complex beauty of your soul 
this hour wind blows between our mirror minds 
to share our love before we disappear. 

So many people have lived on this Earth 
over one hundred million years of change, 
sprouting from bodies of aggressive hope, 
to live entire dramas of conscious love, 
yet every soul, rich with experience, 
long ago vanished into dreamless time. 

So I can only imagine their names, 
picture their faces in dream of my mind, 
compose narrative of their story line, 
and watch them relive progress of desire 
with sympathy for passion of their hearts 
that have since vanished into dreamless time. 

I feel conceptual vision of their minds 
glow awake again in my dreaming brain 
as I imagine feelings of their hearts 
that motivate their actions of desire 
to pursue happiness of peaceful joy 
before they vanish into dreamless time. 

Alone at midnight in my lightless home, 
while my wife and children dream in safe sleep, 
I sense every soul who has ever lived 
swarm around me in shimmer of desire, 
so I feel their loneliness in the wind, 
and weep they vanished into dreamless time. 

Small and fragile in vast canyon of love, 
flame of my spirit flickers in fierce wind 
of mute eternity, so I sing name 
of every person who has ever lived 
in single wordless melody of sorrow 
till I too vanish into dreamless time. 

Stark ache of loneliness from each lost soul 
pierces my heart with lightning strike of love 
so, self-aware consciousness of I Am, 
before I vanish into dreamless time, 
swells vast as the white whole of galaxies, 
thus I feel every conscious being alive. 

Though we will vanish into dreamless time, 
our names and stories erased from all minds, 
I sing eternal loneliness of love 
which connects my brain to billions of brains 
as we sing together in global choir 
to feel each other awake in the dark. 


My Vagabond Heart

My Vagabond Heart
© Surazeus
2022 02 10

My vagabond heart refuses to wait 
for sorrow to transform this wretched world 
of random suffering from disease and war 
to sweet paradise where nothing goes wrong, 
so I escape dark maze of poetry gangs 
to walk in signless forests with mute owls. 

No conscious soul ever returns from death 
for, once the system of chemical functions, 
which generates the soul of consciousness, 
breaks down from disruption of the life spark, 
the animating soul of human thought 
dissipates into swirls of mindless dust. 

Pausing on the bridge over troubled waters, 
woven from rainbow sinews of despair, 
I gaze back at vast city maze of towers 
that shimmers gold in swirls of evening mist, 
and wonder about lives of faceless strangers 
doing their jobs like bees in honey hives. 

The giant airplane roaring among clouds, 
angelic wings of silver arrogance 
spread wide with stiff observance of blind laws, 
crashes into the bank in blaze of flames, 
erasing thousands of people from time, 
so brains with memories vanish to nothing. 

I wonder if any of those lost souls 
are strong enough to stand from smoking wreck 
and walk away from destruction of truth, 
people with whole lives of experience 
now appearing before me in their death 
as faceless mannequins of mindless gods. 

Climbing ancient stairs of dinosaur skulls, 
I walk through windy halls of Duino Castle 
to find the ghost of Orpheus by the hearth 
drinking wine with Seraphim in black suits, 
so I don leather cape Dracula gave me 
and carve names of the dead on granite walls. 

Breaking open door to the Secret Club, 
where laureate poets gather to gamble, 
the editor of the poetry journal 
shoots me in the back with critical praise, 
so I transform into the moon-eyed owl 
and fly in swirls with fierce Icarian wings. 

Falling nine days and nights from the Dream Tower, 
the wingless angel clutching cracked guitar 
falls from Heaven of the Poetry Elite 
to blast open cave of Hell for himself, 
so he sits by the fire of honest truth 
and sings in harmony with ocean waves. 


Wednesday, February 9, 2022

My Pilgrimage Of Fate

My Pilgrimage Of Fate
© Surazeus
2022 02 09

With fervent ennui borne of opaque hope, 
still unexpressed at the time of my death, 
I meditate in Pantheon of my skull 
to understand why death erases truth 
though children never study how to cope 
while they wander chanting in lightless school. 

The grand sparkling River of Joy that flows 
through hills of Heaven is watered by tears 
that bleed from eyes of angels without wings 
which cast enormous shadows from our fears 
long hidden in moon of my heart that glows 
bright as faces of souls by mountain springs. 

The House of Tomorrow on signless road, 
that captures moonlight for ten thousand years, 
waits for my wandering spirit to return 
with secret key for music of the spheres 
programmed by the blind prophet with dream code 
to translate wisdom from sad hearts that yearn. 

Because I choose weird words to be my own, 
expressing honest passion of the stream, 
I chant sad spells that highlight martial deeds 
to whisper ecstasy through fractured dream 
quicker than laughter of the drama zone 
when the mute girl scatters wide apple seeds. 

Though I look back on play of history 
that flows with fluid tides of aching hope 
I cannot see first flash of timeless love 
that spirals backward through atomic rope 
to spool galactic swirl of mystery 
without conceptual mirror in the cave. 

I am the woman lurking in the woods 
who travels lonely on this spinning globe 
to build new home in every river vale 
where refugees may dwell in cosmic lobe, 
safe in haven with multiplying broods 
who found religions based on mental scale. 

Still wandering on my pilgrimage of fate 
ten thousand miles from my lost mountain home, 
I measure sunlight with conceptual word 
that weaves our memories in psychic genome 
reflecting how my soul must navigate 
maze of myths to Theater of the Absurd. 

The woman with burning eyes writes my tale 
in Book of Souls to chronicle my quest 
across the waste land to Garden of Zawth 
where my bride Ishtar wants to build our nest 
in apple grove by Moon Lake of Crow Dale 
as marble temple to preserve our troth. 


Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Bridge Over Troubled Waters

Bridge Over Troubled Waters
© Surazeus
2022 02 08

Stumbling on the bridge over troubled waters, 
lost in the never-changing sunset glow 
through eerie blue mist of the twilight zone, 
I search for faces of my long-lost friends 
behind mirror masks of the nameless ghosts 
who walk forever toward where I am not. 

Clutching old guitar in my red right hand, 
which I stole from statue of the dead god, 
I search through shadows of wind-swirling trees 
for hungry monsters of the howling wind, 
but all I see in mirror of the pool 
is face of the stranger who is not me. 

Bellowing with buzz of passionate brame, 
that motivates my leap across abyss, 
I translate misery of my blinding grame 
with disheveled angst of silent-rain bliss 
in heart-aching melody of false faith 
from puzzling wisdom of messiah sleuth. 

Having drowned my soul in the Seven Seas 
to drink elixir brewed from frothing waves, 
I follow river flow to mountain caves 
where Lucifer forges gold castle keys, 
then sing in misty bog with the holy toad 
who teaches me how to map the world road. 

After stealing pears from the Golden Bough, 
that blossom with faces of chirping ghouls, 
I slalom around statues of dead gods 
in rat race for the American Dream, 
but fall on my face in meadow of skulls 
before the cow that jumps over the moon. 

Carving Draconian laws on Silmaril, 
that shimmers in frail hand of Earendil, 
I lead my people across the Waste Land 
on endless quest to find the Promised Land 
where we build empire on skulls of dead god 
who scams believers in the Justice Squad. 

Measuring mean position to the extreme 
through vibration of the mind pendulum, 
I swell with amplitude of dignity 
through shocking splendor of magnificence, 
by driving juggernaut of false beliefs 
to crush cathedrals of the vampire god. 

Assembling puzzle of my new world view 
from every weird religious myth on Earth, 
I laugh with delight at vision of truth 
that shimmers as all tale films ever dreamed 
which form memory banks of the global brain 
when God wakes conscious in the world wide web. 


Calligraphy Of Blood

Calligraphy Of Blood
© Surazeus
2022 02 08

Encoded through calligraphy of blood, 
my memories explode from conceptual seeds 
to bloom as melons from foul rotting muck, 
and spread bright angel wings of crystal eyes, 
then soar swift as hawk of my hungry heart 
through fertile camouflage of happy faith. 

When hordes of zombies rise from tomb of Christ 
to swarm in gangs invading paradise 
I pull Excalibur from Stone of Scone 
to fight the vampire king in castle tower, 
who beats Rapunzel with hard fist of rage, 
to save her from cold prison of his lust. 

Holding her hand with desperate hope of trust, 
I lead Rapunzel through the howling crowd 
to flee the castle court of golden mirrors, 
escaping tyranny in blasting rain 
through maze of masks to wilderness of wind 
so we can hide in cavern of illusions. 

Safe in mountain haven of our true love, 
Rapunzel weeps in shadow of despair 
as I clean her wounds with tears of sad hope, 
then give her Holy Grail with apple cider, 
so she drinks deep compassion of my heart 
that heals her broken heart with tender words. 

When dawn glitters through leaves of tall trees 
we walk together on the river shore, 
laughing with pleasure of our secret love 
as we rejoice in victory of our courage 
that we endured oppression of the king 
who kidnapped my bride on our wedding day. 

Face glowing with joy in the gold sunlight, 
Rapunzel gazes at me with sweet peace, 
then smiles with aching beauty of desire 
as we eat pears and make love among flowers 
to savor pleasure of togetherness, 
safe from greedy lust of the castle king. 

Sharp arrow pierces me with shock of pain, 
so I fight horde of soldiers with my sword, 
hacking them to death as they stab my soul, 
but as I tremble on my knees in rage 
when the king grabs Rapunzel in his arms 
I lunge forward and stab him in the heart. 

Cradling my wounded body in her arms, 
Rapunzel calls my name with blinding tears, 
begging me to stay by her side forever, 
so I smile and caress her rose-red cheek 
sad that she will be alone in this world, 
then vanish in calligraphy of blood. 


Monday, February 7, 2022

Perceive The Why

Perceive The Why
© Surazeus
2022 02 07

When the ghost wants to haunt the doorless house 
after she plays chess with death on the beach 
I paint new angel mask for her to wear 
so we can talk about philosophy 
that teaches us how to perceive the why 
which can never describe reality. 

Each Sunday we drive to the grocery store 
to purchase the basic necessities 
which support our quest for the Holy Grail 
stolen by the hitchhiker in the snow 
who studies riddles to perceive the why 
which mirrors illusions of the god mind. 

The ghost who was never someone describes 
how Death extracts rainbow soul from the heart 
that coils itself around the shaking globe 
though children in the playground chant sad hymns 
while chasing shadows to perceive the why 
which calculates how brains process weird truth. 

Though rock of salvation crumbles to sand 
at relentless laughter of godless seas 
I walk among white houses of my ghosts 
who read ancient myths in some holy book 
that fails to show how to perceive the why 
which flickers on the television screen. 

When the ghost fails to haunt the lonely house 
that walks through the American frontier 
I kneel in garden of the singing skull, 
where the last prophet finds tablets of tales, 
then translate riddles to perceive the why 
which designs how flowers breathe out the wind. 

So many houses on old signless streets 
entomb mute spirits of the baptized saints 
killed by the crownless virus of despair 
though they had prayed to their god in the clouds 
for new salvation to perceive the why 
which repeats love songs on the radio. 

My mind is not quite right as moonless rain, 
so I walk in the graveyard where mute ghosts 
whisper secrets long ago carved on stones 
which devils use to play fun baseball games 
hoping we forget to perceive the why 
which records our stories on tangled tape. 

When the ghost invites me to paint her face 
concealed by shimmer of eternity 
I hold her hand with confident desire 
we can generate new life with our love 
that inspires my song to perceive the why 
which can always describe reality. 


Asleep Over Paradise Lost

Asleep Over Paradise Lost
© Surazeus
2022 02 07

I fall asleep over Paradise Lost, 
and dream I fall wingless from castle tower, 
then search maze of theaters for the ghost 
of Ophelia who clutches the last flower, 
so I hold her hand by the jeweled gate 
to curse the singing skull of starless fate. 

Bold soldiers of the empire with clean guns 
march singing with white flag of the Red Cross 
while silver airplanes soar past blood-red suns 
in brutal world war over who plays boss, 
but Eve leads me to garden of dead trees 
where blind Orpheus clutches language keys. 

Yet deep in labyrinth of the bleeding book 
I find Achilles and Odysseus 
sitting together by the babbling brook 
with computerized skull of Orpheus 
which calculates global economy 
to calibrate faith through astronomy. 

Alone on mountain of cold sparkling snow 
I climb on rugged knees of Mother Time 
who teaches me how to shoot with the bow, 
though I prefer to play the lyre and rhyme 
conceptual logic of parallel thoughts 
encoded in myths that guide astronauts. 

Phoenician sailor on the purple sea 
docks in Seattle after morning rain, 
then offers sharp Sword of Dido to me 
he stole from granddaughter of Charlemagne, 
because great empires rise from flames of war, 
masked with new names that hide their psychic core. 

Whether I choose Pegasus or Aethon 
as noble mount to ride in grand parade, 
I will play role as son of Apollon 
to marry blind daughter of the Mermaid, 
since Hidden Dragon is king of the world 
who rules unannounced by the cosmic herald. 

The ghost of Pallas in the White House writes 
laws of the jungle on its marble wall 
that support principles of civil rights 
only angels could claim before the Fall, 
so when Lilith finds Adam kissing Eve 
she screams in rage and demands they both leave. 

Though I wake at ringing of the church bell, 
long after God and Lucifer have died, 
I remember life in Heaven and Hell, 
once real cities that have been codified 
as timeless concepts in some ancient myth 
forgotten since fall of the monolith. 


Skating On Hard Ice

Skating On Hard Ice
© Surazeus
2022 02 07

Though you have fallen skating on hard ice, 
Beverly Zhu Yi, with your moon-black eyes, 
you rise again on Phoenix wings of hope 
to soar on light with graceful flight of joy, 
transcending limits of this fragile frame 
through which we reach to touch immortal stars. 


Sunday, February 6, 2022

Sorrow Of The Eyeless Horse

Sorrow Of The Eyeless Horse
© Surazeus
2022 02 06

The sandhill crane with golden wings transcends 
dusky obsession of the parasite 
who wanders lonely on the signless moor 
still searching for love outside of their head, 
but language dribbles from their mouth as blood 
so they become the neon alpine newt. 

Caressing spanish moss on southern oak, 
the cat-faced woman in the marshy swamp 
creeps along edge of the empty highway 
where no cars with blaring radios glide 
on beams of rainbow light to paradise 
where silver heron preserves my lost soul. 

Black alligator gliding in green swamp 
sings ancient hymn to Tiamat as praise 
for Deathless Mother walking on the beach 
who whispers secrets in my hollow heart 
as she gives me ripe mango for my tribe 
who dance around bonfires with scary masks. 

The car mechanic wearing Swamp Thing mask 
carries his bride down steps of the white church 
while guests throw rice in fertility rite 
which sprout into nameless ghosts of lost love 
to haunt their cottage on the gravel road 
where the marsh owl contemplates the moon face. 

The gold-eyed osprey of my aching heart, 
who mocks my vain search for the Holy Grail, 
soars over maze of myths in global city 
to find wingless angel with book of tales 
weeping by fountain of the flying horse 
who decides he will run for president. 

The hidden dragon of the global seer, 
who wears mask of Orpheus as he plays 
jaunty tunes with guitar on crowded streets, 
escapes assassins of the drug-gang king, 
running through the maze of cause and effect 
till he wears crown of the crucified god. 

The singing killdeer of the crowded court, 
where blind-folded Justice with sword of truth 
fights against tyrant of the frightened gang, 
presents new revelation to mankind 
composed by swamp turtle on ruby throne 
that features sorrow of the eyeless horse. 

The Deathless Mother with long tangled hair, 
woven with bones, snake eggs, and cypress roots, 
molds swamp muck into body for my brain 
to radiate conscious spirit of my mind 
so I sing spells with the growling grass frog 
who sits on mushroom blooming from my heart. 


Rivers In My Heart

Rivers In My Heart
© Surazeus
2022 02 06

Because I carry rivers in my heart, 
and weep for every person who has died 
so their new bodies may sprout from the Earth, 
I ebb and flow with the ocean of life 
in harmony with our mothers who name 
our bodies as we flow into this world. 

Because I sing with rivers in my mouth, 
naming every person who ever lived 
as water contained in body of flesh, 
I muse about electric flash of soul 
that spirals in bright neurons of my brain 
as waves that break against the ocean shore. 

Seized by the ancient spirit of this Earth 
that bubbles in fountains from my soft skin, 
I walk along the winding water stream 
that leads me from the mountain to the sea 
so I can measure universe of things 
that glimmer as I hum in evening glow. 

My eyes perceive whole shape of seething things 
that quiver as water in shell of flesh 
when sunlight slants through prism of my soul 
on psychic beams of conscious solitude 
when echoes recoil back from cosmic sign 
conflating fractured shards of dreamless eyes. 

Because I pulse with rivers in my heart, 
while gazing through veil of being to perceive 
conceptual essence of atomic swirls,
I call to castaways on ocean shore 
who rise from shadow of the sunlit sand 
to walk with urgent ebb of hungry hope. 

Through endless cycles of returning tides 
that swirl around my body on hot sand 
my spirit evolves from glistening slime, 
fish to lizard to mouse to cat to ape 
to wingless angel dancing wild in wind, 
bodies flowing through bodies of our mothers. 

Prismatic colors of my flashing brain 
sparkle in eternal darkness of time 
as temporary flame of conscious mind 
that flows through my body in surging stream 
of water falling from Heaven to Earth 
which explodes into apples I consume. 

The Deathless Mother of the ocean mind 
calls my eternal name in gusts of wind 
as bodies evolve from immortal genes 
to nurture conscious sense of my I Am, 
so I sing my hour on stage of desire, 
then vanish back into womb of the world. 


Nothing Of The Night

Nothing Of The Night
© Surazeus
2022 02 06

At silver break of sudden day I hear 
birds singing in apple trees by the lake, 
so I follow call of desire to find 
shadow of lost hope lounging in west grass, 
so we eat walnuts in bright rays of dawn 
and sing about strange nothing of the night. 

Snow fairies whirling in cold azure air 
wake us from afternoon slumber of faith 
so we leap laughing on the sparkling hill 
with joyful rapture of beautiful time 
that weaves our bodies from soft river breeze 
till we descend to nothing of the night. 

With stealthy attitude of honest fear 
we creep together in shadows of trees 
to snatch ripe apples before serpents strike 
then run with gasping breath down to the lake 
where we lounge giggling on the sparkling grass, 
embracing mute in nothing of the night. 

Sometimes I wake from shadow of the sun 
alone in glowing silence of the lake, 
so I call out your name with anguished voice 
of desperate fear till you answer my cry 
with flaming passion of the silver moon 
that shrouds our souls with nothing of the night. 

Your hair disheveled by the wanton wind, 
your eyes bright glowing with tears of the lake, 
you run into my arms from distant shade 
to press our heaving breasts in tight embrace 
so we become wild heartbeats of our love 
that lights our minds through nothing of the night. 

If we must die with turning of the globe 
on which we hunt for fruits and nuts to eat 
we always hold hands tight with fearful hope 
as side by side through solitary way 
we explore lush river vale of our dreams 
with hope to escape nothing of the night. 

We turn our faces to the glowing sky 
where timeless sphere of light in silver clouds 
observes our journey on vast windy plain 
to kneel by crystal rill in open glade 
and drink immortal waters of the world 
that energize our nothing of the night. 

One hundred thousand years of timeless peace 
we journey life by life across the land, 
defeating demons in caverns of rage, 
to generate new children from our souls 
who leave our bones behind to journey on, 
forever seeking nothing of the night. 


Saturday, February 5, 2022

Pale Light Of Winter

Pale Light Of Winter
© Surazeus
2022 02 05

Pale light of winter in my mirror eye 
that guides me through maze of the Otherworld 
on signless road of truth, extracting why 
of wordless wisdom the demon unfurled 
from tangled roots of apple trees, reveals 
how we travel faster through time on wheels. 

Though Theseus never wanders without hope 
between cities crowded with story slaves 
who chase rainbows, still learning how to cope 
with dance of his wife in jeweled sea caves, 
he breaks through barriers to reach his goal, 
to power world empire with prayer, not coal. 

Alone by highway of the time machine, 
between the prairie and the mountain range, 
clutching his broken guitar with grim mien, 
Theseus explores process of psychic change 
in ballads mocking greedy corporate kings 
who commodify stolen angel wings. 

Sitting on lush shore of the gushing stream 
in demon-shadow of the misty vale 
near Mount Takoma, I design weird scheme 
for social heroes in grand cosmic scale 
of noble deeds, recorded by the bard 
who nurtures revolt against the old guard. 

Fighting tyranny of the Minotaur, 
who runs factories and banks in every town, 
Theseus writes magic spells in the grimoire 
he evokes to forge the new goddess crown 
worn by First Mother of the crystal lake, 
then records prophecies of the blind snake. 

Hoping to evade curse of Oedipus, 
by searching for Star Witch in her Dream Cave, 
Theseus names his first son Americus 
so he can translate song of her brain wave 
that flashes through wires between telephones, 
based on black flag with the skull and crossbones. 

Potent ardency of the eyeless girl 
who plants apple seeds in Garden of Death 
with gentle hands, despite the fractured pearl 
of stark infinity, propagates breath 
through conscious passion for blooming of fruits 
which emanates demons from tangled roots. 

Perceptive jesting of the cavern troll, 
who dares defy harsh tyranny of God, 
inspires Theseus to perform the role 
Melpomene wrote to expose his fraud, 
though he wanders lost in vast maze of myth 
to learn poetic art of the Dream Smith. 


While Angels Howl

While Angels Howl
© Surazeus
2022 02 05

Aloft on fragile wings of schadenfreude 
I query angels of the pious clouds 
for how to play seditious games of truth 
which measure infrangible words of light 
based on obsequious love for prestige 
despite my gasconade on the world stage. 

Steadfast on treeless hill of arrogance 
I meditate with guidance of brute wind 
through moral pulchritude of honest hope 
while tyrants in the castle gormandize 
conceptual visions bleeding from our eyes 
still inimical to the fustian seer. 

Shielded by process of the rigmarole 
I battle blind angels with flaming swords 
who abjure loyalty to the mad king 
commensurate with shocked experience 
earned by draconian laws of amity 
restored by treaty with the jovial god. 

Feigned wisdom of the regnant patriot 
I dare present with moxie of the fool 
contaminates cool fountain of the queen 
who lounges by the pool of skeletons 
to read gossip in the morning gazette 
while angels howl in hurricanes of love. 

Awake with divine consciousness of fear 
I navigate valley of death at noon 
to map safe way around slough of despond 
where children of lost angels chase rainbows 
till they stop by the never-open door 
to prove they are trapped in the maze of myths. 

Annoyed by riddles of the portolan 
I wander weeping on beach of wrecked ships 
to find thalassic angel without arms 
who clutches treasure map of paradise 
stained red by tears of sorrow I conceal 
as crippled child of the funambulist. 

Inspired by graceful beauty of Ceres 
I stab moist Earth with razor angel wings 
through fractured mirror of cerulean eyes 
to analyze effects of primal cause 
revealed through art of cereology 
which prophesies reign of the chanticleer. 

Masked blank by ever-changing face of fate 
I play celestial role of wingless angel 
fallen by the tower where Rapunzel sings 
with logomachy of the merry fae 
still aching to return to Avalon 
after my gasconade on the world stage. 


Friday, February 4, 2022

Arrogant Pride Of Nature

Arrogant Pride Of Nature
© Surazeus
2022 02 04

Strange beauty of rolling thunder displays 
arrogant pride of nature, from fraught faith 
compelled by hunger to haunt lonely souls 
by murderous lakes, reluctant to know 
why trees weep in shadow of hope, yet we 
still seek each other on the signless road. 

Soft passion of lovers, who almost kiss 
beside still waters in meadow of skulls, 
animates our bodies with eager hope 
to evade death, even when cheerful gloom, 
exposed by moonlight, escapes dreadful flight 
of eyeless owls across the stark red sky. 

Strict anguish of mothers, whose children die 
at breathless whisper of trees, far beyond 
crumbling walls of faith, strikes heart of dark truth 
sinking in bottomless lake, though mute seeds 
sprout roots that devour foundations of love 
too deep underground for the moon to know. 

Pale for weariness of climbing nowhere, 
too blind to gaze at suffering of lost souls 
on naked Earth, cold moon with joyless eye 
finds constant faith entombed in my dark heart 
birthing stars from fear, yet still I believe 
time will fragment my body into dreams. 

Fiery flight of immortal stars, who sing 
of horror cramped in caverns of blind souls, 
blazes new way of passionate desire 
through deepest nothing of dishonored faith, 
yet we are wanderers with empty hands 
who seek safe nest of hope in hostile waste. 

Outgrown sorrow we once consigned to light 
of crumbling mountains, never more contained 
by snapping laws of nature, emanates 
tombless shadows from timeless radiance 
to fracture azure skies where statues weep 
over truth transfused in veins of foul blood. 

Frail bones of naked desolation prop 
temples of dead gods on undulant slopes 
where laughing flowers consume shriveled brains 
of wingless angels lost in paradise, 
yet with dull time I slouch on treeless mound 
to replay memory of the running horse. 

Imperfect future of this brighter sphere, 
that spins in murky depths of sunlit lake, 
expands beyond conceptual bounds that I 
measure with words, unspoken still at death 
of weeping wind, though existential threat 
trembles with every wild beat of my heart. 


Mothers In Caucasian Vales

Mothers In Caucasian Vales
© Surazeus
2022 02 04

Straight through glowing light of eternal day 
the wingless angel falls from mindless fear 
into startled consciousness of the way 
leading her to blue lake that glitters clear, 
so she kneels and cups her hesitant hands 
then drinks cold spirit of the timeless lands. 

This primal memory of ancestral soul 
that sparkles still in neurons of my brain 
guides how I perform my conceptual role 
gathering fruit of the Earth to sustain 
immortal soul of genes through corporal tales 
designed by mothers in Caucasian vales. 

Five thousand generations of my mind 
as mothers teaching daughters how to sing, 
based on characters their actions defined, 
now animate bold progress of my wing, 
awake in current body of my soul 
when I explore Earth on my morning stroll. 

Immortal spirit of First Mother glows 
as conscious vision of my current state, 
so clear memory of all my mothers flows 
through moral values that define my fate 
since I choose by free will how to perform 
creative gestures that conflate the norm. 

Awake in sunlit grove of apple trees, 
I linger entranced by the flashing course 
of mountain stream that blows refreshing breeze 
through my hair as I watch the graceful horse 
graze in meadow where gold butterflies float 
in swirls around the oak-wood, wave-rocked boat. 

For forty thousand years my mothers roam 
from Scythia to Scotland to Oregon, 
forever westward from our mist-veiled home, 
but I cannot return to Avalon 
that vanished from this world centuries ago 
so I hang out tonight with the moon crow. 

The ancient desire to explore the world 
animates my restless quest beyond here, 
so I wake in this life as the mute herald 
who records flow of life on this dream sphere 
to translate visions from ethereal breath 
before I fall into abyss of death. 

No matter where I have lived on this Earth, 
in every fertile vale where rivers sing, 
I cherish every home beyond its worth 
symbolized by gem in my wedding ring 
that binds our hearts in sacred rites of love 
since we walk hand in hand from the sea cave. 


Thursday, February 3, 2022

Lost Valley Of Avalon

Lost Valley Of Avalon
© Surazeus
2022 02 03

Falling forever back into myself, 
though I try to run away from my hope, 
I redesign paradigm of my fate 
with puzzle pieces discarded by fear 
to become the me I try not to be 
even as I grow beyond who I was. 

Hiding books on the glass library shelf 
that reveal principles of each tale trope, 
I rearrange the world I navigate 
with mask discarded by the puppeteer 
who pretends not to steal my tower key 
while I investigate the primal cause. 

Skating on thin ice of my ancient soul 
with elegant clumsiness of false grace, 
I search for woman whose face mirrors mine 
with features that reflect my opposite 
so we complement the stranger we love 
who lives on the other side of the world. 

Composing speeches to perform my role 
in timeless Theater of the God Face, 
I reveal new road to Heaven with sign 
encoded through riddles in Holy Writ 
based on visions I dream in the sea cave 
where Ishtar shows me how to play her herald. 

Leaping bottomless abyss of my heart 
deep in labyrinth of our forgotten myths, 
I manage Garden of Hesperides 
so I can give ripe fruit from tree of life 
to refugees who escape slavery 
enforced by devil on the pyramid. 

Tracing cause and effect on the star chart 
that maps tangled fate of our separate paths, 
I listen to lecture of Socrates 
who praises practical ways of his wife 
while he drinks from the grail with bravery 
to consult oracle of the Dream Grid. 

Returning home from theme park Wonderland 
with sacred scriptures I write with my blood, 
I weep in empty cathedral of ghosts 
to see face of my spouse I fear to lose, 
but she stands frozen in idol of stone, 
worshipped as blind goddess of Babylon. 

Standing outside gate to the Promised Land 
with broken lyre Mercury dropped in mud, 
I translate prophesies of analysts 
to hide identity of my song Muse 
who wanders weeping in the twilight zone 
far beyond lost valley of Avalon. 


Last Day Of The World

Last Day Of The World
© Surazeus
2022 02 03

I have gotten used to the feeling that 
every day is the last day of the world 
when I stand on the front lawn of this house 
where I have lived the last couple of years 
and stare at gray skies over wet hilltowns 
where nameless strangers go about their lives. 

Though millions of people die every year, 
from disasters, plagues, overwork, and wars, 
millions more are born from eager desire 
our bodies express to generate life 
in seething tides of incarnating genes 
as froth born from waves of our mother sea. 

The Deathless Mother of the fertile sea 
generates our bodies from chemicals 
sparked by beams of light from the spider sun 
whose billion eyes in neurons of my brain 
dream evolution of our universe 
when atoms transform into me I am. 

This temporary spirit that I am 
wakes in flashing consciousness of Now Here 
as self-aware soul through eternity 
that names itself before it fades away, 
so nowhere in infinity of space 
I become God before I disappear. 

Before I disappear in Mind of God 
as brief example of conceptual thought 
I breathe ethereal spirit of the rain, 
then sing heart-aching melody of love 
expressing joy that I am still alive 
since I can never sing after I die. 

From perspective of the vast universe 
this person I am on lawn in small town, 
who sings in silence of the rain-gray day, 
is nothing more than fragile flame of life 
on one small globe in countless galaxies 
that spiral from first flash of the big bang. 

I feel the White Whole of the universe 
glowing bright inside my minuscule brain 
so though I savor pleasure of this life, 
aching with sorrow as I sing with joy, 
I treasure every hour of conscious dream 
before I vanish into nothingness. 

Awake again on last day of the world, 
as Earth keeps spinning in the boundless void, 
I write words of my song in magic spell 
that preserves in Book of Lost Memories 
temporary awareness of my brain, 
then fall silent through all eternity. 


In The House Of Hope

In The House Of Hope
© Surazeus
2022 02 03

The woman collapsed in the house of hope, 
who wears old jeans under her flowery dress, 
conceals her sorrow in the eglantine 
that blooms from the bleeding wound in her heart, 
then rises to the sky with dignity 
to keep cooking in the church of dead gods. 

The wind that blows around her small white house 
softly creaking by river on the plain 
whispers secrets she does not want to hear 
in harmony with boiling of beef stew, 
so she stares blankly at the willow tree 
who whirls her thin arms in anxiety. 

The door that slams when she steps from the house 
waits for her to return to its sad warmth 
while she stands in wet grass on river shore 
to watch how water flows relentlessly 
in spiraling whorls through eternity 
so long she feels her name vanish in wind. 

Though she hears nothing but wind in the grass 
the woman by the river on the plain 
sees armies of men with guns, tanks, and planes 
in her motherland far across the sea 
kill each other in explosive world war 
over whose god is the right one to serve. 

While slicing apples to bake in the pie, 
sharp blade of the knife gleaming in sunlight, 
the woman in the house of moaning wind 
sees face of the nameless soldier in snow 
who lies on his back under empty skies 
while red blood gushes from his mouth and eyes. 

The ghost of the warrior with gleaming sword 
who rides black horse in cold arrogant wind 
flashes past kitchen window on the lawn, 
so she steps outside in hair-swirling wind 
and aims cutting knife at void of his eyes, 
but he calls her name as he disappears. 

Through swirling shadow of the warrior ghost 
the mailman drives up to her picket gate 
and hands her letter from the government 
which announces that her husband is dead, 
killed in the Forest of Broceliande, 
still clutching the Holy Grail to his breast. 

The woman wandering in the house of hope 
folds letter of death by his photograph, 
eats supper of beef stew and apple pie, 
then plays piano as stark evening light 
erases landscape of the changeless world 
while his child blossoms awake in her womb. 


Wednesday, February 2, 2022

Miracle Of Sudden Grace

Miracle Of Sudden Grace
© Surazeus
2022 02 02

Slouching by the window in the armchair 
to watch drops of rain sparkle on dark glass, 
he waits for miracle of sudden grace 
that never happens in the evening trance, 
yet floats through sudden-strange eternity 
at sensuous flapping of black raven wings. 

Bright eye of enchanting ecstasy glows 
open wide as nullity of the void 
that pulses deep in thudding drum of thought 
so long that he becomes expansive sight 
of boundless essence flowing from deep well 
through his bottomless heart to become why. 

Objective nothing of the valid gush, 
that spirals up as shiver in his spine, 
completes weird absence of value with pride 
through flawed deficiency he must accept 
beyond undoing of his conceptual soul 
at sharp reversal of flushed vacancy. 

Yet still he feels expanding flush of fear 
more bold than silent wings of eager flight 
when he falls backward from the swirling cloud 
substantial as wordless vibe he defines 
based on strict emptiness of power he wields 
while gazing at his face in rain-wet glass. 

Fervent devotion of the hostile flame 
explodes with soundless gleam in fractured glass 
when she drives their car into the driveway 
that strikes beams of headlights into his heart 
which interrupts fervor of vehemence 
concealed by sentiment of falling rain. 

The nameless face of every human soul 
ever confined by fear against their will 
glows before his eyes in dark window glass 
till he feels anguish of their suffering 
course through his body as electric blood 
since he never dances like the wild goat. 

So he sips coffee in the porcelain cup, 
acutely aware of the soft lamp glow 
that casts his shadow across the whole world 
while he studies paintings in the art book 
that depict the mother holding her child 
who becomes the tyrant wearing his crown. 

Standing up as his wife opens the door, 
he sighs that no miracle will occur, 
but when he turns to welcome her back home 
he remembers she died ten years ago, 
gassed to death in the concentration camp, 
so he smears blood on the dark window glass. 


Image Of The Twin

Image Of The Twin
© Surazeus
2022 02 02

Two of everything that exists on Earth 
reflect conceptual image of the twin 
that twirls round in tumbling turbidity 
with torpid truculence of aching love 
so I see my soul radiant in your face 
when we kiss to transform one spiral mind. 

The sparkling river that forever runs, 
winding through lush garden of apple trees, 
guides my journey beyond the Promised Land 
to find out where the glowing sun is born 
through which I discover the Earth is round 
as the emerald that glitters in my hand. 

Timeless antiquity of her bright soul 
generates Tellurian spirit of love 
through each phase of evolution we bloom 
from luminary reflection of self 
with constant flowing of rebirth to death 
based on her omens of tempestual calm. 

Awake beyond performance of the myth, 
which allocates special factors of truth, 
I walk bleak desert road to Neverland 
with last apple of the world in my hand 
so I can plant by the river of skulls 
new Garden of Eden with sprawling schools. 

Each time vast city we build from one hut 
enslaves its population in routine, 
that sustains the company over people, 
we follow prophet of the desert well 
outside safe imprisoning walls of Heaven 
to found new colony on stolen land. 

Strange ache of sorrow sinking in my heart 
might never motivate ambitious plan 
to redesign state of society 
so every person honors equal rights 
since silver angels in the godless sky 
drop bombs on cathedrals of ancient lies. 

Yet still eyeless ghost of the weeping clown 
wanders windy halls of dark Duino Castle 
to play chess with Death above the wild sea 
while children of Icarus build new towns 
along the languid Mississippi River 
where Hermes plays banjo around the fire. 

Two lovers embrace in soft moonlight glow 
to replicate immortal souls of genes 
in children springing from dreams of our brains 
who dance with angels on the global stage 
till she falls nine days and nights to the sea 
in vain fight against nature to fly free. 


Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Ghost Of The Sun

Ghost Of The Sun
© Surazeus
2022 02 01

When I forget I am not yet alive 
I stand in doorway to nowhere and cry. 
I talk to the fountain about the cave 
where wingless angels gather to ask why. 
I walk narrow alley to the beyond 
as children play after death in the pond. 

Because our planet is ghost of the sun 
we rearrange puzzles of truth in myths. 
I vanish at flash of the magic gun 
that crowns my shadow king of monoliths. 
The rain that falls on my face does not care 
whether I live or die in the star flare. 

When I remember to wear my blank face 
I run in meadow with horses and laugh. 
Stabilized process of the memory trace 
preserves your spirit in my psychograph. 
Though we sit together we never talk, 
yet translate sad song of the timeless clock. 

Uncanny words rain on the lonely hill 
to wash away footsteps of my lost faith. 
The apple on the dusty windowsill 
spreads raven wings to fly as eyeless wraith. 
Light glitters in empty void of my heart 
awake as atom measured by the chart. 

Alone I hear the lightning flash of time 
that spirals from stone in the flowing stream. 
Though no one loves me except the mute mime 
I love every soul on the human team. 
Atoms of every world flow from one source 
to calculate vibrant spell of the Force. 

Vague face of sorrow in the careless mist 
observes my weeping on the signless road. 
Inspired by passion of the hedonist, 
I float on mushroom as the buddha toad. 
Whole history of the Earth glows in my brain 
through crystal star eyes of the singing rain. 

Meditating on yellow rose of love, 
the white butterfly channels soul of God. 
Reaching my hands to empty sky above, 
I pray for chance to join the Justice Squad. 
Undone by horror of the faceless mind, 
I catalog every daemon I find. 

When I remember I am not yet dead 
I conceal my soul in words of the book. 
Alone on mountain of honey-soaked bread, 
I weep in tomb of the immortal cook. 
Escaping idol of the self I was, 
I calculate flow of the primal cause. 


Who I Have Become Today

Who I Have Become Today
© Surazeus
2022 02 01

If I could evade death another day 
to walk in shadow of your light, I will 
decide how far down signless road of hope 
I can leap through strange swirls of rain to find 
hidden cave where you are the reborn soul 
who knows my secret name, so I love you. 

I write new letter to you every day 
to express vision of life we could live 
together by the apple tree of love, 
yet before I can mail them to your heart 
they turn into ravens and fly away, 
taking my love for you into the sky. 

Each time I walk through grove of apple trees 
to visit your home by the sparkling lake 
I pause in shadow of desire, alone 
with aching sorrow of wind, mute as snow 
that translates sunlight into fear of death, 
then run away before our play begins. 

Every day I wake from dream of the flower 
I feel like someone else I could not be 
so I steal my name from grave of the dead 
to play their role in theater of faith 
till I vanish in shadow of myself 
and become someone else after I die. 

I am never the same person I was 
the day before I wake in awe of time 
because the sun keeps spinning in the sky, 
so I sit by the sparkling lake of dreams 
and wonder who I have become today, 
then live their life as if I cannot die. 

Yet when I pause in door of some strange house 
to look at the face I must wear today, 
who smiles at me from mirror of desire, 
I see the stranger I must name, then face 
strangers who walk past me in crowded streets, 
so I become each person I perceive. 

I am so many other people I 
forget the original self I am 
which emanates from faceless stone of truth 
on which I carve the first name of my soul 
I gave myself ten thousand years ago 
since I keep waking up as someone else. 

Though I evade death with every rebirth 
as stranger who evolves from my first self 
I speak the ancient name of wind and rain 
to redefine that self I want to play, 
then laugh when I realize I am still me, 
for I will love you, whoever you are. 


Still Waters Of Lost Faith

Still Waters Of Lost Faith
© Surazeus
2022 02 01

The situation cannot be ignored 
in which the wingless angel forgets why 
our deathless mother invents secret name 
that guides our journey in waste land of hope 
to sit beside still waters of lost faith 
and feast at table heaped with rotten fruit. 

Without the broken tablet of fake words 
that crumbles like stale bread in trembling hands 
the wingless angel cannot find true way 
that leads through labyrinth of the howling queen 
to weep beside still waters of lost faith 
and talk to mute god in the empty sky. 

The deathless mother on the pyramid 
who watches lightning strikes define the truth 
weeps with anguish as she wanders alone 
in maze of market streets with moaning wind 
to groan beside still waters of lost faith 
and name the corpses rotting in dry dust. 

The wingless angel with one tear-wet eye 
climbs shining pyramid of divine truth 
to find goddess of immortality 
but stands in temple of the faceless god 
to laugh beside still waters of lost faith 
as only person to survive the plague. 

I wake from dream of ancient Babylon 
with aching heart to climb the pyramid 
where Ishtar sings creation of the world, 
amazed my soul is still alive on Earth 
to sing beside still waters of lost faith 
through countless generations of rebirth. 

Though we build systems of commercial work 
producing food for everyone to eat, 
natural disasters of storms, plagues, and wars 
obliterate our empires from the Earth, 
to wait beside still waters of lost faith 
till we flourish again with loving hope. 

Though plagues and storms destroy gardens of fruit 
I shepherd homeless refugees of war 
who build new gardens where children play free 
till new empires rise from ruins of death 
to thrive beside still waters of lost faith 
till indifferent nature grinds us to dust. 

I wake in dream of revived Avalon 
with aching heart to climb the castle tower 
and watch people in crowded market place 
sell beautiful things they make with their hands, 
to dance beside still waters of lost faith 
while Earth keeps spinning in the void of death.