Time-Crooked Harp

Time-Crooked Harp
© Surazeus
2026 06 05

Confused by turpentine of psychic thoughts 
that mangle phonelines without alphabets, 
Phoebus extricates from pages of books 
conceptual phantoms of princes and priests 
who leech off farmers tending fields of wheat, 
then plays haunting tunes on time-crooked harp. 

Excited by oxygen of dream codes 
that divert attention of business clerks, 
Gandalf guards broken gate to paradise 
by stealing apples from the Tree of Life 
and selling them to pilgrims in black robes 
who seek salvation from the laughing skull. 

Disturbed by acetone of ardent faith 
that Angry Storm Man watches over us, 
Lucifer patrols maze of city streets 
with lamp of truth dispelling gloom of hope 
in garden of weeping idols to find 
last happy child of the apocalypse. 

Inspired by nitrogen of angel blood 
designed as ink for mad philosophers, 
Faunus chases shadow of his dead wife 
deep in Abbatia Sancti Michaelis 
where Sibyl lounging on gold velvet couch 
reveals prophecy of the Scarlet Horse. 

Unsettled by helium of holy light 
that beams from nuclear reactor of power, 
Belenus climbs steep Stairway of the Dead 
to marble Portal of the Zodiac 
where refugees of war beg for peach pies 
baked by the woman with ten thousand eyes. 

Delighted by krypton of stellar tones 
that radiate from galactic spheres of souls, 
Orion calculates romantic scale 
expanding scope of dream analysis 
we need to comprehend divinity 
inherent in programming of our brains. 

Troubled by chlorine of religious creeds 
that reframe moral values of cult clowns, 
Sagittarius masks his rebellious heart 
with stolid posture of obedience 
till he escapes glass walls of paradise 
and wanders lost to find Elysium. 

Electrified by neon of true love 
that emanates from every human heart, 
Percival strums gold lyre of Mercury 
and sings epic tale of the Measurer 
who maps whole history of humanity 
by weaving names in tapestry of fate.