Truth-Wounded Heart © Surazeus 2025 04 04 Ten thousand waves crash against island rocks, adjusting righteous order of door locks with broken masks of arrogant disdain that reflect spirits of humans in rain who give each other stones with secret names to understand the horse no devil tames. Ten thousand winds swirl trees on rugged hills, expanding consciousness of human wills with rich experience each ancestor lives, recorded in our brains, which pain retrieves to program how we analyze events, that threaten our lives, with bold confidence. Yet still rock of salvation bears my soul with nurturing passion through maternal role that provides support so I can stay strong when I get entangled by right and wrong in staged performance I am forced to play by earless Fate who mocks me when I pray. So I map web of roads that bind the Earth in social communes based on psychic worth we explicate with volatile contempt despite our request to remain exempt from patient attitude of honest Death who stalks me while I practice with deep breath. Thus I dispense with meaning spelled by words in mental tunes charming as songs of birds to focus your attention on this spell compiled by serpentine runes in the well that brims with water of the sacred Earth through revelation of our second birth. Awake this sultry Appalachian eve, I teach my truth-wounded heart how to grieve when nations collapse into civil war since some have nothing when others want more in legal game of theft employed with tricks since every soul must cross the bloody Styx. Sometimes I want to pack my memories and sail back east across the stormy seas with plan to return to my first homeland where apple trees bloom I tended by hand, but land of Scythia is under attack, so I lament I can never go back. Thus I remain in land where I was born, though our great Constitution has been torn, to build from ruins of America inclusive state of free Zarathia where everyone lives together in peace with the Holy Grail and the Golden Fleece.
Surazeus Astarius Συράζευς Αστάριος. Cartographer. Epic Poet. Hermead epic poem about Philosophers 126,680 lines of blank verse. http://tinyurl.com/AstarianScriptures
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Friday, April 4, 2025
Truth-Wounded Heart
Mindless Winds Of Hope
Mindless Winds Of Hope © Surazeus 2025 04 04 While I gaze at the shy flowers of Earth that bloom in the Georgia spring-evening heat, I want to cherish beauty of wild Nature and forget about the greed of mankind, ignoring how the man who runs the show is breaking all that we value as good. Though flowers that bloom from soil of the Earth may seem to be imperishable things that mimic stars exploding in the sky, I feel their fragile passion to survive hoary-frosted nights of unexpressed anguish that unwinds sorrow of the spiral whorl. Ten thousand years of flowers blooming bright measure rise and fall of empires men rule so I must cultivate with stoic care calm patience when our present empire falls, corrupted by greed of embittered men who grasp in vain to control rainbow beams. No loving care can force flowers to bloom for they spring naturally from soil of death to uncurl beauty hidden in their seeds as rich potential inherent within, so, when illusions of wealth crumble, we toil together in harsh fields of hope. We ride our ether-gliding ship of Earth to sail from Atlantis as towers fall crashing into swirled chaos of the sea with helpless faith in mindless winds of hope, inspired by tale of Aeneas in Rome to found new nation in the Promised Land. Though vision of America we built collapses into anarchy of greed when bitter oligarchs steal everything, we build from ruins of bold principles new nation of Zarathia that bears treasure of freedom and justice for all. Through wastes of hungriness and rancid blight we search for somewhere we can call our home, but, though we settle on some river shore for one or two generations of peace, we always flee, uprooted from our garden by refugees who drive us from our land. Despite resolute hearts of hungry faith that justice will be served with honest law, because we toil to extract from rich Earth wealth of success we deserve to accept, time crushes everything we build to ash, and throws our holy books into the trash.
Soul Of My Ancestor
Soul Of My Ancestor © Surazeus 2025 04 04 In my heart I feel soul of my ancestor wise Puritan Poet-Witch Anne Bradstreet who sailed the ocean blue in Sixteen Thirty to write magic spells in the misty woods where ghosts of Massachusetts natives sing eerie lamentations by moon-white ponds. While ancestors of mad seer Robert Lowell, descended from sister of Anne Bradstreet, stayed within the staid Boston Brahmin world, where he transformed into wild Caliban, my ancestors journeyed west to Idaho two hundred years in wagon trains of hope. Escaping gloomy streets of Boston maze, shrouded by grim Puritan moral code, my ancestors walked in the wilderness on signless roads toward hills of singing ghosts to find the Promised Land of Paradise that flows with milk and honey of hard work. Hawk-eyed pioneers, in tanned buckskin pants, warm coonskin caps, and beaded leather boots, clutched flintlock rifles and sharp tomahawks as they lead wagon trains through rolling hills far west across wind-swept prairies of prayers along the Oregon Trail of new faith. Three hundred years later in Palouse hills I walk in small university town at the far western edge of ancient Rome, and see Solaria Sun Spider Goddess transform to Tenth Muse of America Anne Bradstreet floating on Takoma peak. Extending hand of wisdom to my heart, Anne, dressed as Athena, gives me her quill of raven feather with blank book of dreams, and names me Surazeus Astarius to wake spirit of Ishtar in my heart so I write spells that chronicle the times. As member of her ancient tribe of poets, with Sir Philip Sydney, Edwin Robinson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Robert Lowell, I wake with spirit of our Mother Witch to strum the heart-strung lyre of Mercury and sing epic poem of philosophers. While Anne Bradstreet stands in long Sibyl robe, bearing Torch of Freedom and Book of Truth, I journey east from Oregon to find origin of my spirit in dark woods lit by pure vision of her loving eyes to chronicle rise of Zarathia.
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Church Of Money
Church Of Money © Surazeus 2025 04 03 Near the end of the way things always were, were gather our memories in suitcases and walk together on the signless road, then stop beside the river of the dead and build new homes from fantasy of Heaven without addresses on the map of fate. Loud voices among oaks, eager to prove goodness motivates people to live well in psychic harmony with birds and bees, alert the wary to the trickster scam thieves disguised as ministers of the church employ to trap our bodies on their farms. Enormous towers of glass windows sulk unamused at how the stock market falls in downward spiral of psychotic faith in glorious rightness of capital gains since everything we make with hungry hands increases in value till the end of time. Entranced on carousel of profit gained with each aggressive spin around desire, we blow the horn for our superior way that cracks the fragile walls of paradise which crumble into coins no one will trade while gambling for the future of mankind. Yet lonely trees on roadless hills of faith contrive to uncurl roots of righteousness that crack foundations of corporate clans so Church of Money collapses at dawn that leaves the faithful members of the cult struggling to survive in menial jobs. Heads sheltered from the blazing sun of greed, migrants who journeyed across the waste land pick fruits and vegetables in fields of song till secret agents based in Church of Money deport farm workers to gang-controlled towns that leaves grocery-store shelves empty of food. Blueprints drawn by the social architect hang ignored on public library walls now locked against young scholars eager to learn engineering design of piston engines which power our food-production machine till greed destroys its global operation. When new world order of the shining star replaces institutions of the past, every person in the chess game of power decides to swerve from divine-sanctioned fate and film in ruins of America weird reality show called Church of Money.
Ballet Of Falling Bombs
Ballet Of Falling Bombs © Surazeus 2025 04 03 While star-eyed Clementine, spirit afloat in surging tides of liquidated dreams, sings heart-enchanting elegies of faith for limbless children dancing in fire smoke, Death films her graceful dance on stage of wealth as she performs ballet of falling bombs. Blind Nonsense Devil lurking in her heart smirks at bromides of the priest in glass church dressed in suit of dollar bills stained with blood of children running without arms or legs in ruins of their shopping malls and schools to attend grand ballet of falling bombs. Orpheus wearing white surgical scrubs walks past the thousand open doors of pain where amputee children with cheerful smiles dance on phantom limbs with elegant grace to catch sweet tears that fountain from our eyes which they drink in ballet of falling bombs. Bearing pans of gold from the River Styx, that flows by the electric throne of God, Clementine plays banjo in gingham dress while wearing ruby size-nine dancing shoes on stage in the Grand Riviera Hotel where she performs ballet of falling bombs. Indecipherable rings of the God Tree, that record long history of human life, vibrate with music of concentric spheres when planets of the multiverse align through gears of fate that crown Clementine queen with message from ballet of falling bombs. Eternal night of faith inside her heart motivates her passion to create good by helping lonely people lost in space to find their home in the sheltering sky so she can live happily in her body while dancing with ballet of falling bombs. We spin with anguish of excessive life together on the carousel of hope by joining hands around the teeming globe to sing we are the world of naked souls still radiant with compassion for the truth demolished by ballet of falling bombs. Our souls once linked by memory of laughter stumble dazed through smoke of dismissive faith to plant our body-trees in the waste land of arrogant confidence in our Rightness that props our empire on gold skeletons who dance wild in ballet of falling bombs.
Giants Of Jotunland
Giants Of Jotunland © Surazeus 2025 04 03 Aggressive valence of unspoken words, which measures combining capacity of strict conceptual meanings we create, expands our world view through experience to incorporate universal truths within prehensive scope of fierce belief. Cracked ice of ideology impounds stray melodies of weird chaotic faith insistent on procedural sovereignty through passionate embrace of excess hope to prove this land is mine since dawn of time so you must pay to sell your apples here. Monarch of Greenland, crowned by circumstance of duty to guard heaven from jewel thieves, I stand on jagged mountain of my heart with staunch support of contract-binding trees to block invasion of digging machines bent on destruction of our wilderness. Ice-shielded mountains of vast Jotunheim protect rich mines of minerals in my heart from greedy claws of marketeering bankers who slaver over wealth in secret caves with hands that grasp resources from the Earth and give nothing back to valleys of lakes. When Manhattan dwarves in gray business suits stalk gushing rivers that sparkle with gems, the giant Jotun goddess Gertha calls dragons of protection with gold-fire wings to guard enclosed paradise of Greenland from cruel invasive species with steel hands. Annexed to empire of greedy King Midas, our misty island, rich with liberty of free spirits who guard our corn-gold land to support proud rebels with noble cause protecting soul of Onatah with love, gains freedom through calm justice of respect. Inspired by solemn hymns of liberty, freedom-loving giants of Jotunland join hands with people of Gothinia in Scythia, Gerthmania, and Scotia, to forge union as bold children of Odin, oath-bound to protect our homeland from tyrants. Since empires rise and fall in tides of time, and tyrants who proclaim themselves grand kings always fall from weakness of blinding greed, We the People in every fertile land establish United Nations of Earth to ensure freedom and justice for all.
Punk-Girl Fashion
Punk-Girl Fashion © Surazeus 2025 04 03 Tooting pipes in the deserted train station, Pan prances down pink fractured marble stairs in cluttered ruins of the Playboy mansion to proclaim with joy how much he admires her post-apocalyptic punk-girl fashion when Minerva twirls among broken chairs. Throwing wads of paper bills stamped by wisdom, that flutter in lobby of the Swiss Bank, Pan juggles skulls of nameless gods at random, then hurls them as grenades at money tank to organize opposing gangs in tandem for revolution challenging their rank. While star-eyed Minerva on the broken terrace scatters cryptocoins forged from hopeless dreams, she clandestinely eyes the phantom menace that lurks by mineral-rich Greenland streams, then twirls Wand of Zambor she swiped from Venus to overthrow tyrannical regimes. Spurred by divine call of the pristine desert that pulses blood of passion in her veins, Minerva plays violin at the concert, spiraled from volatile stock-market gains, till Pan considers program to invert right and wrong on scales of social domains. When King Midas takes America hostage with threats to make us slave for lower wage, frantic factories begin spewing garbage that traps Hidden Dragon in iron cage who breaks free with our votes so they can manage world revolution of the Golden Age. Riding his chrome horse with the psychic trigger, Pan defeats Midas in museum hall through clever diversion of gifted vigor calculated by writing on the wall to cripple the tyrant with legal rigor that we solve with the apple-inspired fall. Vowing with solemn words to not abandon citizens of Earth who seek equal rights in social system of Earth based on Heaven, Minerva trains men to be honest knights who respect cedar waxwing in the linden where great heroes have been reduced to sprites. To build peace on Earth with United Nations, in system where no tyrant could prevail, Pan supports Minerva with grand provisions when she bites the apple while stuck in jail which sparks world war of social revolutions till she reigns in Hell with the Holy Grail.
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Stuck In Social Delusion
Stuck In Social Delusion © Surazeus 2025 04 02 Based on deified eyeness of my tongue, my brain reprograms theology puzzles when clouds revoke my license to express precise concepts trapped in caves of confusion visible to death who wants to possess roots of angel wings tangled in my bosom. Long after fervor of the bell has rung dire warnings, priests of despair still embezzle secret funds earmarked for game to suppress rebellious souls stuck in social delusion they were born with racial right to access sacred treasure concealed by the blind boatswain. Urged by special certification code to hire the most unqualified programmer, the crippled captain who runs ship of state dismisses allegations of fake passion with wretched laughter of ocean-storm faith required by law to arrest the department. Strange signal crackling from the fractured road excites Clementine who vamps with stage glamor for the soldier who returns in the crate despite close attention to rates of fashion designed to imitate the social wraith who runs the new agency of bombardment. Overhead costs of the systemized game contract standard assortment of wild horses judged adequate for purpose of rebirth to obtain axioms of spiritual guidance contrary to maxims cruel angels corrupt before return of the vindictive tyrant. Overview of immoral epigram that stamps blood seals for literary sources presents dictum invented to prove worth we claim as right preserved by legal stridence to oppose theft that progressives disrupt when terror motivates the brave aspirant. Though message we receive over the wire distorts conceptual patterns of dream static, we synthesize all disparate world views in huge holy book once stolen from Eden so we can calculate through prophecy everything that will happen in world history. Shocked by harmony of our global choir concerning equality and fair justice, I build protective temple for my Muse who asks me to record her tale of Odin as our grand champion of democracy whose daughter teaches me poetic mystery.
In The Great Unknown
In The Great Unknown © Surazeus 2025 04 02 When the Phoenix of my heart spreads fire wings and rises from nest of the Burning Bush, I follow her flight to the Great Unknown on signless road that leads us anywhere till I stand weeping by the Lake of Dreams where First Mother first taught me how to sing. My mother keeps the secrets of my heart that I have never revealed to myself which I now scatter as seeds on the ground so all my memories bloom in daffodils that children pick where they play in the field where skulls of gods have crumbled into dirt. These fragments of forgotten history, which I find strewn on hard cathedral floor when its rose window was shattered by bombs, contain dramatic scenes of psychic fate that I assemble in collage of tropes to create new world view from random hopes. Concentric circles of haphazard thoughts that drift in sparkling mist of wordless dread radiate from center of the spinning Earth so I become my most essential self while standing in blue twilight by the lake to feel subtle glint of stars pierce my heart. Down lengthening path of my endless life toward far horizon of my shadowed mind I always walk with steady pace of fear to gather courage in jewels of light in which I see first flash from dawn of time that luminates strange landscape of my heart. Inviolate flower of the Burning Bush transforms despair of hot volcano gas to glorious garden of profuse respect since I am surrogate mind for the Earth inspired to breathe brave spirit of the sky that cultivates nascent power of faith. Emerging from grim shadow of soft grass, she grabs my hand with tremulous concern and asks if I know where the Phoenix flies, so I give her the last pear of my heart, then write weird verse in book of fairy tales while the nightingale sings to us of death. Living together in the Great Unknown where the Phoenix nests in the Burning Bush, we cultivate pure energy of love that swells in juicy pears on twisted limbs, then cuddle in the boat of our romance and watch the sun rise from shimmer of the lake.
King Of Worthless Things
King Of Worthless Things © Surazeus 2025 04 02 Because he plays the king of worthless things, robins leave torn pages from holy books on the metal table in the back yard where the mango queen takes selfies with Death to show her followers around the world that she values every person on Earth. Because the Earth is spinning in his head, he gives the dead voices they never had when they were struggling each day to survive by assembling puzzles of castle towers on the asphalt parking lot of the mall where angels keep falling on the tar roof. Because the sky disrespects him with jokes about his strength and courage to fight back, he races with the football down the field to imitate the hunter with the pig that he steals from the village by the lake, and wins through goalposts of his village gate. Because he loves the woman on the horse, he gathers apples in his two-wheeled cart and pushes it along the sparkling stream to sell them at the crowded market place for copper coins that he can use to buy new brass cauldron for his wife to cook stew. Because he seeks to know the origin of commerce basic to civilized life, he digs chunks of minerals from the hill cave and sells them to the man on the brick hill who laughs that his dirt holds nothing worthwhile, so he lies hungry on the temple steps. Because he wants to buy the fast sports car, he sits all day in the small cubicle and enters numbers on the spreadsheet file to calculate progress from the stone age that man has gained the past five thousand years, then drinks beer in the bar to watch football. Because he uses dangerous formulas based on mathematics of divine fate to build the piston engine of the greed, he wears the polished mask of Daedalus on Halloween to trick Fortune and Death in bargain with the Devil to be rich. Because he steals the crown of thorns from Christ in vain attempt to avoid judgment day, he tries to deny in the court of fate that he is still the king of worthless things though he keeps trying to sell fake angel wings as Orpheus takes him to his cage in Hell.
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Deep State Of Faith
Deep State Of Faith © Surazeus 2025 04 01 If I start with the bang of perfect thought to leap across the multiverse of souls in sly attempt of honest quietude to evade trick of charged vicissitude, I might lose sight of soul-expanding goals for which my pioneer ancestors fought. Emerging hopeful from deep state of faith with holy book I dredge from swamp of lies, I preach salvation of aggressive force achieved by mining star-wealth from the source in heart of Greenland where government spies search for treasure cave of the diamond wraith. To me alone on high Takoma peak the diamond wraith as Goddess Liberty appears with hundred million eyes of truth to crown me her faithful messiah sleuth commissioned to support democracy which I adjust with constructive critique. This mask of free will, which I wear with pride, reflects bright spirit of your secret heart, designed to magnify your special soul so every person creates their own role to play on global stage of the dream chart based on the template our beliefs provide. Attuned to zeitgeist of our national mind that radiates psychic energy of hope, we stir from lethargy of social trust with passionate anguish to adjust course of our progress that we steer to cope with stoic courage of hearts realigned. Against destructive greed of tyranny we band in noble squad of common folk with fierce intent of honest patriots to defend moral values of robots who transcend prejudice to become woke as heroes in our questing company. We will defeat dictatorship of greed through inclusion of everyone who sings special tunes for cultural diversity which nurtures progress built on equity together binding power of our wings through witness on the hill of Gilead. When mad Baal oppresses our free state, Elijah arrives in chariot of fire to chase his thieves from temple of our faith so we reclaim our nation from vile wrath to welcome every soul in our world choir who gather with hope outside the locked gate.
Horse Of Texas Wind
Horse Of Texas Wind © Surazeus 2025 04 01 When wild wind of Texas becomes the horse who brings me apple of eternity, I learn to flow with her elegant grace as she revives pure spirit of the plains where hearts of our ancestors enrich soil from which our children spring to dance and sing. Bones of our ancestors molded from milk form rugged landscape of our aching hearts where ghosts of dinosaurs with rainbow feathers still wander streets of quiet country towns to guide me as I ride sturdy-framed bike past fragile homes where faceless people pray. Contemplating mystery of the Glow Cloud, I lean against trunk of the apple tree to wonder why I feel so far from home since I sit still at center of my heart while my mind crosses timeless distances to shore of the lake where my soul was born. I live in time-wound spinning of the Earth, connected to each age of human life by reading stories written long ago that weave tapestry of dramatic scenes where I play role of bold protagonist in grand narrative of spiritual growth. With confident voice of the mockingbird, that dwells in heaven of the pecan tree, I sing about the nameless souls of Earth who flicker by on timeless stage of hope as transient flames of conscious innocence so I will remember them till I die. Before I cry beneath the broken branch, lone wanderer detached on signless road far from ancestral homeland of Star Lake, the horse of Texas wind teaches me how to repair the butterfly wings of faith so I can dance with the graceful tornado. Only the raven remembers the poem I scribble on the frosted window pane to translate light of the arrogant moon with subtle nuance of challenging tricks in words that humans invent in despair to communicate thoughts they fear to speak. Riding my bike in the small country town, I transform into horse of Texas wind so I can sing about beauty of love with abstract metaphor of fallen angels who disappear in flash of light on water when I realize I can fly with word wings.
You Are The Ocean
You Are The Ocean © Surazeus 2025 04 01 "You are the ocean in this drop of water," Rumi exclaims with radiant voice of joy, then twirls around on broad shore of the ocean with arms spread out in anguish of desire to extend the sacred wings of Icarus so he can fly above this world of sorrow. Dark waves of solemn search for information scatter detritus of dreams on pale sand that gleam in silent horror of the dawn while I assemble fragments of lost visions to puzzle new world view of global truth which accounts for every person alive. One hundred million poems on cherry leaves swirl around my head on the ocean beach, so I catch one with cobra-quick attention to feel dream of one human on this Earth glow brightly in my eyes with starry faith that we are raindrop tears of one star wraith. So many nameless people on this globe pulse passionately with anguish of hope to live free from oppression of blind greed, trapped in selfish dramas of other people as each soul gropes blindly in maze of fear to find safe haven in words of our voices. I hear soft whisper of their secret voices emanate from thousands of road-bound cities that teem with vibrant energy of hope at dining room tables, riding arenas, library cubicles, and coffee shops, heart-enchanting choir of angelic souls. World spider of our hearts weaves tapestry of stories from experiences we hide to build vast edifice of psychic tropes for literary scaffold which supports courageous ascension to stage of life where we join choir of strange humanity. Though I almost hesitate to express narrative demand of theology to edit tales of suffering we endure, I boldly adjudicate suppressed cases describing crimes of facetious contempt people commit against people each day. Drowning in vast virtual reality of wordless ocean waves formed from our tears, we photograph each other with weird poems to prove we are the ocean in the drop of water that reflects our emptiness in which we fall forever without words.
Social Temple Of Trust
Social Temple Of Trust © Surazeus 2025 04 01 When sudden violent April storms uproot ancient trees of tradition, we assemble with reverent awe round old Tree of Knowledge, then deconstruct strange ideology to comprehend how our observant minds assemble concepts in puzzle of truth. Our minds will synchretize random events to analyze strict flow of consequence by noting temporal cause of each effect to formulate doctrines of social force based on ontology of human nature we design to explain history of life. Old institutions that preserve our state through eighty years of social transformation collapse from aggressive attacks of greed enforced by the treasonous gang of thieves that twists laws so they can enslave the people to work for increase of their bank accounts. Once they reduce protective services, devised to secure our daily routine with productive methods for sustenance, they plan to suppress rebellious intent and channel energy of private dreams by building empire on our subdued backs. With fierce resolution of abused souls, tricked by thieves who steal invaluable faith in secure operations of our state, we take up arms against this sea of troubles and fight to stem destructive tides of hate hurled from their bitterness against our hope. Abandoned in the wilderness of fear by social contract of effective trust between the people and our government, we declare new state of justice for all based on equal rights we share with each soul through solidarity of honest hearts. Though we are battered by wild winds of change that upends our productive way of life, we straighten focus of attentive care to support each other in fight for rights assumed inalienable for every soul as we restore social temple of trust. Planting in soil of our national heart the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, we revive Garden of Eden in Hell with treasure of wisdom in apple seeds to build from ruins of America new free republic of Zarathia.
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