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Thursday, April 23, 2026

Still Married To My Muse

Still Married To My Muse
© Surazeus
2026 04 23

Though forced to seek anew some fresher stamp 
presenting noble subject of my camp, 
I grant myself still married to my Muse 
who tempts me to adjudicate the news 
by daring to record destructive deeds 
through paintings that encode our psychic needs. 

My special nature, glorified by fate, 
traps me in curse to guard the jeweled gate 
against incursion proffered by lame thieves 
who limp from tomb where humble widow grieves 
from failed attempt to steal her loving eyes 
through vain expression hollow prayers devise. 

Since I alone in our vast universe 
am no one else but me, I purchase curse 
contrived to spoil alert equality 
against brave blessings from banality 
that we exchange by selling fantasies 
immured in confines of false dignities. 

Tongue-tied by praise of loyal characters, 
more precious to death than stale aquifers, 
I wield with bravery golden quill of truth 
to prove myself wise as unlettered sleuth 
when strangers clutching books of frantic tales 
ask me to solve problems cruel faith entails. 

In polished form of my soul-searing pen 
I measure tangled chaos love would win 
since urgent spirit animates my chord 
with solemn hymn no angel can afford, 
yet mortal pride of my too precious boast 
strands my broken heart on the storm-lashed coast. 

Full sail in ship of state my conscious steers, 
I will explore strange lands with my compeers 
who kneel astonished by clear mountain lake 
that their intelligence considers fake, 
enfeebled by familiar ghost of time 
who crowns as Emperor of Earth the mime. 

Clear charter of your worth excites my hope 
that Jupiter will teach me how to cope 
with undeserving richness of true love 
which flatters me with royal light above 
though I determine death erases all 
while we dance laughing in the waterfall. 

No better judgement could I render right 
than how we are acquainted with the night 
to prove we are as virtuous through faith 
as time-untwisting laughter of the wraith 
who recognizes power of my Muse 
whose weird spell may bomb of my heart defuse. 



Preserving Green Space

Preserving Green Space
© Surazeus
2026 04 23

Though hope creates sustainability 
from important design problem of faith, 
Carla walks quickly along city street 
past store fronts selling illusions of truth, 
ignoring crescent moon in the blue sky, 
intent on getting back to work on time. 

Scalable system for nationwide growth 
inspires Carla with passionate respect 
to outline methods for analysis 
which monitors biodiversity 
based on ascension of rickety stairs 
through frantic doors of cracked anxiety. 

Complex projects for preserving green space 
between old factories and shopping malls 
align with current operational modes 
which Carla plots for future management, 
designed to maximize living expense 
based on calculations of hunger strikes. 

Arranging data collected from fields 
about technical challenges of use, 
Carla tabulates random facts of fear 
which might untangle communal concerns 
for psychic erosion of social trust 
managed by flexible platforms of faith. 

Global datasets of spatialized scope, 
supplied by government warehouse of truth, 
provides Carla with conceptual regrets 
to shore against ruins of mental zones, 
constrained by progress of urban decay, 
where gangs of lost children prefer to play. 

Developing bold strategies to arrest 
regressive destruction of classic frames, 
Carla sketches ideal patterns of change 
that depict uncontrollable time flips 
with attentive focus on channeling 
forces of passion through productive law. 

Staring out office window of her heart 
at people walking up and down the street, 
Carla longs for ancient systems of life 
on communal farms along river shores 
where people first formed brave communities 
to help each other survive against death. 

Clutching bag full of documents and fears, 
Carla rides on the crowded city bus 
through the endless maze of buildings and parks, 
then drinks chamomile tea on futon couch 
and pets her kitten with alien eyes 
while she sketches fairies dancing in moonlight. 



Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Rubber Wheels Of Flight

Rubber Wheels Of Flight
© Surazeus
2026 04 22

Star angels seem to follow me around 
while I am driving on the busy road, 
adjusting speed of passionate desire 
to keep from hitting souls of other cars 
because we race endless circles of hope 
to catch the rainbow falling from the sky. 

My fingers dance on keyboard of weird spells 
to weave illusions that reflect the world 
of pulsing objects, formed of chemicals, 
that fool me into thinking I am God 
till Death erases my soul from the world, 
and all my atoms become other things. 

I watch the red light till it flashes green, 
then I assert my vain right to exist 
as metal shell on rubber wheels of flight, 
bright angel transformed to frail human being 
assigned strange name that honors long-dead god 
who drives with millions on vast maze of roads. 

Parking my car in garage of false fame, 
I walk with crowd of gods in human form 
to work all day in office of insight 
where I map multiverse of proxy worlds 
as half-aspects of one vast universe 
composing puzzle programmed from my dreams. 

Severe thought static, translating dream songs 
from tangled cantos of unique syntax 
trademarked by serpent of the well, expands 
scope of my conscious attention to facts 
encoded in moral tales of concern 
that invoke syndrome of unscheduled truth. 

Unlicensed lecture, expressed by shy god, 
shows me how to manage with legal jokes 
tense energy of our Daemonium 
who performs role with correspondent wit 
of Sign Giver who speaks with Inner Voice 
to guide my journey to the Promised Land. 

Excerpt of famished framework, glorified 
by solemn angel born from river stone, 
who appears to me as gleam of pure light, 
reveals entrapment trick they play on me 
till I escape high walls of paradise 
with one last apple full of fertile seeds. 

Through featured tropes of graphic interface 
I dare conceal strange program of my heart 
by which I forecast state of world affairs 
through clumsy assessment of bankrupt laws 
that helps me solve weird problem of my soul 
too beautiful for brokerage of death. 



Wise Spirit Of Anahita

Wise Spirit Of Anahita
© Surazeus
2026 04 22

Awake in gloaming of our endless day, 
with fierce impatience of the fractured moon, 
I measure wholeness of conceptual fields 
where hungry people tend vineyards of faith, 
and wait for Anahita to arrive 
with jar of water from her sacred pool. 

Her long black hair flowing in evening wind, 
Anahita walks among refugees 
from civil wars that destroyed family homes, 
and pours fresh water in cracked bowls of hope 
so they may drink sweet spirit of the Earth 
that resurrects their hearts from bleak despair. 

Assassins cloaked in blue suits of contempt 
surround brave goddess of water and health 
with evil intent to clamp her in chains 
and force her to kneel before Angra Mainyu 
in humble submission to his desire, 
but she defies his daevas with strong will. 

While Anahita fights daevas with courage, 
Ahura Mazda arrives on white horse, 
leading army of brave warriors with spears, 
they made from pines of Hara Berezaiti, 
who defend people of Assyria 
and protect wise Anahita from harm. 

Awake with wise spirit of Anahita, 
whose courage animates my heart with love, 
I fight destructive force of lies and hate, 
embodied by cruel tyrant in gold tower 
who tries to enslave people of the world 
as mindless workers in his factories. 

Her eyes gleaming bright yellow as topaz, 
Anahita stands on high ziggurat, 
wearing crown of Ishtar with humble pride 
and bearing wand of Inanna with love, 
to organize free peoples of the world 
law-bound in United Nations of Earth. 

Though Midas wrecks institutions of peace, 
and Pluto grasps at false rainbow of wealth, 
we join brave goddess of wisdom and truth 
to build Zarathia through Liberty 
from ruins of rapacious nation-states, 
ensuring justice and freedom for all. 

Though tyrants attempt with aggressive hate 
to destroy wise spirit of Anahita, 
collective energy of psychic power, 
that beams from heart of every soul on Earth, 
weaves matrix of our faith in shield of hope 
to support fertile goddess of our love. 



Purity Of Secret Names

Purity Of Secret Names
© Surazeus
2026 04 22

Elemental clarity of strange facts, 
based on physical solidness of flesh, 
renews psychic experience of the real 
combined with purity of secret names 
we utter as pure prayers of honest faith 
to conjure spirit of the best we are. 

Simple sentiment of our valid prayer 
denies significance buried in mud 
when name we utter with urgent concern 
conceals apprehension our brains adjust 
through imaginative bracketing of fate 
that sparks immanent transcendence of self. 

If my true self, expanding from my heart, 
coheres to object of essential being 
when I wear gold ring of reluctant faith, 
I flip attention of perceptive force 
with quaint discretion of the country road 
so objects I name vanish into dust. 

Through insistence of frantic ardency 
on primacy of the image, that mirrors 
real emotions seething in frames of thought, 
we package subjective feelings of hope 
till name and referent of truth collide, 
which conjures illusion we think is real. 

Whole operation of social control 
connotes feast of love we share in glass church 
so fluctuating time is overcome 
by fraught transfiguration we endure 
if the dead who have lost their sacred names 
dare return to the living without faith. 

If we return to lost wholeness of faith, 
contained within high walls of paradise, 
we may stain Garden of Eden with prayers 
while trapped by fortune within givenness 
of individual experience through spells 
that we record in books angels will burn. 

Entranced by mystic vision of my soul 
sparked awake by light of immortal stars, 
I stride jauntily over pulsing grass 
to mark scrupulous field of reference 
that maintains timeless meaning of our hearts 
fractured into particles of fake words. 

Since my brain is conduit for God Soul 
to express important concepts of truth, 
I scatter riddles of unshadowed stars 
when time folds dimensions of luckless fate 
through archaic technique of language games 
that free our bodies from religious faith. 



Madonna Of The Snows

Madonna Of The Snows
© Surazeus
2026 04 22

Sapphires in strong hands of Ithuriel 
reflect turquoise waters of mountain lake 
where specter of the rose blooms in his heart, 
so he kneels among frail Edelweiss blooms 
and drinks innocent spirit of the Earth 
while graceful swans float in crystalline light. 

Curving swan-necks of women in white robes 
arch with elegant form of timeless trees 
that drop apples and pears into their hands 
while their guardian angel Ithuriel 
protects their souls from wild wolves in dark woods, 
so they laugh and play with innocent grace. 

Bending among white Camellia shrubs, 
in satin dress that shimmers white as clouds, 
Titania caresses petals of hope 
and smiles with soft seductive gentleness 
at grim Ithuriel who wields sharp sword, 
yet ignores distraction of her blue eyes. 

Skin white as moonlight on smooth glacier ice, 
Titania twirls slow under willow tree 
so pearls against her breasts glitter with trust 
that Death, bedazzled by beauty of life, 
will pass her by beneath vast azure sky 
when she reaches her arm to pluck ripe pear. 

Beneath bright snow that gleams on river shore, 
Ithuriel finds ruby gem of love 
when heat of passion melts his heart with hope, 
so he retrieves bright jewel from hard Earth 
and offers it with humble reticence 
to Titania pretending to be shy. 

Dipping silver cup in cold fountain pool, 
Titania offers undine tears of lonely hope 
so grim Ithuriel accepts her gift 
and drinks chilly liquor of happiness 
while gazing at Madonna of the Snows 
whose fingers caress his hard blushing cheek. 

Flutter of Sphinx wings in cold gusting wind 
signifies approach, in wind-snapping cape, 
when Seraphita strides into the grove, 
silver tiara with seven sapphires 
radiating her royal authority, 
so Ithuriel bows before his wife. 

Retreating quickly to her small white boat, 
Titania rows across the turquoise lake 
while gazing with jealousy of false hope 
at vigorous guardian angel with sharp sword 
who steals adoring glance at graceful girl 
while bowing before Queen of Everywhere. 



Figures Of False Truth

Figures Of False Truth
© Surazeus
2026 04 22

Dire signs that adumbrate social collapse 
blind hearts of men with ciphers of star code 
which isolate bodies of frantic hope 
from our incognizant roses of wrath, 
so brave men pose as figures of false truth 
who wander stranded on the psychic moon. 

Intelligent inscriptions in dead books 
reveal bland prophecies of humble deeds 
performed by heroes with arrogant seeds 
designed to charge engines of farming trucks 
despite the broken light of autumn nights 
that scrambles riddles of national fates. 

If I imagine strangers on the street 
while pondering alone in doorless house, 
weird truth beats crow wings that excites the clown 
who conjures demons from the wood prayer bead 
which steals courtesy from soft hands of trees 
since world economy is based on bees. 

Savage powers at parties of the rich 
reclaim social machine of money games 
contrived by mad god of the River Thames 
who spends all day painting his picket fence 
to prove the universe of measured time 
derives from laughter of the selfless mime. 

White moon that gleams old words on river shore 
explains that every star I see in gloom, 
which scribes sacred maps on walls of my room, 
burned out long before my spirit was born, 
so when she rings the doorbell of my heart 
I buy one pear from her rickety cart. 

Unnoticed references that age each hour 
appear from swirling sea of honesty 
as brave leviathan with crystal key 
which opens huge door of my mental tower 
with unexpected passion that love feigns 
to order waves of thoughts in tangled lines. 

Since Death teaches me art of minstrelsy, 
I sing conceptual hymns of wounded souls 
who writhe as serpents in innocent wells, 
therefore men must learn art of chivalry 
from gallant Cave Bear, tamed by Socrates, 
so they can rule their empire colonies. 

Folk music from the vinyl record chinks 
with earnest passion of the suffering man 
about how life flows swift as hour-glass sand 
in vain attempt to counter social jinx 
cast with mute fear by figures of false truth 
who seek divine answers in mundane math. 



Tuesday, April 21, 2026

God Is Not The Other

God Is Not The Other
© Surazeus
2026 04 21

God is not the Other of anywhere, 
for God is the substance of everything 
that exists as light in the everywhere, 
so vibrant emanation of my soul 
radiates from cosmic core of the God Soul 
that composes essence of the White Whole. 

Inspired by quietness of God, I sing 
never-ending song of the human heart 
that channels conscious energy of stars 
in music water waves articulate 
to comprehend strange otherness of light 
that reflects our own face as Face of God. 

I study Otherness of the vast world 
and wonder if some super-mind perceives 
small temporary frame of fragile flesh 
that nurtures sparkling flame of conscious self 
who wakes inside my brain with flash of faith 
which makes me feel immortal at this hour. 

Awake in present body of my Self, 
I glow with countless memories of life 
all my ancestors lived from birth to birth 
while I evolve four hundred million years 
so immortal soul of my genes migrates 
as vibrant thread of conscious agency. 

God is reflection of my conscious soul 
which I project at surface of the world 
so I feel every atom in all things 
vibrate with pure celestial thought of light, 
yet I exist in bounds of time and space, 
contained within this temporary mind. 

I am this Other in my dreaming brain 
as separate entity of conscious thought 
who swims in swirling matrix sea of light 
till I dissolve to fragments of God Mind, 
unless I generate new life with you 
so we live as one soul beyond our death. 

Though I am stuck inside this frame of flesh, 
contained by limits of my space in time, 
my mind expands scope of attentive care 
to dream eternity of timeless joy, 
spruced by infinity of boundless flight, 
awake in every soul who ever lives. 

My mother tells me God is Everywhere, 
so I search for God in the Otherness 
where I sense bright atomic forms of things, 
till I find God inside my dreaming brain, 
then I play guitar at the city gate 
and sing endless tale of humanity. 



Vital Boundary Of Should

Vital Boundary Of Should
© Surazeus
2026 04 21

If I maintain my rendezvous with Death 
in fertile light of the ultimate good, 
I may inherit miraculous breath 
far across vital boundary of should, 
since I thrive through social obscurity 
with starlight in gloom of security. 

Preserved as nameless ghost in field of time, 
I spring unborn out of the Central Mind 
by which my character performs as mime 
for state ontology my brain designed 
in that uncertain hour before red dawn 
reveals forgotten spirit of the pawn. 

Blown by indifferent wind of careless fate, 
I wander toward familiar compound ghost 
of every person I meet by the gate 
who may still cherish me as Temple Host, 
assumed as faceless stranger without goal 
who waits for me to assign them their role. 

We tangle alien languages of faith 
in hybrid code of misunderstood truth 
that weaves new vision of the cosmic wraith 
who appoints mad fool as messiah sleuth 
with mission to revive the empire force 
which we derive from wyrd celestial source. 

I find my body on the distant shore, 
where I left robot of my secret self, 
to chronicle success of the Dream Store 
extracted from books of myth on the shelf 
composed by angel of the bloody wing 
who gives me Lyre of Mercury to sing. 

That bitter tastelessness of shadow fruit, 
which offers promise of divine insight, 
fools no one but cruel thief who dares to shoot 
in shameless bid to gain control of light 
which I oppose with motive to maintain 
productive peace where everyone may gain. 

Brave speech may purify strange dialect 
our tribe employs with calm alacrity, 
but through conceptual diction we project 
expanding scope of psychic ministry 
to weave all languages of Earth in one 
with the microphone rather than the gun. 

Still meditating in the Yellow Wood 
on which road of the future I will take, 
I map my vital boundary of should 
to ensure my story is real, not fake, 
so I stride boldly on the misty heath 
to keep my honest rendezvous with Death. 



Monday, April 20, 2026

Mystic Of The Absolute

Mystic Of The Absolute
© Surazeus
2026 04 20

Considered mystic of the absolute, 
shy Sylphus mounts the wingless horse of pain 
and flies with casual fear to Camelot 
where Daedalus invents mortgage machine 
to maintain neutral stance of spectral pride, 
silver with shadow of the deified. 

Supreme assurance of arrogant vote 
presents voyeur of our trademark concern 
for which Wonder Minion will play the bait 
that lures blind vampire to deserted barn 
where he is forced to milk the money cow 
while Gabriel operates the dream plow. 

Threshold of welfare, troubled to transform 
bodies of children to robots of faith, 
denies attempts to cross unvoltaged term 
we urban ghosts decide erases myth 
despite transference of the ego mask, 
tempted to drink sweet soma from the flask. 

Recording process of world social storm 
that shatters institutes of global peace, 
brave Sylphus visits temple without charm 
where grim Amaterasu names her price 
for selling sacred bronze mirror of souls 
in place of demon apples in cracked bowls. 

Insurance, designed to protect the mind 
from induced improvement jesters proclaim, 
liquidates stolen assets without brand 
controlling interest in the money game, 
yet Sylphus asks Aurora with star eyes 
if she will help him organize their spies. 

Increase of hybrid machines on the road 
defies logic contrived by weeping bards, 
so Sylphus proclaims Gospel of the Toad 
whose spiral-rainbow eyes of sacred chords 
hypnotize loyal followers of Zarth 
whom they proclaim is Emperor of Earth. 

Major placement of protein packages, 
as proxy partnership of brain perfume, 
reveals location of sad hostages 
who prefer to contest for global fame 
as if they think they can evade the curse 
that opens portals to the multiverse. 

Reborn as mystic of the absolute, 
lithe Sylphus surfs huge waves of social change 
while on world tour to play demonic flute 
with Artemis as quantum queen of grunge, 
then in the Green Room when the play is done 
they eat pineapple pizza of the gun. 



Angel Of Star Fire

Angel Of Star Fire
© Surazeus
2026 04 20

Startled awake by angel of star fire, 
who haunts our nation with wings of despair, 
I lounge on my back porch and play guitar 
while King Midas destroys America 
so he can crown himself king of the world, 
but he drowns when he tries to walk on water. 

Inspired by hymn from angel of star fire, 
we gather at the river of cracked skulls 
that floods city mazes with crystal tide 
which flows by the electric throne of Death 
where wood statue of God erupts in flames 
when Aaron casts serpent wand in the grass. 

Longing to fly with angel of star fire, 
I race bicycle down steep hill of hope 
with arms of faith outspread to imitate 
eagerness of Icarus to transcend 
mundane routines of daily rituals 
designed to maintain life through self-control. 

Eager to play with angel of star fire, 
I carve chess pieces from statues of gods 
which I found buried in mud of the well 
so we perform our roles on stage of power 
to protect Liberty in the High Tower 
where she sings with blue bird of bitterness. 

Trapped in life maze with angel of star fire, 
who sits on crystal throne of glowing clouds 
beneath binary rainbow of respect, 
I refract currency of my star soul 
through prism heart of her kaleidoscope 
when Minerva returns from Cave of Truth. 

Freed from prison by angel of star fire, 
I map whole history of our human race 
on time-animated atlas of Earth 
so we can navigate landscape of ghosts 
to build from ruins of America 
new land of justice called Zarathia. 

Deployed to war by angel of star fire, 
I wield Excalibur with clumsy grace, 
as warden who guards the garden of God, 
which I forged from stone in Cave of Illusions 
to lead world revolution of the caring 
against all tyrants and kings in glass towers. 

Reborn from fear as angel of star fire, 
I stand on ziggurat of Mother Ishtar 
to strum the lyre of Mercury with faith 
when she casts spell of brave enlightenment 
to prevent Midas from fracking the world, 
so we join United Nations of Earth. 




Willing River Of Love

Willing River Of Love
© Surazeus
2026 04 20

Crawling from coffin of his character, 
Delmore explains to Queen Elizabeth 
that he is Phoenix of the broken clock, 
reborn from jester of the hungry king 
with mission to rebuild castle of glass 
where time is the fire in which we learn. 

Searching for innocent ghost of Rimbaud 
lost in dark labyrinth of Gormenghast, 
Delmore steals lute from tomb of Romeo, 
then sings old French ballads to passing cars 
that cross the Brooklyn Bridge in bitter rain 
while Sinatra croons on the radio. 

Crouching behind shield of Achilles Christ 
to protect us from radiant nothingness, 
Delmore cries out to angels in the clouds 
who drop bombs on factories in Germany, 
then tames the undivided horse of faith 
so he can ride the last road back to Rome. 

Lounging in cobwebbed tomb of Baudelaire, 
Delmore tears pages from his bank account 
while catching stones people cast at his head 
so he can build new wall for paradise 
that traps obsessive ghost of his childhood 
in Garden of Eden where none can rest. 

Paralyzed by impotence of strange hymns, 
that twists his rigid heart with wordless wrath, 
Delmore writes unreadable spells of hope 
in cafe near post office of mad kings, 
asking Socrates for money of faith, 
enough to last till the apocalypse. 

Baptized clean in willing river of love, 
Delmore waits in Black Swan Pavilion 
for serene exaltation of the mind 
to liberate his body from disgust 
through brave emulation of divine lust, 
yet names the dead in the Kingdom of Snow. 

Directing grand choir of humanity 
to sing solemn hymns of empty dismay 
that celebrate victory of true love 
which shines in us before the morning hour 
so we become aloneness of fruit trees, 
Delmore plays instruments of ancient song. 

Walking calmly through day of April light 
to find his Self amid the blaze of change, 
Delmore writes new Book of Theodicy 
to prove with formula of tangled verse 
that goodness conquers evil every day, 
till his heart explodes during his swan song. 



Sunday, April 19, 2026

Forgetting My Own Face

Forgetting My Own Face
© Surazeus
2026 04 19

If I end up forgetting my own face, 
designed by passion my ancestors felt 
while walking bravely against wind of fear, 
I might wear mask of Cloud God to conceal 
amalgamated nothingness of self 
which angels document in clever jokes. 

Strolling in field of dandelion flowers, 
which explode in wishes of lonely souls, 
I ponder nothingness at end of time 
that traps me in this temporary body 
through which I aspire to climb mountain peaks 
as witness to transcendent state of mind. 

Because I know no fate of falling rain 
while hiding in ruins of paradise, 
slouched on huge stones that fell from fractured walls, 
I organize list of tasks to complete 
in mission to found empire on god skulls 
when death bequeaths weird secret of rebirth. 

Dark shadow looms above vast maze of streets 
where apes in suits play gods in wars of truth 
while I drive children from school to graveyards 
where they conduct random experiments 
to understand how trees bloom rich in Spring 
from coffin where the vampire god lies stiff. 

If I end up designing my new face 
from masks of gods long fallen in disgrace, 
I may be forced to wrestle before dawn 
eccentric angel of our nation-state 
who lives in mansion by polluted lake 
as castle capital of Avalon. 

True friendship chains our hearts with bitter faith 
we try to sell from market stalls of hope 
when butterfly god in her chrysalis 
hangs from rugged cross on hill of skulls 
which sprouts new limbs with apples of the sun 
so I sail river boat across the sea. 

In noble fight against the tyrant king 
we must not falter at the darkest hour 
for Justice needs our courage to transcend 
schemes of greed rich bankers promulgate 
in van attempt to control minds of men 
who wake from weird hypnotic trance he spelled. 

Ophelia finds lyre of Mercury 
rusting on tombstone of last troubadour 
whose spirit wakes again inside her brain 
so she ascends ziggurat of world fame 
to untwist political games of power 
with pungent beauty of the psychic flower. 



We Have Not Disappeared

We Have Not Disappeared
© Surazeus
2026 04 19

Though ocean waves erase our names from sand, 
and time dissolves our bodies into dust, 
our vibrant characters of baser hopes 
will live by fame in stories of old books 
far longer than great empires ever last, 
but even myths will dissipate in wind. 

I hear strange whistle from voice of the moon 
as distant echo in shadows of fate, 
so I help the blindfolded girl escape 
harsh judgement of villagers with stone hands 
shocked in rage that she dares defy their rules 
till we wander lost in waste land of fear. 

Clutching audible objects of true love 
that pulse with passion of seasonal hope, 
we break through shadow of wordless despair 
to fall in lush grass by the sparkling lake, 
amazed we managed to evade cruel death 
whose bitter rage growls softly after dusk. 

We lie beside soft whispered stream of hope 
where horses graze among old apple trees, 
and think about infinity through time 
that spirals forth in never-ending flow 
as vast gulf stretching everywhere we look, 
concerned we have not disappeared enough. 

Bright face in trickling eddies of starlight 
appears to watch us from abyss of faith, 
so we trade silent thoughts between our eyes 
which hang suspended from billowing clouds, 
but then weird light illuminates her face 
that gleams pure white as mask of bloodless ice. 

I sink in lightless gloom of misery 
and float on undulating waves of grass 
to dream I fly on horse of vanity 
away from roaring demon of my heart, 
then start awake in gold glow before dawn 
to see she transformed into a pond toad. 

Indulging happiness of lightning strikes, 
I search everywhere through indifferent woods 
to find dim shadow of her fragile soul 
for thirty years till memory of her face 
fades into flicker of leaves in sunlight 
as I stare at my own face in the pool. 

While eating bitter apple of my heart, 
I pause and stare at flicker of the lake 
and wonder how she vanished in the light, 
the blindfolded girl I rescued from death, 
then turn because I think I hear her voice 
as I transform into the eyeless crow. 



Universal Element Of Love

Universal Element Of Love
© Surazeus
2026 04 19

Through universal element of love 
mindless atoms swirl into galaxies 
that weave stars from aggressive fantasy, 
then nurture planets blooming ghosts of faith 
in spiral coil of genes which replicates 
new bodies that evolve from fish to god. 

Stuck in this body of frail mortal flesh, 
as long as chemicals of this lithe form 
function through interaction of bright sparks, 
I maintain forward motion through desire 
to find tree of knowledge with fruit of life 
which animates my conscious heart with love. 

Ninth Adam, son of Amen and Adad, 
breathes gusting air of hope to swell his soul, 
then stands on wobbling legs of frantic fear 
and stares at giant dragon with gold eyes 
that chews bodies of his tribe dripping blood, 
and howls with terrible rage of despair. 

Wrenching long brass wand with sharp jagged spikes, 
that cooled from lava flow at dawn of time, 
Ninth Adam rushes forward on fierce legs 
and batters face of the dragon with blows 
of brave aggression writhing from his heart 
till shrieking dragon stumbles to escape. 

Tracking bloody steps of the sharp-toothed beast, 
Ninth Adam finds in small cave by the lake 
wounded dragon cowering in stark fear, 
so he bashes its head with lightning strikes 
that crushes its skull into bloodied mush, 
till he lies exhausted under mute stars. 

Hauling wagon with dragon and its eggs, 
Ninth Adam enters gates of paradise 
where Inanna hosts rites of victory 
as Eloh roasts meat on high ziggurat 
that feeds five thousand people of the town 
who praise dragon-slayer with joyous hymns. 

Enrobed with leather cape from dragon skin, 
Ninth Adam presides on the judgment throne 
to reign as noble guard of paradise, 
while Ninshubur bears children of his seed, 
then trains his son Zababa to wield spear 
as hunter who slays dragons of the sea. 

"Through universal element of love, 
that fuels our bodies with star energy," 
Ninth Adam explains to his fierce-eyed son, 
"we fight evil dragons who eat our minds 
so we may generate bodies of flesh 
that preserve immortal soul of our hearts." 



When Pinocchio Wakes

When Pinocchio Wakes
© Surazeus
2026 04 19

When Pinocchio wakes from peaceful dreams 
of humming with cool breeze by sparkling lake, 
he stares up at the bearded face of God 
who sparks life in his heart with breath of love, 
then helps him stand and walk on clumsy feet 
so he ambulates through his own free will. 

Wandering in forest of tall pine trees 
that sway in dance from mountain winds of hope, 
Pinocchio caresses their rough bark 
with hands that sense mute spirit of their trunks, 
so he breathes deep and exhales vibrant tune, 
expressing visions of his mind in verse. 

Ascending mountain trail to gaping cave 
where faceless shadow of blind demon glows, 
Pinocchio touches large diamond gem, 
embedded in stone, resembling his eyes, 
where he sees first flash of the universe 
which animates his consciousness with love. 

"Though I feel trapped in container of flesh, 
attentive spirit of my conscious mind 
motivates forward motion through my will 
as I explore strange landscape of this world 
to discover origin of my being 
that pulses with atomic flash of light." 

Sitting still before bearded face of God 
by lake in cave of gems gleaming moonlight, 
Pinocchio asks, "Who am I, and how 
have I become alive with conscious hope? 
I feel bright jewel of immortal soul 
pulse with passion at the core of my being." 

Eyes blue as sapphires, stuck in cavern wall, 
gleam with joy as God looks in his eyes. 
"I am Geppetto, Craftsman who carves things 
from tree wood, like wagons, houses, and boats. 
I am frail mortal father of your soul 
for I sparked your life in womb of your mother." 

Reaching callused hand with attentive care, 
Geppetto caresses face of his son. 
"You are lithe mountain fox of joyful play, 
wounded by arrow of aggressive hate, 
so I extracted jewel of your heart 
to animate body of wood I made." 

Removing wood mask of his faceless soul, 
Geppetto reveals bright spirit of God. 
"If you wear person-skin you made too long 
you may forget true spirit of your heart, 
but your heart will always remember who 
you have been since first flash at dawn of time." 


Saturday, April 18, 2026

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. 



Absence Of Auspicious Love

Absence Of Auspicious Love
© Surazeus
2026 04 18

To buy dragon eggs at the grocery store, 
I carry magic box of blinking eyes, 
reluctant to transcend limits of thought 
as if I am the tragic money man 
who always stumbles on the muddy road 
though I stare at the ghost on the front porch. 

To dive in lake of pain before dawn light, 
I watch collapsing century resurge 
with monstrous tenderness of berry jam 
which teaches me importance of dream facts 
to avoid the trap of hiding regret 
for living blasphemously without pride. 

To ransack archives of personal taste, 
I dismiss surprises of history 
smeared with melancholy colors of hope 
which suit my vibrant life style on the town 
when I perform dramatic scenes to prove 
lessons of survival trick me with wealth. 

To relax in burning building of faith, 
I write strange thought formulas on chalk boards 
that describe how flowers explode from brains 
through social ideologies of power 
that divide us into factions of blind greed, 
impersonal as mountains that drink clouds. 

To analyze photographs of blurred ghosts, 
I stand beside the stop sign near the park 
and count how many chances I have missed 
in vain attempts to evade curse of fame 
that dogs my footsteps past the Promised Land 
till I attend inauguration balls. 

To formulate myself as almost real, 
I break into meaningless tomb of fear 
where skeleton of Jesus, cracked by fate, 
crumbles into gold dust of burned-out stars, 
so I stand trembling on the global stage 
and erase heroes from national myths. 

To join my neighbors at the barbecue, 
I untwist proverbs from roots of dead trees 
disguised as telephone lines of contempt 
that beam puzzling riddles to glowing screens 
reflecting faces in masks of dead gods 
whom we perform all day with reticence. 

To try ingenuous mode with bitter guile, 
I measure changing contours of the world 
where priests lead believers in maze of lies 
because in the end every person dies, 
for every fake belief in holy books 
blinds me to absence of auspicious love. 




She Almost Wonders If

She Almost Wonders If
© Surazeus
2026 04 18

She almost wonders if time is not real 
based on how water flows through veins of steel 
till silver raven, from dim vale she fears, 
explains strange magic of machinery gears, 
so lame girl walks downside up to her room 
where faceless fairies flicker in sad gloom. 

She never questions why stars glitter gold 
because she savors water that seems cold 
while reading romance tales in canny books 
that were sewn from butterfly wings by cooks 
who hide crystal keys in loaves of hot bread 
which she can use to resurrect the dead. 

She always asks each ghost their secret name 
because she wants to learn their psychic game 
which gives her social tools to fool the fools 
who gather in workshops to design tools 
that devils use to manipulate minds 
except for her who loves to feed shy hinds. 

She ever wanders garden of fruit trees 
in search of new words she can use to tease 
grim angel standing guard by jeweled gate 
whose sky-blue eyes require she defy fate, 
but when she climbs through window of her heart 
he flies away without celestial chart. 

She often leans in window of high tower 
to watch her favorite horse consume star flower, 
and dreams of racing swift beyond far hills 
to eat fresh apples and drink from clear rills, 
but wakes from daydream in gray mirror frame 
to smile and pretend she was not born lame. 

She mostly paints fierce dragon on ice peak 
whose rage is tamed by lame girl who is meek 
since she is doomed to inherit the Earth 
according to chart of her royal birth, 
so she limps quietly down narrow hall 
past portraits of ancestors on the wall. 

She nearly steps through unlocked door of hope 
in frantic mission to expand her scope 
by slipping free from castle of despair, 
but pauses halfway down steep winding stair 
to ponder abstract numbers of blind faith 
that help her mind perceive the eyeless wraith. 

She rarely thinks about mute nothingness 
while waiting on Bridge of Forgetfulness, 
so when Rapunzel gains her liberty 
she strums taut strings on lyre of Mercury 
and sings heart-wrenching psalms of bitter love 
while busking in strange towns where she may rove. 



Organize Electric Beams

Organize Electric Beams
© Surazeus
2026 04 18

While stealing apples from the Tree of Life 
in Garden of Eden where angels play, 
I hear tall woman with long flowing hair 
explain that, though the singers may change, 
the music goes on for thousands of years, 
so I lie on my back and stare at clouds. 

If I should disappear from dream of time 
my heart will expand its delicate wings 
and sing in harmony with flowing streams, 
articulating words with tongue of ice 
which conjures visions from rumble of thoughts 
so we become the truth our minds invent. 

When I am amniote at dawn of time 
I crawl through shallow stream of trickling light, 
imbibing water of cerulean skies, 
across sapphires, rubies, and emeralds, 
transforming form by climbing tall fruit trees, 
so now I stand and talk about my hope. 

Attentive flash of primal energy, 
that motivates my quest to find fresh fruit, 
fills empty nothing of my hungry mind 
when missing feature draws me to new state 
in constant motion of the absolute 
to seek truth that is absent from my heart. 

Fierce longing to remember taste of rain 
draws me to flashing flicker of the flame 
which I contain in ring of glowing stones 
because I know they are the fallen stars 
that teach me how to label what I see 
with words that blaze enlightenment of faith. 

Knee-deep in muddy water of the lake, 
I move through swirling lichen of desire 
to catch elusive fish of secret truth 
while hunting demon of excessive wrath 
that strikes from tangled limbs of tempting fruit 
so I snatch the writhing snake by its neck. 

When savage thirst for ecstasy of love 
swells huge from pulsing passion of my heart, 
I open wide my mouth with tongue of ice 
to speak in words of honest sentiment, 
but nothing more than howling wind of hope 
soars from cage of my soul on wings of light. 

Designed by brutal nature of the bog, 
I rise from sloshing arrogance of fear 
to build enormous towers of steel and glass 
so I can organize electric beams 
in computer nodes of the world wide web 
as I evolve from fish to Cyber God.