Yellow Wood Of Hope

Yellow Wood Of Hope
© Surazeus
2026 04 18

The crumbling stone bridge over the brown river, 
on which the statue of the poet stands, 
waits for my ghost to cross its wildered way, 
humming with gusts of arbitrary wind 
that scatters pages of verse from frail hands 
so our dreams dissolve into silent song. 

Delicate plum stone of my rotten heart, 
charred by sad flame of the arrogant lamp, 
contains original purpose of life 
designed by Raven Witch of Serpent Lake 
who brews honey wine in Cauldron of Faith 
while chanting hex of wisdom from the stars. 

Atomic light of pure love in my cells 
began to gleam before our world was born 
from frantic swirls of penitential lust 
that sparkles carbon molecules to bind 
aggressive force of hope with grim desire 
which aggregates proverbs in Book of Dreams. 

Startled awake by the wrinkle in time, 
that folds every universe of my mind 
in vibrant matrix through radio waves, 
I study flashing quarks in supple words 
preserved as letters writhing on white page 
that prove ten dimensions spiral through eggs. 

When I come to the road less traveled by, 
that has never appeared on any map 
drawn by Lone Wolf in monastery cave, 
I find pregnant woman by the blind oak 
who seems to know the secret of my name, 
so we walk in the yellow wood of hope. 

Alert in classroom full of changeling sprites, 
I teach how Mercator projection map 
provides the best navigation device 
for brave explorers who sail Seven Seas 
across ten dimensions of time and space 
to colonize the world with fantasies. 

My sensitive spirit of eager faith 
writhes with rancid bitterness of gloom 
when I transverse the endless realm of words 
with yearning to retrieve Diamond of Death 
by crossing threshold of the Otherworld 
that leaves me stranded in my first hometown. 

I drift in dreary reverie of fear 
to seek asylum in your weary heart 
where grief corrupts sagacious honesty 
through quaint cathexis in your faceless soul 
for which I leap to cross eternity 
as swirling shadow of atomic words.