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Monday, March 31, 2025

Fragments Of Frail Faith

Fragments Of Frail Faith
© Surazeus
2025 03 31

When the storm of electric innocence 
blows over our home in dense Raven Wood 
I hear laughter of Ungod in blue sky 
howl with cruel mockery at human pride, 
so I glare mute at Jupiter or Zeus, 
and grin that my fathers gave storms weird names. 

I peer in shadows of gold afternoon 
to see the faceless ghosts of souls long dead 
that glow with wisdom of experience, 
so I try to decode their wordless pain 
to understand grim sorrow of their loss 
which people still suffer in every age. 

Broken tree limbs of twisted memories 
crash into the yards of hope-haunted homes 
that chill our hearts with specter of decay 
as despair coagulates in crippled form 
that crawls across debris of our world view, 
tangled in rotten beauty of our faith. 

Emerging from shattered shelter of trust, 
we gather fractured fragments of frail faith 
decontextualized from established framework 
as long-accepted information memes 
disconnected from firm matrix of truth 
that exposes its artificial structure. 


Dolphin Of My Heart

Dolphin Of My Heart
© Surazeus
2025 03 31

Between Arion and Jonah I would be 
the prophet whose enchanting song of truth 
inspires wave-leaping spirits of the sea 
to bear me safely to the shore with ruth 
because the light of greatness does not fade 
though our bodies dissolve into the shade. 

When I am cast on brutal shore of fate, 
where nightingales have far too long been mute, 
old Delphic spirit begging at the gate 
still sings heart-wrenching ballads less than cute, 
reviving my Muse from grave of my heart 
so I sing new tales not on her old chart. 

The nightingale, once singing in the night, 
regales war refugees on signless roads, 
while the mockingbird, disdaining clear light, 
teaches all who cannot sing, birds and toads, 
how to imitate their own secret voice 
so they feel they are free to make the choice. 

If I extract wild spirit from my head, 
I could fly high on quick angelic wings 
to purview our world with eye of calm dread 
employed by the free bird who always sings 
visions of truth that reveal the real world 
through ontology of the cosmic herald. 

Though all-silencing Death attempts to quell 
cry of the heart for justice, strict yet fair, 
adjudicating crimes punished by Hell, 
we will rise bold to sing courageous prayer 
for every soul alive on this great land 
to live through freedom of the Giving Hand. 

Whether I am swallowed by the white whale, 
and then commissioned by voice of the sky 
to proclaim retribution of the Scale, 
or borne by the dolphin as Music spy, 
I shall in either case record the truth 
with honest spirit of messiah sleuth. 

Perched on Arionian dolphin of my heart, 
I strum the lyre of Mercury with faith 
that, if I follow guidance of her chart, 
Athena will help me transform the wraith 
of social anguish from demon to god 
as loyal member of her justice squad. 

Though I now float lost on wild ocean tide, 
which fierce Poseidon hurls at shore of hope, 
the star-eyed Muse, always my loving guide, 
sends dolphin of my heart to help me cope, 
so with bold courage of her humble sage 
I sing for justice on the global stage. 


Sunday, March 30, 2025

House Of Every Ghost

House Of Every Ghost
© Surazeus
2025 03 30

When swirling snowflakes freeze into the house 
where every human in the world has lived, 
I approach wavering illusion of hope 
to observe drama of their lives play out 
in ghostly shadows of wordless desire, 
but cannot open the doors of their graves. 

Easy laughter rattles windows of time 
with unearned urgency of unkempt class 
that scatters puzzle pieces on wood floors 
to clutter stage of graceful tragedy 
since cracks that let the light of hope get in 
cannot conceal meaninglessness of life. 

Writing names of ghosts on new-blooming leaves, 
I whisper secret cipher that conceals 
stories of their lives in weird archetypes 
so Death can never find them in the room 
where they arrange photos of memories 
in graphic novels that sprout raven wings. 

Though I walk the signless road of everywhere 
ten thousand years from sea to shining sea, 
I never see another ghost like me 
with eyes that depict islands in the sea 
where every ancestor who wove my genes 
walks forever on beach of singing waves. 

I ponder how with branches of fruit trees 
I might encrypt conceptual memories 
in cosmic archetypes of normal things 
through sacred letters of the alphabet 
that writhe across snow with serpentine grace 
reserved for scientific formulas. 

Footprints of ghosts in ever-falling snow 
lead me to giant hall of steel and glass, 
far grander than Valhalla of my heart, 
where twenty thousand hungry troubadours 
sell each other books of their prophecies 
that hint at sorrow of domestic scenes. 

Assembled in hall of fairy-tale books 
that record enchanting tales of romance, 
ghosts of prophets, singers, and troubadours 
tag themselves with badge of diversity 
based on inclusion that binds random souls 
through staged dramas of social equity. 

True history that records human events 
transforms into mythical fairy tales 
etched in blue ice on windows of the house 
where ghosts of all the souls who ever live 
gather to read each other poetry 
that swirl as snowflakes through eternity. 

Surrender To Absurdity

Surrender To Absurdity
© Surazeus
2025 03 30

While driving my car on the Nowhere Road, 
I feel dull ache of ennui in my heart, 
and then I know with ironic detachment 
I should have made peace with absurdity 
of human existence on this vast world 
before I began my trip to Wonderland. 

Parking my old car in the empty lot, 
I wander on shore of the frozen lake 
to contemplate fragile impermanence 
which characterizes beauty of Nature, 
till feeling of annoyance numbs my heart, 
so I grin with satisfaction at Death. 

Yet yellow butterfly with fragile wings 
flutters with delicate calm of respect 
among white petals on the long black bough, 
which makes me think about how energy 
springs to life again after hiemal death, 
blooming with beauty of peaceful hope. 

I savor oppressive cold of gray skies 
on fields frozen hard in bitter despair 
so long I come to find in misery 
grim comfort at harsh ugliness of death 
till I see beauty in rancid decay 
and treasure horror of the lifeless tree. 

Alone in stillness of the leafless woods 
where grayness saturates the mindless soil, 
I feel the sudden flash of evening light 
when the sun advancing across stern hills 
pierces my eyes with sheen of desire 
as trees explode in quiet poof of green. 

The golden path of silence glows awake 
in winding casualness of sly amusement 
among the mulberry bushes of fate, 
so I surrender to absurdity 
that beauty gleams within the rugged world 
with urgent innocence of honest fear. 

My hungry eyes consume beauty of Earth 
with aching ennui that something more 
beyond blank nothingness of death may lure 
my heart to believe our souls might live on, 
but sweet beauty of this horrible lie 
would trap me in despair at suffering. 

My conscious sense of self is radiant glow 
conjured by chemical functions of hope 
from flashing neurons of my dreaming brain, 
so I savor ennui of this vibrant hour 
because I know my animating soul 
will vanish from this strange world when I die. 


Sadness Is The Last Pear

Sadness Is The Last Pear
© Surazeus
2025 03 30

Because I break into blossom each time 
I step out of my body without my mind, 
I breathe the happiness of lonely wind, 
embarrassed when my brain begins to chime 
with passion of ambiguous respect 
for how our vehement bodies connect. 

Though sadness is the last pear on the tree 
where horses eat grass that grows from my grave, 
I carve my happiness in the dark cave 
where bats are the demons who can fly free 
to dry meadow where Gordius ties the knot 
since angels crown him King of Camelot. 

If anyone thinks art can cure disease 
they have not felt the piercing angst of faith 
branded in our hearts by eyes of the wraith, 
nor shivered when the chilly forest breeze 
blows tattered fog among laurels at dawn 
when the exiled king has to play the pawn. 

To learn survival in the wilderness, 
after great civilizations collapse 
at shocking strike of the apocalypse, 
I seek to overcome safe happiness 
with boisterous song of bitter irony 
based on my latest soul epiphany. 

Warm sunlight threads words in frame of my soul 
as I imagine how to save the world 
if I agree to play the cosmic herald, 
but meditate without reaching for my goal 
through unpredictable flight of the heart 
down secret trails not mapped on any chart. 

Untriggered anger of the wordless play 
inspires my long-reluctant heart to try 
for random chance at well-earned victory 
sailing swiftly across the wind-flashed bay 
against blank facades of ambivalence 
which cannot guarantee calm nonchalance. 

Attention to strict rules of dialogue 
maintains clear focus on bold self-defense 
against attack by minions of pretense 
at fateful commission to catalog 
destructive actions of traitors and thieves 
because my mother is the one who grieves. 

Annihilated light of unseen truth 
adjusts trajectory of our national curve 
where good leader we choose is tasked to serve 
needs of the people by messiah sleuth 
who washes clean our nation of despair 
because his hate teaches us how to care. 


Saturday, March 29, 2025

Stolen Mask Of Jupiter

Stolen Mask Of Jupiter
© Surazeus
2025 03 29

Untethered twirl of emotional glide 
accelerates my soul beyond fake bounds 
of social convention that holds me down, 
because I spring high from book where I hide 
secret fears with glass skeletons in mounds 
on which the lost worship the haughty clown. 

Unchained ocean waves of obvious truths 
we dare not speak as taboo of the heart 
wipe vast metropolis of gleaming towers 
off face of the Earth with soul-cleansing baths 
since commercial empire is based on cart 
from which the lonely girl sells pretty flowers. 

Untricked by preacher of the fallen god 
to believe that each person is unique, 
we search for ancient sword Excalibur 
as magic weapon buried in the sod 
so we can fight the conman and his clique 
who wears the stolen mask of Jupiter. 

Uncivilized by tyranny of cash 
that drives fierce engine of global commerce, 
we fight new civil war of thought control 
to wear crown of thorns retrieved from the trash 
based on description of the universe 
designed by savior hung on the phone pole. 

Uncaged by law of Goddess Liberty 
with commission to bear the Torch of Truth, 
Minerva runs barefoot in the waste land 
to escape agents of security 
while pregnant with our new messiah sleuth 
destined to rule Earth with his red right hand. 

Unpuzzled petroglyph on Stone of Scone 
depicts First Mother of the Human Race 
when she emerges from the Lake of Dreams 
and plays haunting tunes on flute of bird bone 
then wears golden mask over pock-marked face 
when she performs in Theater of Seems. 

Uncrowned as honest Emperor of Earth, 
I ride White Horse of Justice down the street 
through parade to celebrate victory, 
then analyze what everything is worth 
which I list on the clay-tablet spreadsheet 
as world-traveling man of mystery. 

Unlocking stolen mask of Jupiter, 
I climb huge pyramid of the God-Eye 
so I can understand the human heart 
which follows path devised by Lucifer 
because we choose our fate by asking why 
we must blindly conform to our star chart. 


Both Man And Monster

Both Man And Monster
© Surazeus
2025 03 29

If I misunderstand how the red snow falls 
the gold-eyed cat who lounges on my porch 
could explain secret of romantic faith 
in failure of books to describe the truth 
about the nature of ancestral dreams 
encoded in tribal myths I invent. 

The frog that climbs up window of my heart 
tries to hide eerie glow of the weird moon, 
but I see its shadows in every room, 
even during the day when angry birds 
declare their sovereignty in tangled trees 
with beautiful songs that make my heart ache. 

Before sunset I wander into town 
and sit in the back of the smoky bar 
to eat fish and chips and stare at the lake 
while people stand before the microphone 
and read their secret-coded poetry 
to supportive cheers of their fellow poets. 

Crouching on moon-gold beach of the large lake, 
I write lines of verse in the gleaming sand 
about the United States of Ionia 
through which cabal of poets in black robes 
rule the world with slick advertising slogans, 
till the turtle nibbles at my right hand. 

The bittersweet sorrow of our strange world 
cries out in mindless song of windy rain 
that cannot be translated into words 
so I become the silence of my voice 
that folds my fears into pages of books 
which transform into spirit-haunted trees. 

I dismiss with tragic wave of my hand 
every opinion that clutters my mind 
in vain attempt to sweep them all away 
and clear blinding illusions of despair, 
but spiderweb of truth ensnares my hand 
with sticky nonchalance of sly disgust. 

I refuse to be absolute for death 
except as fateful end that traps us all, 
for I resist the nothingness of fate 
with cautious assertion of faint desire 
to keep on living without trying hard, 
savoring sensations of pleasurable pain. 

Both Beowulf and Grendel are described 
by the Unknown Poet with raven quill 
with similar terms as both man and monster, 
the same as Gilgamesh and Enkidu, 
demonic spirit in civilized man, 
twins contesting to understand red snow. 


Friday, March 28, 2025

Next World War

Next World War
© Surazeus
2025 03 28

We may survive the next world war, or not, 
with cheerful laughter of the Argonaut 
who cancels quest to steal the Golden Fleece 
in vain attempt to establish world peace 
by claiming every land on Earth is his 
because he always wins the puzzling quiz. 

He wants to build new home in vale of tears 
to manage school of crazy puppeteers 
by teaching them to scam the populace 
with threat from rolling stone of Sisyphus, 
but he gets lost in forest of the clown 
where Gretel marries him with mindcuff crown. 

Still staring in the mirror of his soul 
for twenty years without his secret goal, 
he wonders who defines the right from wrong 
besides the Valkyrie with tragic song 
who outshines everyone on the world stage 
though she got trapped by fame in her gold cage. 

Elected captain to steer Ship of State, 
after Midas wrecks it with bitter hate, 
the Argonaut who hides his secret name 
writes new constitution for the world game 
so everyone who plays life by the rules 
can create beauty with conceptual tools. 

Since we hope to survive the next world war 
with shadow of our faith in global lore, 
though traitorous thieves destroy our world view, 
we work together when the ingenue 
performs her role as savior of the world 
as prophesied by the mad cosmic herald. 

As incarnation of brave Liberty, 
who wields Book and Lamp of democracy, 
Minerva rides the white horse of our hope 
with grand ontology beyond our scope 
to build from ruins of America 
nation of justice called Zarathia. 

Displaced from homes we lived in many years, 
and fired unfairly from fruitful careers, 
we follow Moses through the wilderness 
across the rusty bridge of aimlessness 
to surround castle where the tyrant hides 
with treasures he stole from our psychic guides. 

Though Midas steals everything we hold dear, 
attempting to divide us with fake fear, 
we smash his idol with its feet of clay 
when Sisyphus arrives with spells to pray, 
so we will survive world war of his greed 
and regrow Tree of Life with honest seed. 


Life As Hungry Savages

Life As Hungry Savages
© Surazeus
2025 03 28

Dozing on the back porch in the warm sun, 
I contemplate red history of the gun 
that toppled empires of the sword and horse 
and fueled mankind on faster-engined course, 
so now we race to control every isle 
while attending state feasts with graceful style. 

The fallen airplane floats on ocean waves 
just offshore from the secret cliffside caves 
where our ancestors first drew images 
to transcend life as hungry savages, 
so Icarus spreads his wings without faith 
and soars among clouds with the mindless wraith. 

His mother calls him from the tower porch, 
then wanders in the night with flaming torch 
to find where he has fallen from the sky 
so she can ask the bitter devil why 
he dares rebel against the tyrant king 
who shoots any angel who tries to sing. 

Kneeling in dust before the pyramid 
where Jupiter keeps stolen treasure hid, 
Lucifer packs powder in metal pipe 
then aims rifle to kill God Archetype 
who decrees he owns both body and soul 
of every human he assigns state role. 

Roused from my slumber in the warm noon sun, 
I grumble at slaughter caused by the gun 
the past five hundred years of holy wars 
that gangs of men fight to control food stores 
as we transform castles into glass banks 
and horses mutate into brutal tanks. 

Glancing upward at glowing clouds of fate, 
I search blank space for ministers of hate 
who rampage now through halls of government 
to pilfer treasures of entitlement 
that shatters sense of safety we all share 
in system we had built that shows we care. 

Dismissing tragic events of this age, 
caused by the greedy vampire on world stage, 
King Midas shouts that he will rule the world 
while citizens pray for the cosmic herald 
to solve our crisis with respectful law 
enforced by wisdom of brave Onatah. 

Illusion of power enforced by guns 
dissolves at radiance of our freedom songs 
so we rise up from lethargy of fear 
and march against the thieving puppeteer 
to free America from tyranny 
and build stronger global democracy. 


Way Of Flowing Streams

Way Of Flowing Streams
© Surazeus
2025 03 28

If the moon could speak, she would tell me why 
sad people are never allowed to cry 
while they hang upside down in the Joy Tree 
and sing anthem about how to live free 
through clarion call of the mountain wind 
with broken hearts only beauty can mend. 

If the noble stag of the forest grove 
escapes the hunter for the treasure trove, 
my heart leaps laughing with joyful respect, 
foolhardy guest devils fail to detect, 
so I ask the moon why humans must die 
who tries to explain the afterlife lie. 

Since I can never know your secret heart, 
though I trace your fortune on the star chart, 
you remain completely unknowable 
therefore I choose to find you lovable 
each day we wake together in our space, 
still in love with your mysterious face. 

If fear constrains me with paralysis 
of desperate hope forged from analysis, 
I transfer anguish to the puppet show 
that I perform in soft blue evening glow 
till soldiers shoot us for protesting hate, 
defined by commands of aggressive fate. 

When people who can hear vibes of Earth Soul 
invent loud silence that no bell can toll, 
we gather to protest cruel tyranny 
till we are inspired by epiphany 
that songs of faith can cripple feeble power 
and free Liberty from the Ivory Tower. 

With pulsing material of frantic light, 
contrived by flow of time untangled right, 
my heart paints portrait of the soul I love 
who wears pretty mask of the willing slave, 
yet we give each other freedom to play, 
choosing in the end to unite and stay. 

More than halfway to the end of my tale, 
I leave church where everything is for sale 
and wander in ephemeral glow of faith 
to find pure emanation of my wraith 
that guides me toward the vale where I will sleep, 
so I ask the Earth my frail bones to keep. 

Whereas our hearts are equally intense 
with loyal passion of our future tense, 
we share one winding road of earnest hope 
to help each other thrive well as we cope, 
so we generate children of our dreams 
who help us map the way of flowing streams. 


Thursday, March 27, 2025

Secret Of Star Flowers

Secret Of Star Flowers
© Surazeus
2025 03 27

Totally lost in madness of his dreams, 
Samuel strums rusty-stringed guitar and sings 
in harmony with buzz of the radio 
till his brain sprouts four plastic raven wings 
when five men wearing masks in the black car 
handcuff his thin hands and take him away. 

Locked with Pandora in the golden cage, 
Samuel stands on his hands for twenty hours 
while she explains the secret of star flowers 
that beam the animating soul of love 
which fills his body with conceptual juice 
since dictators never honor the truce. 

Entranced by golden snake eyes of the girl, 
Samuel gives Pandora his finger bones 
so she can weave from threads of history 
life-tale of Lucifer in tapestry 
that hangs in castle hall of honesty 
where Beowulf reads his new poetry. 

Once Samuel crawls out of his turtle shell, 
Pandora, twirling around their glass cage, 
shows him how to become invisible 
to people staring at them in the zoo, 
so he breathes deep and spits words on the wall 
that transform into scarlet butterflies. 

Molding thick mud of his worm-consumed brain 
into small model of the Trojan Horse, 
Samuel gives ten thousand oranges of fate 
to Pandora with smooth bow of respect, 
so she makes orange juice people buy online 
so she can buy fake wings of Icarus. 

Holding up sign painted with blood of ghosts, 
Samuel declares for dead angels to hear, 
"Respect existence of every live soul 
or expect resistance of the mad fools 
who demand freedom and justice for all," 
but people driving cars in rain honk horns. 

Hugging the mad fool to her loving breast, 
Pandora chants disapparation spell 
which teleports them far around the Earth 
from detention cell in Louisiana 
to ancient ruins of the Parthenon 
where they kiss till the Earth becomes more real. 

Taking selfies on their broken eye-phones 
among time-weathered pillars of their hearts, 
Samuel and Pandora, smiling with joy, 
announce their marriage on social media 
which garners thousands of congratulations, 
then they grow old and die in their zoo cage. 


Sapphire Of World Peace

Sapphire Of World Peace
© Surazeus
2025 03 27

Luminous phantom of the great egret 
spreads her delicate wings in doting breeze 
and glides grandly over wind-rippled lake 
that glitters blue as sapphire of world peace 
with secret message from her aching heart 
that Nature still blooms after we are gone. 

Drinking root beer at the old picnic bench, 
Sophia watches clouds gleam over houses 
where people are living safe in their faith. 
"I cannot feel bombs rattle family homes 
in that distant land far across the sea 
where my ancestors lived centuries ago." 

Tossing the fantasy novel she wrote 
into the sapphire-blue lake of world peace, 
Sophia declares with sarcastic voice, 
"The political game in this great land 
has gotten so absurd that comedy 
has been neutered by their incompetence." 

Covering her face with thin paint-smeared hands, 
Sophia cries with broken-hearted angst 
as she thinks about how her mother died 
because her social security funds 
were blocked from transfer to her bank accounts, 
so she died when the bank foreclosed her house. 

Walking past the shuttered car factory, 
Sophia climbs stairs to her studio 
where she stares at the half-finished portrait 
depicting homeless people in torn tents 
who cook canned soup under the highway bridge 
where an Amazon delivery truck gleams. 

Dipping stiff-haired brush in glob of red paint, 
Sophia paints barely-seen smudge of blood 
on hands of the banker in clean blue suit 
who blithely drives his new gold-painted car 
past encampment where seven people live 
whose homes he foreclosed over the past year. 

Peering close at figure of the old woman, 
Sophia paints the yellow flowered dress 
her mother loved to wear attending church, 
who now pushes shopping cart of her things, 
including books of family photographs 
of her ancestors the past hundred years. 

"Our spirits become part of this alien land 
when we bury our parents in its soil, 
and our words become the wind in its trees." 
Streaking white flash of light, Sophia paints 
luminous phantom of the great egret 
gliding grandly over the homeless camp. 


Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Unhappy In Weird Heaven

Unhappy In Weird Heaven
© Surazeus
2025 03 26

Ordained intensity of our fierce life 
provides conceptual frame for ardent door 
for which my tongue designs the singing leaf 
that flashes old memories in wordless blur, 
engrossed in program that reverses time 
with casual grief that nurtures my new dream. 

Awake with curious faith in haunted hills 
with tattered scrolls, long hid in sacred sands, 
I play my game out of sync with church bells 
from static message that fractures quaint minds 
too eager for embroidered book of tales 
that mocks kind people who live without goals. 

Stuck in portrait that depicts the last star 
which gleams on faces of warriors in gloom, 
I change my image at alarm of war 
to hide behind mask of the loyal team 
and translate strange cries of electric birds 
that gather in oaks at howl of mad bards. 

On flat-top pyramid as watchful guard, 
armed with taut bow of arrogant desire, 
I achieve creative project of God, 
who embodies the monster we most fear, 
by analyzing mental state of Man 
who incarnates psychic light of the sun. 

Unhappy in weird Heaven we create, 
I assemble puzzle of my God Face, 
that pulses calmly with eclectic light 
which luminates false rooms of my old house, 
from soul of each ancestor in my genes 
whose voice whispers in marrow of my bones. 

Performing my new role as Sisyphus, 
I construct cars in the steel factory 
to prove I could be more magnanimous 
with urgent spirit of democracy 
because this world is older than our souls 
that shimmer whitely in Odinian wells. 

I ride long train of circumstance back home 
to where I tame the horse in apple grove 
with primal language through uncertain hymn 
detailing progress of romantic love 
by which we generate aggressive souls 
who conquer Earth with calculating scales. 

Crouched in the silent trance, I watch the moon 
transform souls of our war-traumatized saints 
from avid angels to idolized stone 
who default on their government accounts 
in time for tragic marriage of true minds 
who share electrons in covalent bonds. 


My Unpossessed Heart

My Unpossessed Heart
© Surazeus
2025 03 26

Beyond vast picture of painted landscapes 
I see uncertain whiteness of pure depths 
reflecting ugly beauty of our world 
that frames my face as god in glowing clouds, 
so I rebuke that darkness in the sea 
that molded me from passion to fly free. 

The whiteness in gloomy depths of my heart 
contains the ancient truth I hope to see, 
but one teardrop from Heaven falling far 
erases vision of the unseen world, 
so I walk backward on the signless road 
that everyone wants to name for their god. 

The fragmentary whiteness of my world 
encloses me in meadow of lush grass, 
so I stand breathing spirit of the sky 
with motionless mind of the spinning globe 
to feel how borders limit our landscapes 
to scope of truth in what our eyes perceive. 

The people in the village by the sea, 
who support my poor family with calm care, 
are swept into white depths by sudden storm 
that hurls enormous waves of arrogance 
with mute indifference of lightning-flashed wind 
so not even their secret names remain. 

The whiteness of the world offers no gifts 
more than I would need to live each day 
while tending apple trees by the blind lake 
surrounded by strange darkness of the wind 
that scatters leaves across my fenceless yard 
on which I write these poems I never sing. 

Nothing that exists in material form 
transcends sweet whiteness of the cheerful dawn 
beyond what spirit of the sky provides, 
though faceless god whom everyone adores 
never replies to my sincerest prayers 
except that Nature keeps blooming with life. 

Every land where my ancestors have lived 
across ten thousand miles of their long road 
has never belonged to them, though they lie 
buried in its soil so their bones provide 
lattice of honesty that forms landscapes 
where I travel with my unpossessed heart. 

We journey west to find home of the sun 
ten thousand years over mountains and seas, 
but find the Earth is round and never ends, 
so I stop on rugged coast of the world 
and give my alien spirit to this land 
which sings my ballads long after I die. 


Light-Winged Dryad

Light-Winged Dryad
© Surazeus
2025 03 26

The light-winged dryad of the trees calls me 
to dance with her in blooming hemlock grove, 
so into numberless shadows we twirl 
on pungent shore of sparkling Lethe stream 
to ease sharp ache of sorrow in our hearts 
by sharing pleasure of our mortal souls. 

With slavish thirst of chemical-bound frames 
we drink sweet water from the Hippocrene 
that bubbles deep in forest of dead gods 
whose voices echo softly in the wind 
with lustrous eyes of drowsy memories 
that make us groan when we kiss at sunset. 

No longer full of sorrow or despair, 
because we stay together hand in hand 
while blazing our own pathway in dark woods, 
we wander secretly where stars guide us 
far from the crowded streets of market towns 
to find where Queen-Moon lies among flowers. 

Where Bacchus dances among white hawthorns, 
deep in thick groves of winding mossy ways, 
we seek strange beauty of grim star-eyed Death 
whose horror teaches us to love our lives 
and treasure limitations we secure, 
which nurtures fragile spirits of our hearts. 

Thus fortified with pastoral glow of faith 
that strengthens us with courage of the truth, 
we venture into maze of crowded streets 
to comprehend with clear observing eyes 
mystery of competitive money games 
people perform to gain power of wealth. 

Sweet heart-enchanting music of the stars 
sung by immortal nightingale of hope 
long charmed our hearts with vision of the world 
where every person honors rules of life, 
but now its calm inspiring requiem 
fades trammeled by commercial shouts of greed. 

Divine melody of her plaintive anthem, 
which animates our bodies with Star Soul, 
sung by deceiving elf inside our hearts, 
writhes twisted into parody of faith 
by men obsessed with fame of thought-control 
willing to buy anything with the coin. 

Long trapped in labyrinth of social greed 
as helpless pawns in pageantry of power, 
we assert halting steps with urgent cause 
to escape frantic market place of fear 
and seek to dwell again in meadow grove 
where birds sing freely by the sparkling stream. 


Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Far From Falling Bombs

Far From Falling Bombs
© Surazeus
2025 03 25

Because we pass through thick shadows of hope 
while driving ribbon of moonlight alone, 
we see our spirits dwelling in wild trees, 
so we buy passports from the cavern ghost 
to cross the border from our war-torn state 
and live in the woods far from falling bombs. 

Our misconstrued breath of hope for world peace 
suffocates angry shadows of despair, 
so we exchange faces by the pool of tears, 
sure we will inherit the Earth from hate, 
then walk the road of danger to the farm 
where Phoebus plows fields far from falling bombs. 

Twirling baton in parade of dead gods, 
Minerva leads the marching band with pride 
around the marble monument to ghosts 
whose blood dribbles from red stripes of our flag 
above the park where people eat roast steak 
and waltz to music far from falling bombs. 

Phoebus trudges plowed field in leather boots, 
gathering crosses painted with false names, 
and throws them in piles at the Gate of Heaven 
where chanting crowd burns them under old stars 
till wings of angels are crippled by rage 
yet they try to fly far from falling bombs. 

The beautiful sky of the Evening Land, 
that shimmers with fire over country towns, 
hides wordless horror as Nero plays lyre 
and sings about the Trickster who deceives 
to avoid service in the holy war, 
and plays piano far from falling bombs. 

Walking in forest of rebellious faith 
to join convention of primordial gods, 
I erase the road of my journey home 
to dance on tightrope over the abyss 
so you can find truth in skulls of dead seers 
that speak with water far from falling bombs. 

The clever child who graduates from fate 
lights lamps along the frosted boulevard 
to reciprocate horror with calm faith 
when the luminous phantom becomes breeze 
that rustles leaves of trees on fruited plains 
in garden of hope far from falling bombs. 

The old man in the boat on moonlit lake 
sings ancient melody from Babylon 
where cattle graze among the fallen pillars 
with plans to rebuild Temple of the Mind 
as haven for the ghosts expelled from church 
who sing with new hope far from falling bombs. 


Follow Jesus To Fish

Follow Jesus To Fish
© Surazeus
2025 03 25

So many ways to fall out of the mind 
and weave light of the sun in roots of trees 
when I transform into angel from fish, 
and tell the old Sea Woman what I wish 
as her hair swirls around in evening breeze 
while she wanders beside the red-furred hind. 

The convex mirror that reflects my soul 
reveals strange beauty of the human heart 
in how we choose to play chess game with Death 
who sits enthroned before the monolith 
and studies fortune on our world star chart 
to see who next should play her priestess role. 

Still wearing black silk gown after the dance, 
Death takes my hand and leads me to the pool 
where she reveals weird secret of rebirth 
which I record with runes in Book of Earth 
to outline magic of the mental tool 
we use to divert fate with random chance. 

Embraced with passion of the spinning world, 
we generate soul for child of our love 
who leads great army of horses and men 
to gather herbs for making medicine 
while guided by her starship from above 
till revolution of the cosmic herald. 

Death resurrects my body with each life 
which she designs with programmed memories 
encoded through immortal soul of genes, 
so I invent bold industrial machines 
to mass-produce wealth in vast factories 
controlled by bankers during global strife. 

Returning from bloody fields of world war, 
young men who set out to make the world great 
follow Jesus to fish on ocean boats 
or linger on hillsides with herds of goats 
while sons of bankers feast behind locked gates 
and Phoebus runs the corner grocery store. 

Now most fully in love with easeful Death, 
calling her soft names with voice of the wind, 
Phoebus kisses her with passionate faith, 
then shouts to glowing clouds of the star wraith 
that he now finds it much more rich to live 
with lightning-nurtured vision of whole breath. 

While Death takes care of their child Artemis, 
Phoebus drives van on the crowded highway 
to visit new aquarium in town, 
since he wears his jeweled emperor crown, 
where he sees shine in the golden skyway 
the Revolution Stone of Sisyphus. 


Monday, March 24, 2025

Blue Iris Of Innocence

Blue Iris Of Innocence
© Surazeus
2025 03 24

The delicate blue iris of innocence 
blooms among bull thistles, crabgrass, purslane, 
and horseweed in the fenced-in vacant lot 
with humble beauty of the faceless girl 
who arranges stones in circles of faith 
to enclose dazed silence of afternoon. 

Gold-breasted kingbird with quick darting eyes 
reigns from her nest in the mulberry bush 
with elegant grace of wind-hopping faith 
to prove that compassionate grace of trust 
heals broken-hearted people of the world 
who struggle to escape dire circumstance. 

Trapped in the bureaucratic maze of fear, 
Maria Flores stares at cement wall 
where ghostly faces of her children glow 
though seven years of loneliness have passed 
since agents arrested them on the bridge 
when they were driving home from Mexico. 

Released from detention one afternoon, 
Maria Flores walks the quiet town 
past the fenced-in vacant lot of her heart 
where ghost of her daughter arranges stones 
to protect blue iris of innocence, 
then lies down under the mulberry bush. 

Not knowing where to find her family, 
Maria Flores walks to the old church 
but the door is locked and the lights are out, 
so she works as the night-shift janitor 
at the hotel near the airport highway 
and sleeps at night by the mulberry bush. 

Attending church each Sunday afternoon, 
Maria Flores prays for light of hope, 
kneeling at statue of Mother and Child,  
to find where her husband and children live,
then walks past city park where children play 
while angels scream in pain too far away. 

Twisted branches of trees gleam in the pool 
that shimmers beside the large ice-smooth stone 
where Maria Flores, numb from despair, 
stares at calm beauty of the silver sky 
that erases gaunt beauty of her face 
and carves it on the stone of solitude. 

Kneeling before tombstone behind the church 
carved with name of her mother in gray letters, 
Zuzia Flores weeps with pain of relief 
after searching for more than twenty years, 
then looks up at sharp song of the kingbird 
who takes her heart and flies beyond the world. 


See Beyond The World

See Beyond The World
© Surazeus
2025 03 24

Staring at the stars that may not be real 
because they burned out millennia ago, 
I think about the life I want to live 
creating beautiful art for the heart 
from the ugly misery of working life, 
and decide I want to grow tangerines. 

The bomb of deep insight that blows my mind 
when the blue-collar painter of the house 
becomes the painter of modern fine art 
restarts the clock of purpose in my heart, 
unwinding social programs in my brain 
so I become the grass of the weird world. 

When I hear the ancient voice of the Earth 
speak through the trees that sprout from the soil 
I feel them moving in motion with hope 
that swirls with atoms from first flash of time 
and winds tight ball of energy as Earth 
that shimmers in sweet juice of tangerines. 

First Mother of every life-form on Earth 
lives inside our brains as shared memory 
which motivates hearts of organic creatures 
with passion to sing strange song of the sea 
for she composed first program of our genes 
to generate our souls from chemicals. 

Young girl at the kitchen table of sorrow, 
wearing yellow dress of butterfly wings, 
stares past pretty face of her lonely mother 
who smokes while cooking scrambled eggs and ham, 
waves magic-wand spatula of hard truth, 
and growls, "Everything in books is a lie." 

Lying beside me on the star-gleamed lawn, 
she tells me how she feels about desire. 
"When I saw the sad painting on the wall 
that depicts young mother with suckling child 
who waits for her husband home from the sea, 
my mother laughed loud with explosive scorn." 

"Light waves of words flow down into my heart," 
she sings with haunting voice soft as the wind, 
"and fill my mind with dreams of life and death 
that every creature who has ever lived 
performs in journey of its eager will 
to create beauty from anguish of fear." 

The girl who will not die lives in my heart, 
and haunts my steps four hundred million years, 
for she wears crimson gown of burning stars 
and teaches me to see beyond the world 
through ancient eyes she designed in the sea 
so I know where to go beyond tomorrow. 


Trickster Of Truth

Trickster Of Truth
© Surazeus
2025 03 24

The great horned owl introduces the moon 
into reticent room of my vast heart, 
so I start my day as trickster of truth 
by sending flocks of happy butterflies 
to paint the world with blood-red light of dawn 
that wakes everyone with language of wind. 

The roots of trees draw sorrow from my heart, 
translating unknown fears to humble songs 
that measure curvature of my soul spine 
to speak with dialect of bodied minds 
which cleanses our hearts with glow of respect 
through wakefulness of unmirrored desire. 

In my idyllic world of steady faith 
I play guitar before the empty church 
and sing grand epic of the human race 
that praises humble people of the state 
who go about their business every day 
while face-painted clowns play fake power games. 

My fishing village at end of the lake 
provides bountiful wealth from heart of Earth 
where strong-hearted girls thrive in howling wind 
and cast bright snowflakes far across the land 
that sprout into periwinkles of hope 
where children play chase Sabbath afternoons. 

No more the world-exploring traveler 
I was when I was young and vigorous, 
I now am blowsy-headed gardener, 
dazed by strange beauty of her sun-lit face 
as we tend twisted trees of ghastly fruit 
that nourish the demonic in our hearts. 

Since I will never see the black egret 
wade in wind-rippled pond behind my house, 
I mold green shadows of weird psychic dreams 
in masks that humans wear to play as cows 
which graze among the dancing daffodils 
while I bare my heart to the healing sun. 

Packing emotional baggage of faith 
with false memories my dream-fears invent, 
I walk the signless road of everywhere 
past ladders that extend into the clouds 
to stamp obverse side of the royal coin 
with face of my father, the kind storm god. 

If clouds begin to serenade my ghost 
with the heart-enchanting afterlife lie, 
I will unanchor ship of my fierce heart 
to live unsettled life on restless seas 
so I can find the treasure trove of tropes 
I use to build this virtual world of dreams. 


Sunday, March 23, 2025

We Feel Safe At Home

We Feel Safe At Home
© Surazeus
2025 03 23

Home is the place in time where I am born 
with each new day Earth spins around the sun, 
so I should never feel sad or forlorn 
with you beside me to play games of fun, 
for though we wander far from our first hearth 
we feel safe at home anywhere on Earth. 

With eyes fixed on the past where I come from 
I walk backward to the new home I build 
while chanting spells in rhythm with the drum 
as founding member of the Singers Guild, 
recording tales of heroes we adore 
whose mothers wait still in their open door. 

Old bearded wizard in the forest grove 
explains to me the past is never dead, 
and not even past as our memory trove, 
for history is the dream poem in our head 
that we recite each night in feasting hall 
to praise the dead whose masks hang on the wall. 

On flowing water of our history ghost 
we sail our boat of life on stream of time, 
then feast in temple of the generous host 
who offers wisdom of the ritual chime 
while actors play dramatic roles on stage 
in tales I record on the timeless page. 

The future always seems invisible 
while the past presents everything we know, 
yet our own tale is still discoverable 
as we resist fate to go with the flow 
through fierce subversion of the ancient truth 
now redesigned by our messiah sleuth. 

Each present moment beams beyond our reach 
so we record events as they occur 
to synthesize truth our descendants teach 
reversing roles of God and Lucifer 
as tyrant overthrown by rebel clown 
whom we elect to wear the thorny crown. 

Though frightened crowd attends fear of their rage 
at innocent scapegoat they sacrifice, 
the victim resurrects as victor sage 
who shelters the oppressed in paradise, 
for Heaven is commune of equal rights 
according to great epic no one writes. 

I strum lyre and sing, wherever I roam 
in mountains or vales of our spinning Earth 
my heart I carry with me is my home 
for soul of each human is beyond worth, 
thus we must fight against cruel tyranny 
to keep our global democracy free. 


Brave New World

Brave New World
© Surazeus
2025 03 23

Wandering the same road as everyone else, 
I fluctuate in and out of existence 
while I draw the true to erase the false 
through dream synergy of psychic persistence 
because the roads we walk today remain 
long after our souls vanish in the rain. 

Turning the radio knob of my brain, 
I feel my voice fade in and out of silence 
so secret words may clarify in vain 
truths I dare not express without the license 
issued by Institute of Proper Truth 
managed by son of the messiah sleuth. 

Dancing around the Trevi Fountain Pool, 
I flicker in and out of film observance 
and throw three coins, according to the rule, 
to wish for happiness from divine science 
in sacred water of romantic love 
we first experience in the moonlit cove. 

Descending spiral road to caves of Hell, 
I wander in and out of time appliance 
through literary door of thought control 
to find my soulmate with hermetic guidance 
when I invade cathedral hall of breath 
through inspiration of psychotic death. 

Outlining patterns in material forms, 
I flash in and out of idea persistence 
to manage estates of flourishing farms 
united in empire of social alliance 
as we integrate nations of the world 
in one state measured by the cosmic herald. 

Uniting rich diversity of souls, 
I vibe in and out of legal compliance 
with generous respect for all lifestyles 
which bond well in cooperative acceptance 
that fuels engine of artistic endeavors 
in bold creation of cultural treasures. 

Analyzing conceptual state of being, 
I breathe in and out of scriptural reliance 
through inspiration of the angel wing 
that sparks vision of prophetic contrivance 
in revelation of the new world order 
that will erase every national border. 

Designing new global world view of life, 
I whirl in and out of spiritual defiance 
with strict elocution through mental strife 
to unite the world with artful transcendence 
by building on ruins of America 
brave new world empire of Zarathia. 


My Grief Is My Own

My Grief Is My Own
© Surazeus
2025 03 23

My grief is my own, so I will contain 
volatile ardor of my suffering 
trapped in receptacle of my strained heart 
to preserve aggression of passive angst 
safe from causing injury to other people 
who struggle to deal with their own affliction. 

So many innocent people of Earth, 
who seek to escape oppressive conditions 
and struggle across waste land of despair 
to find haven safe from exploitive thieves, 
stumble blind into far worse situations, 
trapped in bitter hell they cannot escape. 

Accumulation of their wordless grief, 
piled onto unbalanced scale of my heart, 
weighs all their suffering of relentless pain 
more heavy than enormous mindless stones 
crushing my mind with fearful agony 
that I cannot rescue even one from sorrow. 

I want to save, with bold alacrity 
of eager zeal, every person on Earth 
trapped in exploitive hell by greedy thieves 
who suck their vital dreams with vampire lust 
so maze of cities becomes cluttered thick 
with traumatized zombies searching for love. 

Numb from excessive vibes of bitter pain 
radiating from mute hearts of fear-trapped souls 
who despair at ever living in freedom, 
I wander vast maze of weird mythless world 
past smiling faces that hide helpless regret 
which drives them to stage ineffective rituals. 

Clutching to my heart with desperate hope 
magic ring of invisibility, 
I clamber down in Underworld of fear 
to forge divine key of true comprehension 
so I can open every prison door 
and free frightened souls trapped in legal limbo. 

Hundreds of thousands of women and men, 
trapped in void between law and lawlessness 
as alien immigrants to Wonderland, 
cry out for help to Storm God in Glow Cloud 
who invests power in wealthy oligarchs 
to enslave their bodies for pilfered profit. 

The cage-trapped Eagle of America, 
who tries to hatch stone of grand principle 
that every soul is equal in the law, 
attempts to escape storm of revolution, 
but dies when its head cracks at golden bars, 
so I keep heart-breaking grief to myself. 


Saturday, March 22, 2025

Mirror Mask Of Sisyphus

Mirror Mask Of Sisyphus
© Surazeus
2025 03 22

Hieroglyphs inscribed on lightning-cracked stones 
depict the Raven God with thirteen eyes 
leading refugees of home-blasting war 
through narrow roadless mountain vale of hope 
to find dream garden of the Promised Land 
hidden behind enormous walls of wealth. 

To walk backward in future of the mind 
where television screens in trunks of trees 
present whole history of the human race, 
I wear the mirror mask of Sisyphus 
to stand before statue of Pegasus 
and pose for celebrity photographs. 

While marching in the band of howling clowns 
in oval stadium full of cheering crowds, 
we gather fragments of shattered world views 
to build abstract sculptures of twisted bars 
which represent the leading characters 
performing roles in our disastrous show. 

Organic forms of plants and animals 
emerge from pungent passion of the soil 
to play the subtle personality 
sensitive to ever-shifting terrain 
in social drama fraught with fake respect 
that changes lives with contrived honesty. 

Traveling through space of transforming time 
to work in garden of flowers and herbs, 
I consider how the stranger might feel 
on reversing tide of conceptual hope 
where I shall sing plain prophecies of doom 
while taking stock of truth designed by fate. 

Wolves surround the wounded king in the snow 
who prays to the rising moon with fierce hope 
to extract lithium from old rugged hills 
where every honest poet in the world 
wanders among cactus of blind skeletons 
who dance on graves of thieving oligarchs. 

If we remember her electric laugh 
that rings cathedral bells of self-control, 
we might soon comprehend why colors cry 
to robot angels of Elysium 
who sell stolen feathers of Pegasus 
to curious tourists from land of the brave. 

Though I escape blank page of the dream book 
I will play better self my heart designs 
to steal the thorny crown of sacrifice 
from head of the god who eats lightning strikes 
so he can become human before he dies 
and his atoms formulate flowing streams. 


Unwinds Clockless Time

Unwinds Clockless Time
© Surazeus
2025 03 22

Stars sink into the dusty yard of sad, 
uwinding clockless time of random thoughts 
that swindle mystery of its puzzling truth 
so we forget soft why of arrogance 
when children tiptoe past the room of death 
where asters burst through windows of disgust. 

My body encased in ghost-sheen of frost 
breaks free from dragon egg of naked hope 
when I wake in darkness of empty rooms 
and drive through light of endless waning moons 
forever over contours of my brain 
that match the landscape of unshadowed vales. 

Each river that loses its sacred name 
in swirling indifference of the blind sea 
describes annunciation of rebirth 
where nameless swimmers search for my real home 
to howl each time they emerge for fresh air 
with visitation of angelic ghouls. 

The painting of the woman on the wall 
who calls to the fisherman in the boat 
that floats between lonely hills and glow clouds 
reveals uneasy doubts I try to hide 
in bowl of tangerines beside the book 
that seems to record tale of the last god. 

When I go back to the house for the book 
presenting story of the cosmic herald, 
I get stuck in time loop of false desire 
through inquisition of the holy cult 
based on hypothetical creed of faith, 
awake on tranquil bay of innocence. 

As displaced person of the jungle tribe, 
clutching relic of my fear-broken god, 
I meditate on nature of the heart 
in cold cement prison cell of fear, 
stuck in limbo between Heaven and Hell 
that reflect state of mind I imitate. 

Still priest of Hermes in old temple ruins, 
I play the sacred flute of haunting angst 
that weaves pure darkness of the lonely heart 
in star-stained fragrance of barley and wine 
while I guide you on the shadowy path 
to lightless Underworld of faceless ghosts. 

Yet Caliban emerges with green blood 
from treacherous womb of the willow witch 
to sing ice-crystal absence of the heart 
with heart-amending melody of faith 
that gushes from eyes of the jester king 
who uwinds clockless time of riddle dreams. 


Windy Alder Swamp

Windy Alder Swamp
© Surazeus
2025 03 22

When I find at last the wild alder swamp 
where, many years ago before my birth 
Jack Frost, the mad-eyed seer of Vermont, 
found winter garden of red-berried snow, 
I see rancid paradise he described 
that ever floats between Heaven and Earth. 

His gaunt luxuriating beast of fate 
still lurks in shadows of this alder swamp 
where trees begin to bud in spring-flared light 
that strips my soul of anguished self-concern 
so I stand denuded and vulnerable 
to close inspection of late-winter sun. 

Intense anxiety of wordless fear 
swells thick inside my heart with thwarted hope 
for something beautiful beyond this pain 
that surges ocean tides of bitter faith 
in dark depression of black moody sky, 
till I express despair with harpy cry. 

Stuck in blackening phase of alchemy 
that sears my heart with tangled energy, 
I breathe deep foul scent of the alder swamp, 
suppressed by frigid frost of winter gloom, 
then harmonize expressive melody 
in hopeful tones of weird aggressive hymn. 

With sudden whir of sober-feathered birds, 
that swoop through matrix of time-twisted limbs, 
I feel depressive passion bloom awake 
with flowers bursting from leaf-matted soil 
in words far sadder than the mist-veiled moon 
that glows indifferently with pretty light. 

Still on the forlorn road of vanished hope 
in windy alder swamp of hungry birds, 
I sense storm clouds fly tattered over hills 
reflected in cracked quartz stone in my hand 
that refracts depression with moon-white gleam 
so I find words to express how I feel. 

Rain-soaked boughs of alders overhead 
shake water of lost Heaven on my face, 
so I crouch by sky-silver pond of truth, 
and almost caress rippling waves with hands 
that feel vibration of this ancient Earth 
pulse in tune with beating heart in my breast. 

So I decide to choose less traveled road 
from winter garden in the alder swamp 
that bends through undergrowth of memories 
to free my heart from forest of regret 
so I can measure difference of my doubt 
through choices I make that create my fate. 


Friday, March 21, 2025

Courage Of The Wolf

Courage Of The Wolf
© Surazeus
2025 03 21

The chemical properties of the ghost 
teach me to impersonate my old self 
with careful beauty of library shelves 
which call me with voice of the lonely wolf 
trapped in the box of love letters I lost 
till grenade of my heart explodes with love. 

When I write my autobiography 
I must balance binary of the brain 
between withholding or revealing pain 
with shameless passion of the aching heart 
that plays the exhibitionist of lust 
bleeding from core of my pathetic past. 

The woman I love wearing long black dress, 
who stands in cemetery of lost faith, 
calls out to spiders of the starless lair 
to rise from rotten brains of ancient gods 
and weave vast web of tangled platitudes, 
so they obey the star-eyed spider witch. 

The woman I love wearing white silk gown 
plucks orange from the tree of clandestine faith, 
then offers it to me with open hands 
and smile that dazzles me with light of truth, 
so we embrace in passionate respect 
with hearts entangled in red thread of love. 

While sitting by the window at her desk, 
the woman I love wearing flower wreath 
types lines of words on paper of my heart 
while her gold cat stretches with nonchalance 
behind typewriter clacking with weird spell 
that weaves my body frame from sentences. 

Leading me by hand to the apple grove 
where skulls of dead gods sing old prophecies, 
she teaches me the song of river light 
so I can understand the burning house 
where angels beat their wings in furious hope 
to heal the brokenhearted of the world. 

Cadence of wrens in maple trees inspire 
my heart to rise from empty grave of faith 
and give my last apple with generous hand 
to the oldest woman in the whole world 
who teaches me to read how water flows 
because the innocent girl always knows. 

He holds the Book of Dreams in crippled hand 
and prays till it becomes the silver raven 
who knows the secret name my mother sang 
while cuddling me in shelter of her arms 
when thunderstorm raged over mountain vales 
to fill my heart with courage of the wolf. 


When Light Strides Bold

When Light Strides Bold
© Surazeus
2025 03 21

When light strides bold on solitary fields 
and speaks to me of truth I should know well, 
I weave its vibrant colors in my heart 
as science overtakes my aching need 
and teaches me to feel the sacrament 
encroaching on my soul with eerie tones. 

With each ancestral life of hope I walk, 
awake in present body of my genes, 
I find out who I am through suffering 
as I abide with struggles of the heart 
on unblazed trail past milestones of desire 
where angels scold me with dire honesty. 

Though tribe of my gene-clan is scattered far 
and wide across the landscape of lost hope, 
and everyone I love has turned to stones 
that lie forgotten on the trail of tears, 
I keep on walking toward dark distant hills 
to reconcile my heart with knowing faith. 

Black wings of ravens in the sprawling oak, 
that flutter at approach of breathless fear, 
reveal strange beauty of her star-bright eyes 
that guide my way with confidence of love 
through tangled forest of misconstrued words 
where god of sorrow lurks by pool of lies. 

She howls not at injustice of the world 
for she steals away from its hostile games 
to dance in meadow of the singing horse 
who gives her wings of faithful mystery 
so she can touch weird beauty of the sky 
that mirrors secret wisdom of her heart. 

While wandering on the hill of hopelessness, 
we meet the moon-eyed prophet of despair 
whose face is chiseled gaunt by wind-blown rain, 
and ask if he can see future events, 
but he points to the endless swirling sea 
and chants grim spell that may set all hearts free. 

The shriveled souls of fallen angels writhe 
with violent agony surpassing faith, 
dismissing possibilities through hope 
that we may resurrect from rotten mud, 
so we wrap all painful experiences 
in secret book of miraculous life. 

Across our tranquil land of signless roads 
we follow shadow of the singing horse 
to fertile Garden of Hesperides 
where the wizard forges everyone keys 
so we can share sweet joy of this brief life 
when light strides bold on solitary fields. 


Attention Of The Court

Attention Of The Court
© Surazeus
2025 03 21

The trees of sorrow on the laughing plain 
call my secret name in arrogant rain, 
so I seek beauty on the wind-lashed shore 
far outside comfort of the broken door 
to sing with demons of Plutonian night 
who shriek in horror at comfort of light. 

Yet, when I wake in normal state of mind, 
that bizarre illusion my brain designed 
dissipates at glow of dawn on the wall, 
so I wander groggily down the hall 
to stare out the window and drink orange juice 
while pretending I am not son of Zeus. 

As agent of his secret justice squad, 
recruited out of college by Storm God, 
I must devise coherent action plan 
with clever wisdom of the mountain man 
to save our great nation from tyranny 
and restore functioning democracy. 

So I fry eggs and hash browns on the stove 
while I count weapons in the treasure trove, 
then drive the crowded highway into work, 
where old spies and treasonous assets lurk, 
to write detailed situation report 
about the need for clandestine support. 

Organizing gangs of soldiers with guns 
who discuss war plans with misleading puns, 
I gather army of fierce patriots 
who arrive in pairs and take up their spots 
to remove the traitor from seat of power 
who hides terrified in his golden tower. 

Just as we are ready to save the state 
Minerva intervenes with spear of fate, 
declaring that we are a nation of laws 
dedicated to maintain noble cause 
of justice through attention of the court 
to enforce the right and punish the tort. 

Though the traitor threatens to seize rich land, 
and the thief waves the chainsaw in his hand, 
we will not employ acts of violence 
that would break all dutiful precedence 
to arrest their rampage of grasping greed 
through application of our honest creed. 

Biding our time in shadows of the truth, 
we develop plan with messiah sleuth 
to arrange by the book through legal means 
Operation Caesar with judgment liens 
executed well by our cosmic herald 
who leads revolution to save the world. 

Thursday, March 20, 2025

Tides Of Our Ocean Mind

Tides Of Our Ocean Mind
© Surazeus
2025 03 20

I find the natural history of my soul 
as primal star-glitter of the First Flash 
in crystal geodes of the agate stone 
that reflects memories of ancestral brains 
woven in tangled genes of my sponge brain 
that pulses with tides of our ocean mind. 

Crouched by twisted pine on snow-frosted shore, 
I become wild gush of the mountain stream 
that sings ten thousand years about true love 
based on the clumsy way I interact 
with people who perceive me every day, 
so I walk ten thousand miles to the sky. 

Because pines know the reason I was born 
they dream the way I walk beyond my death 
since ferns are growing from my bloody chest 
in jeering sunlight of uncoupled time, 
so I eat raspberries from thorny vines 
to prove Pain cannot find my naked soul. 

With twisted finger of perpetual hope 
I write long treatise in forest-floor dirt 
discussing existential truth of roots 
in complex theory on meaning of time 
that unwinds mute surprise of ringing bells 
at pungent scent of mushrooms in wet soil. 

From gaunt-faced hunter in dark primal woods 
to noble well-fed king in castle court, 
I paint enormous canvas of my trip 
in winding maze of myths beyond my grave 
to chat with alligators in the swamp 
who work as lawyers in my new regime. 

Hysteric laughter of the Apple Witch 
startles me awake from ominous dream 
to calculate thematic drone of faith 
when planes crash burning in the field of wheat 
to prove we understand how Death unbinds 
spirits from brains of unbroken desire. 

In solidarity with distraught hawks, 
wounded soldiers draped in the red-cross flag 
walk stuck in loop of the lunar eclipse 
that conceals the road home to paradise 
though they study patterns of weird behavior 
based on channels of television shows. 

Nervous with melancholy of lost faith 
on leather couch before three cameras, 
I answer questions on meaning of life 
with language of rocks polished by the sea 
on the late-night television talk show 
which beams atoms of my soul to your heart. 


Room Of Somethingness

Room Of Somethingness
© Surazeus
2025 03 20

In dreamless nothing of the star-black mind 
I search for meaning to invent with words 
which I breathe from gush of the water stream 
that shouts loud at my face with mocking faith 
as I lean close to catch the darting fish 
so I can roast it on the crackling flame. 

Still dreamless in the realm of mystery, 
I gather fearful flowers from lush fields 
to untangle regret from roots of herbs 
that cannot clear confusion of the fog 
with flash of sunlight through its veil of hope 
that pierces my heart with anguish of faith. 

Twisting spines of books from aggressive trees, 
while I somersault bitter sea of joy, 
I build expanding house with countless rooms 
with brooding horror of the stinging rain 
that mocks my attempt to shelter my heart 
from haunted normalcy of restless wind. 

Stuck in perpetual wakefulness of faith, 
delicate eyes still dissolving to rain, 
I move through unconfirmed shadows of time 
to hide in cavern of fake innocence 
in nowhere rampant with sorrow denied 
by urgent quietude of still-locked doors. 

To each adjacent room of somethingness, 
half-stuck inside books of weird fairy tales 
disgusting as slime of the seaside harbor, 
I progress backward through stark formulas 
designed to calculate abundant fear 
collapsing in the future we abhor. 

Tomorrow never comes from fog of war 
framed by basement window of the stained heart 
that runs with feral attitude of pride 
to catch moonbeams encased in angel wings 
offensive to the man who claims as his 
everything that exists on this mud world. 

I hear no clocks chime hour of broken hearts 
at sudden intervals of falling pears 
despite the radio signal no one hears 
crackling in tangled wires of my glass brain 
with zealous passion for social ideals 
consistent with how castle walls reverse. 

For every door I knock on with respect 
ten doors are locked against kind prejudice 
that disabuses how horizons shape 
fraught ontology of cathedral hymns 
which children assemble from puzzle shards 
so I can claim I know who I should be. 


Fields Of Silent Hope

Fields Of Silent Hope
© Surazeus
2025 03 20

Once I rise from gold casket of the sun, 
dazed by strange wisdom of the spinning Earth, 
I walk across the fractured-mirror sky 
to scatter teardrops on the conquering dead 
who took nothing of the world in their hands 
when they crumbled to dust with those they killed. 

The woman who swallows poisonous spiders 
shows me how to extract honey from trees 
so we can eat sweet sorrow of the world 
before great sprawling cities of steel towers 
disintegrate into computer code 
that mistranslates tales of our futile lives. 

Black cows graze in the valley of despair 
without aggressive interest in results 
of horses races men bet on to get rich 
while mourning for fall of their world empire 
at second coming of the hungry clown 
who steals gifts from Christmas trees at midnight. 

I see no star man floating in the sky, 
but I do see farmers, feet on the ground, 
working in boundless fields of silent hope, 
while the girl who keeps the sea in her heart 
looks for solutions among purple thistles 
while whistling The House of the Rising Sun. 

No one regrets true love more than she does, 
so she studies how moose and arctic fox 
live in the tundra of perpetual faith 
by measuring distance to half-frozen pool 
that resembles eye of the dinosaur 
who walked these lands millions of years ago. 

The child who speaks ancient language of sheep 
tells his mother about the laughing crow 
that hops on the freezing cast-iron stove 
before dawn sun can break another heart 
with silent absence of the nameless face 
which means the opposite of what she thinks. 

The gray-haired mother who still prays in church 
tells the tombstone where her son lies in dirt 
that she trusts in God to protect his life, 
and glares at the old man in the oak tree 
who tells her God has abandoned mankind, 
then wades into the lake to drown herself. 

The riderless horse with moon-silver eyes 
glides regally in streets of Washington 
to bring faceless ghost of the fallen king 
back from lush meadows of Elysium 
so he can save the republic at last 
from grasping hands of Ozymandias. 


Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Free In The Bitter Rain

Free In The Bitter Rain
© Surazeus
2025 03 19

I prowl inside dark mirror of lost time 
to shoot star words at bullseye of my eye 
while dancing the waltz with my loving gun 
who chooses how much angry I should be 
till I fall backward in the flowing stream 
and float while I sing in the bitter rain. 

When I call to my disquieting Muse 
to help me analyze this shocking time 
when traitors and thieves control government, 
she throws me dragon bone of faith to chew, 
so I carve holes to hollow out its core 
and play haunting flute in the bitter rain. 

I dip my hands in fountain of desire 
that nourishes eight billion human souls 
with stirring stories of women and men 
who work together to create free world 
where children of their bodies can live free 
by fighting tyrants in the bitter rain. 

I push against taut walls of the blank book 
to expand conscious awareness of truth 
so I can base fantasy of my mind 
on what is real in swirling of this world, 
perceivable as concepts formed by words, 
so I can fly free in the bitter rain. 

I tell my heart that we will always lose 
every person we love with selfless faith, 
and everything we create with our hands, 
so my heart cries out to the glowing cloud 
with the same brave prayer my ancestors prayed 
while they kneeled on fire in the bitter rain. 

Grand ruins of my castle in tall weeds 
waits mute for me to return from the sea 
and restore crumbling halls to former glory 
so we can gather in candle-lit court 
and sing enchanting hymns to nothingness 
while cannons blast us in the bitter rain. 

Still roaming labyrinth of genetic dreams 
where idols of all my ancestors stand, 
I gather pages of lost memories 
to write new epic of the human tale 
with moist prophet eyes of the weeping god 
whose healing tears flash in the bitter rain. 

At flash of lightning that cracks door of faith 
storm god Odin, wielding Spear of Gungnir, 
emerges from the crumbling hall of stone 
to remove mask of Jesus from his face, 
then lifts holy grail of wine and hails Truth, 
our Goddess who sings in the bitter rain. 


Young Hearts Swell

Young Hearts Swell
© Surazeus
2025 03 19

After he finishes his evening meal 
of fried chicken, chocolate cake, and grape juice, 
Zeus lounges on back porch in evening glow 
when the setting sun makes everything gold, 
and tells trees, "Thieves destroy the government 
so fearful rich men can control our minds." 

When rich men attempt to enslave the poor 
by destroying every social program 
that supports their efforts to work and thrive, 
the Freudian Fire of revolution burns 
hot within beating hearts of the oppressed, 
so they will unite to retake control. 

Squirrels chase each other up and down oaks, 
small flock of deer travel the neighborhood 
to eat spring-burgeoning grass of new hope, 
and robins attack reflections in glass, 
while Everyman lounging on his back porch 
considers how to save the land he loves. 

When golden daffodils of timeless faith 
bloom bright in yards of late-winter gray grass, 
our hearts rouse from drowsiness of despair 
at startling collapse of our nation-state, 
so he gazes up at clouds that gleam gold 
in the Maxfield Parrish sky of our hearts. 

Beneath wild clouds of arrogant respect, 
bold Cadmus strides across the horn-plowed field, 
and sows sharp teeth of dragons in moist soil 
to nurture generation of brave warriors 
whose young hearts swell with patriotic pride 
to fight well for Justice and Liberty. 

Across the jagged mountains of disdain 
clever Princess Parizade with gold eyes 
bears in her generous hands with ardent faith 
the Singing Tree that grows from hearts of those 
who search for love too far away from home, 
and gives it to the humble carpenter. 

When dawn light breaks the darkness of despair 
and Eos casts gold rays on jagged peaks, 
we rise from sleep in Temple of of Lost Tales 
to swim in swirling Lake of Synergy, 
then gather on the shore to fish for truth 
that sparkle silver as they dart in play. 

Beyond the moral tales of propaganda 
that trap our hearts with religious agenda, 
we search for beauty in the spinning world 
conjured by vision of the cosmic herald 
who builds from ruins of cruel tyranny 
new system of global democracy. 


Sand On The Beach

Sand On The Beach
© Surazeus
2025 03 19

The only comfort I feel in my bones 
while I lie prone on sunlit pebbled beach 
is knowing Death will crush me into sand 
with waves of time that flow across my soul, 
so I will arise and leave Innisfree 
with treasure I find in its glimmering core. 

My children scatter far across the world, 
blown by the winds of fate to distant lands, 
so I sit in lotus status of peace 
to float above the television tube 
and dream I sail the sea in fragile boat 
to find the sacred Isle of Avalon. 

Awake on iridescent sea of faith, 
with luminous phantom of wise insight 
designed by all my ancestors to guide me 
safe beyond the waste land of despair, 
I feel sad I must abandon strange land 
where we had lived for forty thousand years. 

My fears swell huge with each wild gust of wind 
that blows my boat across the shining sea 
till I snap awake in my present life 
two thousand years later in distant land 
where I record their journey toward the sky 
to find where the sun disappears each night. 

Browsing books of poetry in the store, 
near grand ivy league university 
which my ancestor signed the charter for, 
I search for stories of adversity 
recording heroic deeds of lost fools 
who teach oracle-writing in brick schools. 

My ancestors dream awake in my head 
so I record names and deeds of the dead, 
though too many vanish in silent wind 
before I can photograph their rich souls 
so now they wander in the Netherworld 
as faceless ghosts who call the cosmic herald. 

Returning to the sacred river vale 
where we first met ten thousand years ago, 
we talk about our plot to rule the world 
by hurling every monarch into Hell 
based on oracle of runes in the well 
that show us how to save democracy. 

My mother weaves my body from sunlight, 
yet leaves me memes that teach me to survive 
encoded in myths of stories she tells, 
then I search landscape of this world 
for soul mate to generate life from love 
before I dissolve to sand on the beach. 


Tuesday, March 18, 2025

River Boat Of Faith

River Boat Of Faith
© Surazeus
2025 03 18

Cramped against covers of the empty book, 
my heart swells with love for all human beings 
who find themselves alive in world of dreams, 
so I puncture my heart with straw of faith 
to drain nutritious juice of charity 
so all thirsty souls of the world may drink. 

Air full of expectations we inhale, 
Earth nurtures our frail bodies with mute care 
by weaving roots of trees into our bones 
and filling our veins with clear mountain streams 
so we can still savor fathomless joy 
from ache of passion to dance in the rain. 

Celestial breath of hope inspires my heart 
so earthly dust that composes my soul 
may sparkle brightly in the morning rain 
as we support Empyrean of the sky 
in realm where ideas of eternal forms 
provide patterns for matter to express. 

Awake before rays of light illustrate 
pearlescent reality of desire, 
I reach my hands to touch the stalwart tree 
and feel trustworthiness of its firm truth 
ordinate my heart in matrix of time 
with eerie beauty of the phantom moon. 

Hope slumbers deep in structure of my bones 
which swell with energy from rays of dawn, 
so I rise to express excessive wings 
with exercise that constrains ache of hope 
to walk sandy beach of arousing breeze 
between the rough cliff and the sparkling sea. 

Abundant passion of electric tunes 
extracts steel sorrow from corrupted mud 
with tremendous shyness of holy faith 
through impossible occasion of fate 
which counters terror with intelligence 
to purge despair from hearts in bland surprise. 

Indifferent focus of attentive fear 
spurs forth repeated statements of respect 
from shadow man on river boat of faith 
who glides toward crystal tower above trees 
where Death lurks in office of bitter wealth 
that poisons the thief with arrogant pride. 

Truth knocks the weak oppressor off the throne 
to free our nation from his tyranny 
while we transplant our hearts in fields of snow 
where apple trees of innocence may grow 
from wind-flapped pages of the empty book 
filled now with runes of blood my heart must write. 


Sound Of Falling Dirt

Sound Of Falling Dirt
© Surazeus
2025 03 18

Sublime anguish of grief in heart of stone 
magnifies memories of bitter regret 
in abrupt avalanche of absurd words 
that crush fragile temple of vanity 
with platitudes from sound of falling dirt 
vibrating landscape of false paradise. 

Dazzled with language in my heart of stone, 
which proliferates new realities, 
I transition to my alternate self 
reflected in reverse image of fear 
through attitude for sound of falling dirt, 
stunned by absence of the speaker we call. 

Too eager to embrace void of the mind 
with animistic hunger for weird truth, 
she adds zeroes to sum of fractured wealth 
to oblige heartlessness of capital 
without echoes from sound of falling dirt 
accrued through impossible leap of faith. 

Insistence on her spiritual register, 
burned in ceremony of speechless rage, 
he recounts moments surrounding her death 
to spare assessment of semantic birth 
without regard for sound of falling dirt 
that fills empty grave in void of his heart. 

Prayer despite reverence for the miracle 
blinds his heart to her foolish sacrifice 
with broken promise to never forgive, 
twisted by pleasure from absence of pain 
before advent at sound of falling dirt 
while ruminating on the righteous path. 

Misfortune of the secret litmus test 
discounts shocked feeling of still being alive 
though his brain dials electric spirit-trance 
for bold imminence of grim bravery 
from rectitude at sound of falling dirt 
with limited grace of intimate truth. 

Stuck in unforgiving mirror of fate 
under shadow of death in the light bulb, 
she calculates precondition for faith 
with token of remembrance she must steal 
to observe change at sound of falling dirt, 
contrived by network of opportune friends. 

Outward judgment based on divine pretense, 
tucked away in book of fictional gods, 
he calculates sales from self-righteousness 
enriching betrayal of social norms 
which abides beyond sound of falling dirt 
through revelation of translucent wings. 


Destroyers Of Our World

Destroyers Of Our World
© Surazeus
2025 03 18

The river always asks me to believe 
wild children in the apple groves are gods 
who tell each other oracles to prove 
murderous bullies will crown their sons kings 
and start religions on the holy creed 
that they are sent by God to save the world. 

I want to study how the rivers work, 
analyzing way that spread water flows 
from rainfall on mountains, winding round hills, 
swelling wider across lush wooded plains, 
and merging into vast swirl of the sea, 
then evaporates to rise as shining clouds. 

I contemplate how rivers on grass plains, 
signified by attention of our minds, 
function as metaphor that illustrates 
slow process of change we humans observe 
by noting growth and decay of constructs 
that we define through mystery of time. 

Adjusting gear in engine of my car, 
I drive with flow of cars through urban zone 
in gridded maze of name-signified streets, 
regulated by flashing traffic lights, 
from house to school to library to store 
and back again in endless routine loop. 

I sense in strict routine of daily life 
magic of that motivational spark 
in perpetual motion machine of faith 
generating more electrical hope 
which fuels aggressive progress of my plan 
to build foundation for family success. 

Celebrities personify our hopes 
that shine as outstanding stars in the game 
who achieve success through attentive force 
of heart-inspiring discipline in work 
that slowly builds in small increments 
grand palace of political respect. 

Yet all I build may vanish from the world 
in sudden flash of disastrous misfortune 
when opposing factions of social greed 
clash over right to exist and perform 
role of power to control cash resource 
when I wander lost in the twilight zone. 

Strange beauty of this empire we create 
through constructive functions of daily work 
inspires my heart to love our nation-state, 
though greedy oligarchs now seize control, 
so to oppose destroyers of our world 
we unite and march till they shoot us down. 


Monday, March 17, 2025

White Half-Sunk Boat

White Half-Sunk Boat
© Surazeus
2025 03 17

The pear on the porcelain plate desires 
soft caress of delicate leaves to feel 
passion of hundred million open doors 
that call the old man in white half-sunk boat 
who splashes river water to explain 
how generosity of love seals fate. 

He tells happy children in the schoolyard 
that he must go to the jungle of fear 
and fight the monsters of despairing greed 
where eyeless angels float among tall trees 
to calculate sentient grade of true love 
sold by the old man in white half-sunk boat. 

Stumbling over the invisible wall 
that forms the boundary line of arrogance 
between opposing nation-states of mind, 
he waits still in white half-sunk boat of faith 
for birds of paradise to claim gold keys 
so they can live in castles made of sand. 

Each book he steals from vast library hall, 
that describes maneuver tactics of war, 
he scatters in the muddy field of corn 
along with the long-forgotten brass horn 
that Jericho blew to defeat the king 
in revolution of white half-sunk boat. 

With crozier forged from dragon-crippling brass 
Patricius strides on snake-infested shore 
to fight death-eaters in the ring of stones 
who oppress people of the Emerald Isle 
which frees their bodies from their mind control 
so they gather by the river at dusk. 

Ignoring old man in white half-sunk boat 
who prophesies the falling of fake bombs, 
the priest twirls crozier in tense martial stance 
and fights fierce shaman of the serpent cult 
for who has right to live in paradise 
and eat fruit of the sacred knowledge tree. 

The pear on the table of puzzle shards 
shines suddenly bright with ten thousand eyes 
who all gaze at glass screen of timeless dreams 
which display faceless ghosts of politics 
as noble heroes who sacrificed life 
to save their families for the photograph. 

Torn photograph of his large family 
twitches in white half-sunk boat of regret 
so he limps slow with stoic agony 
to buy his eyes back from the jester-king 
then sits on back porch with stringless guitar 
to sing heart-breaking psalms of fortitude. 


Road Of Anywhere

Road Of Anywhere
© Surazeus
2025 03 17

Through half-deserted streets of Lonely Town 
I drive my car on road of anywhere 
to find cheap hotel of insidious hope 
where no one talks of Michelangelo 
for none would dare disturb the universe 
at sudden laughter of the bitter curse. 

With each decision to revise the truth, 
awake with dread on road of anywhere, 
I measure endless cycle of my days 
to fix God with the formulated phrase 
designed to prove that nothing can be real 
except anxiety I must not feel. 

Alone in murky fog of narrow streets, 
I search for Death on road of anywhere 
without expression of the crisis prayer 
that faceless people prefer to conceal 
before the prophet could dare to reveal 
corruption in the bitter hearts of men. 

I shall presume to face the shocking truth 
by dropping crumbs on road of anywhere 
with vain hope to expose dishonesty 
since I aspire to greatness of the mind 
when I stride with bright lantern of desire 
to play Prince Hamlet in the next world war. 

With purpose of meticulous concern 
from scheme to rename road of anywhere 
I start the revolutionary scene 
to swell bold progress of the changing tide 
where mermaids sing to fools with crippling pride 
that sweeps old institutions to the sea. 

The universe in nutshell of my heart 
that shimmers on long road of anywhere 
inspires my heart to play the generous king 
who rules the boundless space of sovereignty 
with overwhelming question no one asks 
yet listens to the blind nightingale sing. 

Attending moment of crisis with faith 
that lures me lost on road of anywhere, 
I bear the empty platter with my head 
through endless streets in city of the dead 
where faceless angels know my secret name 
though I refuse to play their ruthless game. 

To navigate vast cluttered field of dreams 
while I traverse weird road of anywhere 
I redesign ontology of truth 
with strict erasure of religious creed 
in clever constructure from tropic seed 
to build cathedral for atheist faith. 


Mask Of Ironic Jesus

Mask Of Ironic Jesus
© Surazeus
2025 03 17

While wrestling windy shadows of my mind 
that buzz electric moonlight through my body, 
I sing ethereal sorrow of the sea 
in heart-wrenching melodies of despair 
to highlight beauty of this eerie world 
that shimmers from each object I observe. 

Down distant winding Road of Anywhere 
I run toward stark horizon of desire 
to find beyond bleak nothingness of death 
some perfect meaning framed by creed of faith, 
but float on wings of Icarus I steal 
to wrestle windy shadows of my mind. 

Emerging from cracked dragon egg of fear 
quicker than huge cockroach along my table, 
with Phoenix wings too tangled in phone lines, 
demonic Grendel crouches in my heart, 
wearing golden mask of ironic Jesus 
to offer salvation from propaganda. 

So I shout random concepts in weird spells 
to divert acid attention of Death 
from hidden treasures of my pulsing soul 
which unravel curses of legal discourse 
congealing into propaganda code 
designed to hypnotize with truthful lies. 

Beneath the plum tree in Garden of Eden, 
where John Keats transcribed sweet enchanting song 
of the lonely nightingale with pure verse, 
I attend unruly ghoul of my heart 
to compose divine hymn that transcends truth, 
which expands, rather than converts, the mind. 

With each eccentric verse of sentient spark, 
I sing with mercurial voice of the wind, 
my mind swells glow of consciousness beyond 
bounds of acceptable theology 
to enclose zillions of worlds teeming life 
in unified matrix of the White Whole. 

Transforming from fish of mindless desire 
to observant human measuring objects 
so I can analyze chemical process 
of atoms that construct and destruct forms, 
I evolve from hairless ape to wise god 
who dreams entire bloom of the universe. 

With tight-wrought verses of conceptual truth, 
that wind coiled energy of psychic hope 
to power time-machine of mental flight, 
I record my quest to design world view 
that helps me navigate hostility 
in poems that map my brain ontology. 


Sunday, March 16, 2025

Until The Hour I Return

Until The Hour I Return
© Surazeus
2025 03 16

Until the hour I return from the Earth, 
breaking free from the egg of humanhood, 
my heart wears godless mask of singing stone 
with dramatic stubbornness of the tree 
that curls roots into body of my soul 
so I can give each soul their secret name. 

Until the hour I return from the sky, 
swirling wild from glow cloud of consciousness, 
my brain flashes clear ancient memories 
that my ancestors live life after life 
as we evolve from fish to mortal gods, 
too sure of our superiority. 

Until the hour I return from the stars, 
beaming atoms into chemical coils, 
my womb generates bold organic beings 
who sing words to each other in fruit trees 
as we transform cats to monkeys to humans 
swarming around the Earth eight million years. 

Until the hour I return from the sun, 
animating robotic frames of flesh 
with psychic energy of storm-fierce gods, 
my legs will perambulate spinning globe 
in curious exploration of our dreams 
which I record in periplus of faith. 

Until the hour I return from the sea, 
sailing straight toward the Isle of Avalon, 
my eyes perceive objective forms of matter 
to measure subjective ideas of patterns 
which I encode in language of wind song 
to sing grand epic of humanity. 

Until the hour I return from the hills, 
striving to achieve the highest existence, 
my breast inhales ethereal breath of light 
to join global choir of eight billion voices 
that echo in dark forest of our dreams 
as we transform Wasteland to Wonderland. 

Until the hour I return from the vales, 
hiking mountain range sea to shining sea, 
my body delights in forbidden pleasures 
which alternates through extreme joy and pain 
as we eat fruit and make love by the pool 
that reflects our faces in yet-born children. 

Until the hour I return from the grave, 
rising on Phoenix wings from flaming seed, 
my soul records ever-renewing quest 
pursued by immortal soul of my genes 
to map complete history of human life 
on time-animated atlas of Earth. 


Phoenix Wings Of Faith

Phoenix Wings Of Faith
© Surazeus
2025 03 16

When Midas flies his golden planes of greed 
in Twin Towers of business and government 
to destroy our global democracy, 
we rally round bright flag of Liberty 
that shines with stars of civil rights for all 
and march ten thousand miles in smoke of war. 

Our long march in the wilderness of fear 
seems, to our hopeful hearts of angry pain, 
to last forever in struggle for freedom, 
so our fight against tyranny seems lost, 
but if we stay together in our cause 
we will arrive in paradise at last. 

Each eighty years in history of mankind 
we fight against the tyrant in gold tower 
who imprisons Rapunzel with his greed, 
and, though we sometimes lose our noble fight, 
and must endure monarchs too many years, 
we always rise on Phoenix wings of faith. 

I write this dispatch from my prison cell, 
hands chained by oligarchs afraid of truth, 
with spirit of great leaders in the past 
who preached salvation of honest intent 
from sunless underworld of misery 
to encourage you with passion for freedom. 

Though our great institutions, that stood long 
as secure bulwark against poverty 
contrived from ignorance of fearful minds, 
have been destroyed by gang of oligarchs 
to constrain our hopes as factory slaves, 
we will build better government for all. 

We gather in libraries, full of books 
that recount epic tales of noble heroes 
fighting for freedom and justice for all, 
to keep their doors open for everyone 
to learn about true history of our state 
constructed by oligarchs on backs of slaves. 

Yet working people, who unite their hearts 
in unions to secure their civil rights 
for safe conditions and well-deserved wage, 
assemble round governing pyramid 
of social hierarchy where the rich lounge 
to support the leader who keeps them fed. 

Our new towers of business and government 
will rise from ruins of failed tyranny 
when cosmic herald of United Nations 
emerges strong on Phoenix wings of faith 
to secure equal rights for every soul 
who lives in Heaven of our spinning Earth. 


Twisted Black Boughs

Twisted Black Boughs
© Surazeus
2025 03 16

White apple blossoms on twisted black boughs 
confuse my heart with ancient memories 
that must have been experienced long ago 
by nameless ancestors who must be mine 
for all their memories program how I think, 
so I merge them all into who I am. 

Silver-sky light gleams in twisted black boughs 
of hungry trees that try to reach the sky 
with space-invading energy of hope 
that flashes wordless visions in my mind 
where I see people walking down the street 
to go somewhere I am not going to. 

I want to stop the woman with no face 
as we pass each other by empty church 
about the secret pleasures of her heart 
so words she speaks may mold mask for her face 
which I can signify with secret name 
she shares in whisper from hidden desire. 

While we sit together in sharp moonlight 
I gaze at her face for ten thousand years 
till every feature of her hidden heart 
emerges from shadow as spoken hope 
so now I see her face on everything, 
even the moon that reflects her true soul. 

I spend all day among the apple trees, 
twisted black boughs lit bright by the gold sun, 
tending each individual tree with care 
to ensure upmost production of fruits 
that softly explode from pores of my brain 
so I become the tree of timeless faith. 

Earth-bound with preference for the flowing stream 
that carries all sorrow to the mute sea, 
I till thick soil with energy of hope 
to cherish apple trees that grow from graves 
where my ancestors breathe the boundless sky 
so we can dance among twisted black boughs. 

Instead of worms feeding on my dead soul 
when my children bury me under trees 
I want cheerful larks on twisted black boughs 
to consume tattered fragments of my soul 
and carry me among the swirling clouds 
where I can become the freedom of flight. 

But I wake again from dull dream of death 
and sit with heavy heart of aging angst 
beneath shelter of my twisted black boughs 
till she brings hot apple pie from our home 
for us to eat in the cool evening glow, 
so I gaze at her strange face as she sings. 


Saturday, March 15, 2025

Never Take Us Home

Never Take Us Home
© Surazeus
2025 03 15

Though I could try to believe anything 
I prefer to measure reality 
with objective words I steal from the moon 
by speaking thoughts the trees breathe out as air 
which translates firmament of crystal eyes 
to furrowed fields where wheat sprouts from our skin. 

Strange stories we bake in memory bread 
contain sufficient formulas to cheat 
how fast we drive on lonely country roads 
that never take us home to that weird place 
where we fool ourselves we may still belong 
till radios scream conspiracy theories. 

Regret for how my arrows pierce my back 
blinds me to snide disdain of river stones 
who declare with loud laughter of dark waves 
that the world will end in both fire and ice 
though we tell the old television set 
why we want to drive to the waterfall. 

Shocked in candle-lit room of oblivion, 
I pretend I have never been awake 
enough to taste the phosphorescent bulb 
that floats above my castle built of sand 
despite waves of distraction that confuse 
people who think their dreams never come true. 

Yet I will climb the ladder to the sky 
so I can find palace of crystal eyes 
where God sits on fake throne of dragon skulls 
watching me bumble along my life path 
with no direction home beyond the bus 
till I fall asleep under apple boughs. 

I refuse to rub strangeness from my sight 
since I break the fragile plate of smeared ice 
by talking to the bashful river naiad 
whose star eyes magnify my mushroom mind 
with vital flecks of hungry apple seeds 
while I trace shadows of falling asleep. 

This land of river vales was never mine 
but I have always belonged to the land 
wherever I have walked ten thousand years 
so I possess the lonely apple tree 
to earn salvation of the baptized clown 
because I think I am the star-blind seer. 

I find no salvation of holy truth 
while walking signless road across the land 
to build the shining city on the hill 
that must be Camelot of glamored myths 
where my ancestors danced each summer eve 
to bind their bodies with red thread of fate. 


One With Sand Dunes

One With Sand Dunes
© Surazeus
2025 03 15

I become one with sand dunes by the sea 
to face the empire warship off the coast 
and chant with voice of wind to indicate 
cry of the heart that people hide in words 
for we are dream technicians of the mind 
as holy vessels of the star-born soul. 

We dance on sand dunes by the singing sea 
to weave our spirits in matrix of light 
so we can hold the bitter grief of loss 
that blossoms from cracks in our mirror hearts 
through resurrection of the holy word 
as messengers of hope the Earth preserves. 

Small particles of sand dunes form our souls 
through chemical flash of congealing thoughts 
that sparkle flares of soft electric words 
when mothers create our bodies from wind 
so we can dance and sing sorrow to joy 
as wingless angels of the spinning globe. 

Becoming one with sand dunes of the mind 
we build bridges to connect virtual worlds 
that shimmer in net of each human brain 
when we translate songs of eyeless seers 
to other languages our tongues express 
as shamans leaping through the multiverse. 

Awakening with sand dunes of dead stars, 
I stretch my body from Earth to the sky 
to feel the sun glow bright inside my heart 
till I become first flash of the big bang 
and remember flaring forth into suns 
as planets that nurture organic gods. 

Floating over sand dunes of divine breath, 
I feel the sun strike the bell of my soul 
which vibrates psychic spirit of the void 
which flows and swirls through waves of particles 
which spiral into planets blooming souls 
as humans giving each other god names. 

Assembling puzzle of sand dunes with words, 
we code cultural ideas into memes 
which replicate across landscapes of hope 
when people translate shaman songs of tropes 
to build Bridge of Remembrance between minds 
as jesters mock mad kings on windy heaths. 

We climb sand dunes where the moon meditates 
since ghosts are absence of the ones we love 
who haunt us with their voices in the wind 
revealing how we transform from the sea 
through beams of starlight in bipedal form 
as fish evolving into singing gods.