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Monday, January 17, 2022

Soul Cry Of The Lyre

Soul Cry Of The Lyre
© Surazeus
2022 01 17

To perform my neat and orderly life 
I dance on the razors edge of desire. 
Through every open door where the ghost sings 
I hear sweet anguish of butterfly wings. 
Because no laughing devil knows my fate 
I try to conjure selfless love from hate. 

If I ever escape the dusty moon 
I will appreciate your solitude. 
Though we stand before the church in sunlight 
clarity of vision veils second sight. 
I dance around bonfire of vanities 
to reforge all social conceptual keys. 

Rejection of wisdom is to accept 
confusing passion of chemical love. 
Alone on island of terrified birds, 
I hide my emotions in frigid words. 
Before glass window of infinite faith 
I ponder rain song of the eyeless wraith. 

Gold sunlight gleams on the ocean beach sand 
where all lovers vanish in winds of time. 
Accept this golden apple in my hand 
as gift of love that will make our hearts chime. 
Bones of my ancestors construct this land 
as wingless angel evolved from sea slime. 

Strange sunlight in trees cuts my heart in words 
so I give you every secret I find. 
I hear the sea wind blow one thousand miles 
so I follow the trail of tear-stained smiles. 
You run to me with joy to be alive 
so we explore the world from our dream cave. 

One hundred thousand years later I feel 
longing to find you again by the sea. 
One thousand lives later we meet again 
and marry when we kiss in the dawn rain. 
Tomorrow I will wake up by your side 
to savor our love where sorrows abide. 

The bride with seven stars in her hair 
dances slowly in grove of mango trees. 
The groom on white horse in mist of new hope 
reveals souls of stars in the telescope. 
The couple holds hands on the spinning world 
to generate soul of the cosmic herald. 

To perform sweet drama of our romance 
we dance on the razors edge of desire. 
We help each other transcend every chance 
by singing in harmony with the choir. 
We weave wings for our hearts with loving dance 
in tune with eerie soul cry of the lyre. 


Sunday, January 16, 2022

Blankness Of The World

Blankness Of The World
© Surazeus
2022 01 16

The blankness of the world fills me with hope 
that falling snow will not erase my name 
from silence of the story no one tells 
how when I fell out of the hungry sky 
the moonlight sliced my soul in eager wings 
so I will know what to say when we meet. 

The weirdness of the world fills me with dread 
that people sprouting from womb of the Earth 
will never know sweet pleasure of the truth 
that twists our hearts with agony of faith 
though we eat our breakfast of eggs and toast 
that crumble like mountains into the sea. 

The fullness of the world fills me with love 
that flowing rivers will translate my blood 
to whisper of clear ocean waves at dawn 
which might reveal the Light of Evermore 
still glowing in the book I try to read 
before the weeping of the trees in spring. 

The sadness of the world fills me with angst 
that all skeletons will crumble into dust 
after fifty million spins of the Earth 
through the measureless void of Nothing Real 
because my mind invents the world I see 
while I look for you in shadow of gloom. 

The vainness of the world fills me with pride 
that we evolve from sparkles of wet slime 
which blow from breath of hydrothermal vents 
to swim up rivers to the star-gold lake 
as we transform from fish to wingless angel 
when first mother sings our names at red dawn. 

The boldness of the world fills me with rage 
that blind indifferent nature does not care 
whether or not we fragile wingless angels 
regenerate our bodies through desire 
to overcome hostility of death 
as we embrace our lovers in the dark. 

The business of the world fills me with lust 
that urgent craftiness of my strong hands 
transforms the raw material of the Earth 
into sacred temples where women birth 
new bodies for our souls from tangled genes 
who build piston engines for time machines. 

The strangeness of the world fills me with dreams 
that Idea of God wakes up in my brain 
as vivid consciousness of timeless truth 
so I perceive this universe of atoms 
swerving in womb of the void to create 
this lush globe where we meet and grow in love. 


Saturday, January 15, 2022

Secret Of Her Fertile Heart

Secret Of Her Fertile Heart
© Surazeus
2022 01 15

The hidden secret of her fertile heart 
transforms the swirling chaos of strange light 
to pulsing passion of organic forms 
contained in fluctuating walls of hope 
that give me urgent strength to penetrate 
mute darkness of the hungry underworld. 

The flashing gust of passionate desire 
that fuels aggressive race of aching legs 
inspires my quest to caress sun-warm curves 
of radiant hills that teem with flaming flowers 
when I climb high to peak of jagged rock 
while hands clutch tangled vines of victory. 

The gasping cry of my inhaling breast 
encloses vast immensity of faith 
when I embrace her trembling in my arms 
because she kisses me with tender trust 
as we become one glow of flowing streams 
illumined bright by weeping stars of pain. 

The eerie loneness of my tense project 
swells bulging outward from my throbbing heart 
through spiral tautness of expressed constraint 
to seek warm darkness of sweet eyeless gloom 
so deep within her docile mystery 
that I forget strict boundaries of my name. 

So when she floats toward me on wings of light 
through piercing beams of dawn-red subtle flash 
my heart expresses urgent faith of love 
as I accept her sweet inviting smile 
to push beyond enclosing bounds of flesh 
and strike pure wisdom of my lightning deep. 

With twisting agony of silent night 
through holy vision of creative truth 
I swarm against cold blocking tide of death 
to pierce ice shield of cavernous despair 
when I assault lone citadel of faith 
at stark observance of conceptual spells. 

At mind-expanding burst of flushing juice 
when I bite sacred fruit from Tree of Life 
my heart flares forth from blind bang of delight 
to spiral coils of genes in neural net 
through spinning galaxies of dreaming cells 
that weave my brain from ancient memories. 

Amazed at pleasure of frantic desire 
which translates trembling angst to tender vows 
we hold each other on the river shore 
to savor beauty of the flowing stream 
reflecting mirror sparks of long-dead stars 
so we name each other with kissing eyes. 


Friday, January 14, 2022

Diamond Of His Heart

Diamond Of His Heart
© Surazeus
2022 01 14

The last time they meet in grove of fruit trees, 
flashing leaves blush with gold glow of their kiss. 
Though she waits for him in the rain all night 
she never doubts honesty of his love. 
Each time she sees him walking down the road 
she beams with joy in shadow of his soul. 

While hunting in dark woods with Sirius, 
Orion sees sunlight gleam on the hill. 
Through halo of gold light in rustling leaves 
Eos reaches her arm to pluck ripe pears. 
Orion gazes at beauty of Dawn, 
entranced by vision of her golden eyes. 

Approaching Eos shining on the hill, 
Orion offers diamond of his heart. 
Holding hands as they stroll in grove of trees, 
Orion and Eos share childhood tales. 
Embracing on beach sand in soft sea breeze, 
young lovers kiss and pledge eternal love. 

Annoyed Orion loves some other girl, 
Artemis shoots arrows at the swift hart. 
While searching for Eos with beaming smile, 
Orion sees Helius kiss her pink lips. 
Walking to rocky island on deep waves, 
Orion drinks wine in lonely despair. 

Mistaking Merope for girl he loves, 
Orion kisses her with aching hope. 
Whispering name of Eos in gold moonlight, 
Orion rapes Merope by the sea. 
Caressing his cheek when he wakes at dawn, 
Merope runs when her father appears. 

While stumbling in rain storm on rugged hill, 
Orion falls to his knees by dark cave. 
Artemis leads him to warm crackling fire 
and gives him nectar to revive his soul. 
Though Artemis confesses her desire, 
Orion thinks about Eos, his love. 

Lurking in gloomy shadows of the cave, 
Scorpius fumes that Artemis loves him not. 
Shouting that Artemis belongs to him, 
Scorpius stabs Orion in the heart. 
Clutching his chest, Orion stares in shock 
while Artemis weeps and kisses his lips. 

Picking ripe pears by the sun-gleaming sea, 
Eos calls Orion in morning mist. 
Lying alone on sand in midnight breeze, 
Eos waits for Orion to return. 
Gazing in diamond of his heart, Eos sees 
Orion and Sirius hunting among stars. 


Thursday, January 13, 2022

Happily In After Land

Happily In After Land
© Surazeus
2022 01 13

The bold infinity of word mirage 
reveals the strangest truth of dinosaurs 
how concepts encourage sadness of doom 
that threatens banishment of honest faith 
though we negotiate passion of love 
so we live happily in After Land. 

The great potential we must realize 
based on summer light on the windowsill 
provides the motivation we might need 
to talk about the desert with someone 
who cannot understand our vain complaint 
so we wander sadly in After Land. 

Even as you read these false prophecies 
composed by stranger howling in my breast 
the ache of hopeless anger imitates 
progressive pursuit of fraught happiness 
which may anticipate the atmosphere 
so we weep prettily in After Land. 

My door is always open to the wind 
that never lies about mind-melting heat 
when angels pass away beyond the night 
to prove this afternoon should be the time 
we hide our memories in the river rock 
so we chuckle madly in After Land. 

The places we should visit in the world 
could never welcome to the crowded park 
the likes of us created by the flounce 
of shocking treachery painted on signs 
if we follow erratic path past death 
so we sing honestly in After Land. 

You are the best friend I could ever have 
though we have never yet met face to face 
because the humid glamor of the school 
beckons our journey past the burnt-out star 
when we decide these lessons are for real 
so we study mutely in After Land. 

This valley that leads to long-ago days 
where strangers sit on chairs in poppy fields 
refuses to accept glory of war 
each dawn lost time sweeps us into the cave 
where wordless leaves discuss fortune we share 
so we wait naively in After Land. 

My eyes see everything you never say 
better than that winter when wind blows 
since children murmur secrets to the door 
where sunlight lingers on the signless road 
till sad Orpheus returns to the cave 
so we die happily in After Land. 


Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Radiance Of The Wraith

Radiance Of The Wraith
© Surazeus
2022 01 12

Not ever bursts electric flower of light 
too fast for speakers puzzling honest jokes 
though white wolf lingers soft in silver mist 
to study angst of harsh industrial blight 
in field of paradise where demon soaks 
still shocked at riddle of the analyst. 

Not often crushed by sneers of rolling stones 
beyond moss-covered ruins of paradise 
we wait in wilderness of signless roads 
for even preachers who read dragon bones 
to translate prophecies of bad advice 
though factory workers worship iron toads. 

Blank masks of street magicians tricking fools 
may mirror psychic tropes of tragic stage 
where standard characters can play their roles 
constructing new world view with logic tools 
described by words of blood smeared on the page 
with formulas that predict mental wholes. 

Through static crackling on black radios 
we hear strange message from the global king 
brought by the wingless angel in mute skies 
that lists each dead god in their cameos 
on social dramas where blind demons sing 
lost epic tales on tragic fate of spies. 

Not whether chess games can be won or lost 
through bellic strategies fierce seraph ploys 
in cunning plan to rule the spinning world 
reveals arcane expression of the ghost 
who mocks confusing roles for girls and boys 
defined by script erased by cosmic herald. 

Not always ardent based on tangling spells 
disguised as vines of grapes on lattice frames 
could we confess our love to faceless sprite 
who crawls at midnight from abysmal wells 
with shining eyes of hunger to eat names 
inadequate to bind our brains with right. 

Each human face I see in shadow play 
conceals strange thoughts I cannot hear in rain 
though I reach out my hand with eager hope 
to touch elusive truth no eyes display 
because I choose to bear heart-twisting pain 
which gives me courage of your love to cope. 

So many people on harsh road of fear 
collapse from horror of the fruitful way 
at shocking shatter of world view we faith 
though I wait stuck in empty house of here 
with nothing to exhale but wordless pray 
because I am now radiance of the wraith. 


Moon Owl I Never See

Moon Owl I Never See
© Surazeus
2022 01 12

Moon Owl I never see in the oak tree 
flies free to Heaven with my mortal soul 
that profiles ghastly chime of timeless truth 
too heavy for my heart to comprehend 
because I miss strange beauty of your eyes 
that hacks secure code of my naked mind. 

No learned astronomer in crowded class, 
who displays figures in columns of proofs, 
could chart measured progress of my weird fate 
in complex diagrams of cause and effect, 
yet I account for each act I perform 
to calculate fortune of silent stars. 

So as stark sunlight streams through stormy clouds 
I meditate in Stonehenge to perceive 
unsigned message of that immortal mind 
which never speaks in words I understand 
to become imminent presence of light 
deep in unfathomed thought of my frail brain. 

Unusual contours of vast desert lands 
where my ancestors traveled signless roads 
lure me to confront my violent desires 
to replicate my soul beyond my death 
though I explore wild range of jagged hills 
where I first see the horse run fast as wind. 

Sweet cataracts of singing rivers flash 
divine aloneness through my aching heart 
though I travel to far ends of the Earth 
one hundred thousand years in many lives 
to find where the sun is born from the sea 
where waves explain how my spirit was born. 

Two thousand generations of my genes 
from spirit of Helius reborn in flesh, 
I journey west from sea to shining sea, 
chasing Goddess of Light through apple groves 
till she embraces me in loving arms 
to generate new bodies for our souls. 

Thus always I return to the oak tree 
where gold-eyed owl of her committed love 
explains her secret of immortal life 
when she breathes spirit of truth in my heart 
and bids me rise from mud womb of the Earth 
so I can steal apples from the Death Snake. 

The ecstasy of treasure on the wind 
reveals strange desolation from world war, 
so I construct Heaven in the waste land 
disguised as castles built from dragon bones 
because I miss strange beauty of your eyes 
that weaves new wings for my demonic mind. 


Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Library Of The Weeping Star

Library Of The Weeping Star
© Surazeus
2022 01 11

The fraudulent flute that fractures my eyes 
returns from hollow classroom of the moon 
to teach my flapping arms the raven ways 
so when I walk in shadow of the dawn 
I may find princess of the broken jar 
mute in library of the weeping star. 

When Clementine falls in love with Pierrot 
she waits by red door of the theater 
to give him ripe orange on the silver tray 
forged from our broken hearts by Lucifer, 
but he rides away in black Limousine 
for candlelight dinner with Melusine. 

Gripping old photo of them by the lake, 
with words of his love he wrote with his blood, 
Clementine runs through forest of the snake 
to find his skeleton dancing in mud, 
but none would dare unmask haughty Pierrot 
who falls in love with indifferent Sappho. 

Searching for Guide Book to Garden of Hell, 
Clementine wanders maze of doorless homes 
where children draw heroes on temple wall 
while their parents play political games, 
competing for who gets to play the role 
composed by blind agents of Interpol. 

Though Lucifer tries to overthrow God 
through coup to abolish all monarchy, 
Jupiter outwits him with royal code 
to crush republican democracy, 
so we vote for president to play king 
when Grimgerde appears on stage to sing. 

Driving to work as banking analyst, 
while dressed in black skirt and white frilly blouse, 
Clementine brings gifts to library ghost 
who leads her to castle of Wenceslaus 
where Pierrot paints portrait of Onatah, 
Corn Maid who always rules America. 

When Clementine decides to love herself, 
forgetting her timeless love for Pierrot, 
her invisible tears conjure the elf 
who mocks every fool who plays the hero 
in social revolution of the mind 
that treasures divine spirit of the land. 

When Orpheus first sees Clementine smile 
at heart-breaking song he strums on the lyre, 
he stores data about her in the file 
while Melusine directs Elysian choir 
who sing riddles about evolving state 
how atoms define our chemical fate. 


Because We Are Lights

Because We Are Lights
© Surazeus
2022 01 11

Because I am fragile leaf of desire 
I will be blown into yard of your heart 
when you speak my name with wind of your breath 
so our bodies twine in tangles of love 
when we embrace sweet ecstasy of truth 
that we generate life from sparkling eyes. 

Whether looping roads of our separate lives 
provide random chances for us to meet 
in meadows, beaches, groves, or city streets, 
I look for your face in shadows of hope 
for dazzling beauty of your glowing soul 
blinds my eyes so I can see no one else. 

My heart beats faster when I see your eyes, 
so I run quick as horse along bright streams 
or higher than eagle over slow clouds 
so I can hold you in my arms again 
and walk by your side in sync with your steps 
so where we are becomes our paradise. 

Though death stalks our souls everywhere we go, 
hungry animals or forces of nature 
as monsters lurking in cities or fields, 
we stick together on the road of life 
to keep each other safe from violent harm 
so united we thrive in paradise. 

When you disappear from scope of my eyes 
so I cannot see if you are alive, 
my heart beats wilder than wings of the crow 
when I fly through shadows of aching fear 
till I find you plucking apples from trees, 
so I embrace you and caress your face. 

Though nature is indifferent to our love, 
caring not whether we will live or die, 
we are the only ones alive with hope, 
motivated by our passionate urge 
to transcend terrible horror of death 
by generating children from our minds. 

We know death will crush our bodies to dust 
but, while we wake alive with beating hearts 
together in dim shadows of the world, 
we will hold hands and walk the road of life 
to savor terrible beauty of love 
that surges through our bodies when we kiss. 

Blown by indifferent winds of careless fate, 
we hold each other in terrible storms 
and give each other fruit we find in Hell, 
for we make Heaven with each loving word 
we speak to guide each other in the dark 
because we are lights to the ones we love. 


Monday, January 10, 2022

Only Butterflies Understand

Only Butterflies Understand
© Surazeus
2022 01 10

When I pick the stones from the grains of wheat, 
awake with joy as wind in leaves of trees, 
I hear loud thoughts of piston engines purr 
though children vanish from the city streets, 
since only butterflies understand why 
I fall wingless into void of my eye. 

When Bearded Prophet from the desert cave 
wanders busy avenue between stores, 
wondering if he should marry Femme Fatale 
or Manic Pixie Dream Girl in the church, 
he pauses by the cracked telephone booth, 
still reluctant to become Superman. 

Even when Dracula shoots sad Pierrot 
with pistol of jealousy in his heart, 
the moon-faced clown with tattoo of one tear 
smiles with pure joy to see the children laugh 
as blood dribbles between his trembling lips 
in bitter loneliness of the glass moon. 

Yet Deathless Mother on the ocean beach 
conjures vicious destructive thunderstorm 
from howling abyss of her monstrous heart 
to smash giant oil rigs with haughty waves 
that send it tumbling to the sunless deep 
because I love weird beauty of her soul. 

Howling across the wild Atlantic waste, 
the cruel storm-god with lightning in his eyes 
smashes thousands of houses with fierce gales 
which crumble into smoking ruins of faith, 
and litters parking lots with mangled corpses 
of people once alive with vibrant hope. 

Among thousands of masks from lifeless souls, 
scattered on streets where cars rust in hot rain, 
I find the tragic face of Jupiter 
that fell to Earth when his soul was struck mute, 
so I wear it as my convenient face 
when I fish for dragons in Caspian Sea. 

When the crippled vampire of Gothamar 
loses the election for president, 
Lucifer leads lost refugees of war 
to live in empty stores of shopping malls 
where ghosts of preachers with blood-thirsty eyes 
sell tickets to Heaven to fearful fools. 

Though I am only eight million years old, 
I know secret names of horses they hide 
in clockwork orange of my conceptual heart, 
so I paint murals of ancestral gods 
on brick walls of abandoned factories 
for children I raise with my Femme Fatale. 


Sunday, January 9, 2022

Inspired By Word Ghosts

Inspired By Word Ghosts
© Surazeus
2022 01 09

Though shy Apollo lingers in sad rain 
while carving Beauty from white marble block, 
Medusa slithers from lake of hot muck, 
pregnant with shining spirit of his brain, 
to meditate in cave of mushroom ghosts 
about mankind driven by mental lusts. 

Entranced by flashing mystery of her eyes, 
Apollo chases Daphne in dark woods, 
but when she hides in tree of naked skies 
he embraces Medusa on grass beds 
to fill her hollow heart with writhing ghosts 
who follow his command as Lord of Hosts. 

Submerged in sloshing lake of her deep womb, 
Apollo struggles to escape her arms 
though stuck in vibrant swirling of her charms, 
so he stacks dragon skulls to build her tomb 
where she suckles their child, haunted by ghosts 
who dance drunk around lithe serpentine posts. 

Stark arrogance of nature surging thick 
expresses passion to generate souls 
through bodies writhing at the psychic trick 
which rules effective cause of social roles 
we choose to perform, inspired by word ghosts 
who emanate from hearts of archivists. 

When fierce Apollo wakes from lusting trance, 
shocked by electric kiss of piercing faith, 
he weaves bold name to embody dream wraith 
in rancid body born from random chance 
that programs world view accounting for ghosts 
who return from Heaven as agonists. 

Warm arms embracing torso of taut thew 
with potent vigor of productive hope, 
Medusa holds Apollo as sweet shrew, 
eager to teach their children how to cope 
with violence of indifferent forest ghosts 
reborn to work in banks as analysts. 

While wrestling serpent of his monstrous ache 
to penetrate heart of darkness she beams, 
Apollo lays Medusa by dark streams 
till their bodies pulse with orgasmic quake 
so brain bang fills her moist void with ghosts 
who populate lush vales of rugged coasts. 

Emerging from cold waters of Star Pond, 
Apollo names objects his eyes perceive 
as clear ideas only words can bind 
their hearts at hour Medusa will conceive, 
so we live and die on Earth as light ghosts 
in world myths composed by evangelists. 


Saturday, January 8, 2022

Heal The Psychic Scar

Heal The Psychic Scar
© Surazeus
2022 01 08

Reluctant sorrow of the bleeding moon 
reborn from black hole of the mortal mind 
reveals bold confidence of the blind clown 
who manipulates facts with sleight of hand 
designed to encode truth with social lies 
that radiates fractals to deceive our eyes. 

I sit with Grief in heat of weeping trees 
while books with photos of people I love 
crumble to ashes in my grasping hands 
though violet ache of transcendent seas 
showers my body with rain from clouds above 
through wracking charm of arrogant despair. 

The olive tree outside window of fear 
explodes white blossoms of selfish desire 
to prove the faceless ghost in open door 
calculates how to heal the psychic scar 
when I search for dream books in vast bazaar 
about the Lost Princess of Zathamar. 

On ruins of your empire I will build 
new nation of Zarathia who knows 
all romantic tales born in Buchenwald 
guide lovers to transcend orgasmic phase 
on quest to generate immortal soul 
in wingless angel who dreams the White Whole. 

Alone in Underworld of laughing skulls, 
Orpheus sings heart-breaking hymn of hope 
for ghost of absence haunting doorless halls 
since even wise men will believe the hype 
that civilized man, caught in stormy rains, 
can tame demonic spirit of our brains. 

The Japanese girl in short white-lace skirt, 
with face perfect as statue of Kore, 
who skates on fragile ice of global peace, 
drinks mocha with Orpheus in cafe 
to study prophecies on psychic chart 
drawn by Medea on the Golden Fleece. 

Though Jason never finds the Promised Land, 
since he abandoned on Island of Fools 
the Manic Pixie Dream Girl of the mind, 
he finds job building engines with thought tools 
to zoom around Earth in time-machine car 
in vain search for the road to Zathamar. 

Grief never sits with me by Lake of Dreams 
though I work as financial analyst 
in the bank tower, charging tax for streams 
where fairies singing in the timeless mist 
watch our tragic tales in star-gleaming jewels 
evolve in psychic waves of molecules. 


Backward On The Road Of Life

Backward On The Road Of Life
© Surazeus
2022 01 08

The dead walk backward on the road of life 
so we hide their faces in photographs 
to confuse their ghosts that haunt our routines 
with absence of their voices that explain 
what never happens in the wordless books 
which always fly away on broken wings. 

Ten thousand faces my ancestors wear 
appear as floating masks in mists of time 
when I walk through vast maze of city streets 
disguised as Cronus with raven-wing cape 
to chat with their skulls in church of dead gods 
and laugh at stark absurdity of death. 

While I play sad heart-breaking melodies 
with flute I carved from ancient dragon bone 
Lost Princess who loves everyone with joy 
joins me in grove of apple trees at dawn 
as spirit of the lake who gives me light 
with apple that awakens me from death. 

Across Zarathia, land of apple trees, 
I lead long wagon train of refugees 
who seek the Promised Land of fairy tales 
to build new paradise in the waste land 
but build another city by the lake 
where rich landowners control working poor. 

The Money Vampire in grey business suit 
traps the Lost Princess in marriage of hope 
who breeds new generation of fierce gods 
to fight crusade against the Queen of Death 
who gives me mask of Orpheus to wear 
so I stand on the street and play guitar. 

The tragic comedy of our sweet love 
still motivates our journey beyond death 
which generates life in children we love 
who bury our brains under apple trees 
so we can wake again as sparkling fruit 
that nurtures bodies of descendant souls. 

Returning from chthonian cave of dreams 
ten thousand years after my body died, 
I find the Garden of Eden now paved 
with asphalt as parking lot of the mall 
where citizens in land of liberty 
buy clothes sewn by slaves in dark factories. 

Instead of breaking chains of my free will 
through self-control of liberty in law 
I weave despair of death in angel wings 
to fly with Icarus above the world, 
hoping to transcend energy of nature, 
though I walk backward on the road of life. 

Friday, January 7, 2022

Timeless Well Of Love

Timeless Well Of Love
© Surazeus
2022 01 07

Though revelations dwell in panic state 
I will unlearn the names of all Wise Men 
so I can set dead stars above to flame 
where shadows fall from strange eternal eye 
that breeds cold gloom from flash of agony 
because I sing while candles hide lost tales. 

Familiar melody of grateful rain 
preserved in grapes that hang from tangled vines 
inspires grim silence of my aching hope 
when I remember shocking gift of life 
that burns too deep inside my hollow heart 
for me to hear lost tales in candle glow. 

If brutal softness of harsh arctic winds 
reveals warm depth my heart will seek in fear 
I may not pray for miracles of faith 
while standing steady against mocking blast 
when blizzard of words erase stars of truth 
too dimly lit by candles of my eyes. 

The land disdains to care about my hope 
for though I dwell firm on its curving shores 
my soul will never belong to its dream 
yet I dig hands in thick soil wet with rain 
to plant seeds of desire in tomb of rage 
so Tree of Life may grow from my foul heart. 

My eyes imagine beauty of this land 
so I tremble to caress flowing light 
through accurate grace of subtle desire 
that paints sweet vision of this teeming world 
on fractured walls of empty churches where 
blind ghosts draw maps of this strange land we love. 

Fraught scenes of strange behavior blind my eyes 
when I recall sad memories of mute rage 
from people fighting for their right to live 
free from control of people with sharp blades 
though we rebel against strict social rules 
designed to constrain passionate desire. 

Still locked in prison in the arctic waste, 
I breathe contemptuous winds of freezing fear 
that spark my heart to revolt against hate 
when I kneel in grass of Elysium 
to caress petals of the eglantine 
and dream about the woman I still love. 

Engaged in state of panic by the lake 
where eyeless demons lurk in murky flow, 
I tremble to caress eternal light 
that paralyzes my expanding heart, 
then sing transcendent beauty of this life 
in song that springs from timeless well of love. 


Thursday, January 6, 2022

Down In Aberdeen

Down In Aberdeen
© Surazeus
2022 01 06

When thoughts destroy church of the avant-garde 
with psychic canon of the howling ghost 
we gather weeping with the snarky pard 
who mocks principles we treasure the most, 
so I play the publicity machine 
while drinking whiskey down in Aberdeen. 

Weird paradox of the punk chanting hymns 
to praise the laureled king in castle court 
displays power game where the moonlight swims 
when poets compete in the bloody sport 
to prove they are the heir of Dickinson 
then dance with devils down in Aberdeen. 

Rejecting social agony of truth 
by adapting complex grammar of lies, 
we erase self of the messiah sleuth 
who shoots fire arrows at God in blank skies 
while strumming harp and singing by the moon 
after Sylvia cries down in Aberdeen. 

Though anodyne prophecies prove too real 
for sweet Minerva dancing by the lake 
I pluck eglantine to hide how I feel 
about star-eyed princess who is not fake 
when I lounge drinking mead on Stone of Scone 
at resurrection down in Aberdeen. 

Collecting garbage in anthology 
that presents brightest minds of Babylon, 
I synthesize code of theology 
which appropriates myths of Avalon 
in the new world order of Oregon 
founded in my tomb down in Aberdeen. 

Experimental spells of mental states, 
confounding sensual profit of the clown, 
produce aesthetic jokes of tragic fates 
that glitter bright as soul-stars on my crown, 
yet I design map of phenomenon 
so we evade death down in Aberdeen. 

Heuristic tool for radical assault 
against institutions of social power 
urge me to modernize conceptual fault 
through honey bee of my eternal flower 
so I play important role in the scene 
of rapping jesters down in Aberdeen. 

Strumming lyre of Hermes by sparkling pool 
as wingless angel in the pastoral masque, 
I imitate romance cant of the fool 
who pines for the princess behind the mask, 
then play Orpheus on the silver screen 
to lead singing ghosts down in Aberdeen. 


To Touch Your Why

To Touch Your Why
© Surazeus
2022 01 06

The last persimmon on the snow-white hill 
reveals strangeness of kaleidoscope eyes 
which cannot see the soul behind the face 
except when rain exposes silent pain 
so I walk backward on the signless road 
to find the person I love lost in time. 

The ancient hemlock by the asphalt road 
smiles sweetly at the smog-gray sky of fear 
while I wait by the twisted metal sign 
that says this road to old house where I live 
is the Dead End where even ghosts get lost 
so I paint your face on its silver back. 

The rancid cactus of the suffering clock 
draws circle of light around my cracked skull 
to translate color of history to rain 
so we can understand the alibi 
the wingless angel insists we accept 
because somehow we might still be alive. 

The sallow willow of the ghetto park 
watches homeless refugees of war play 
board games while bombs destroy religious halls 
though I wear mink-fur coat stained red with blood 
of tyrants we shoot when they crown themselves 
savior of the world on the evening news. 

The glowing hurricane of mindless bliss 
that nurtures purring brood of silver crows 
explains to me why death is absolute 
for every organism ever born 
on every planet in the universe 
so I sit in my river boat and laugh. 

The robust rhododendron of despair 
introduces me to strangers who know 
nothing about why the spider web sings 
confusing riddle about faceless kings 
who ignore augury of roaring planes 
to worship jellyfish god of the sea. 

The ardent apple tree in parking lots 
reveals the eyeless specter in the mist 
who waits outside my window before dawn 
to show me secret of the swirling snow 
so I sing love spells on the radio 
to people weeping as they drive to work. 

The errant eglantine of Avalon 
articulates strange shock of ecstasy 
when I find the person I love the most 
walking toward me in arrogant sunlight 
though empires fall at romance of the rose 
so I reach out my hand to touch your why. 


Wednesday, January 5, 2022

One Radio Wave

One Radio Wave
© Surazeus
2022 01 05

When my soul dissipates to nothingness 
I become every soul who ever lives 
on every planet in the universe 
since our brains connect on one radio wave. 
I strum on discordant harp of my heart 
to radiate love from spinning core of Earth. 

When I erase myself in Garden of Eden 
with pistol pressed against my heaving breast 
no wingless angel of electric wires 
will fly from Glow Cloud to rescue my soul. 
I dance in sorrow on the rainless plain 
to forge new body from relentless pain. 

When I spend glimmer of purpose with faith 
to transcend sorrow of my marvelous life 
on flapping wings of mirrored consciousness 
I wake with blaze of visionary scope. 
I breathe enormous passion of the sea 
while rising from thick mud with star-dream key. 

When I singe my wings on the burning bush 
while wrestling demon of my hungry heart 
I beam magnetic otherness of me 
beyond this fragile shell of mortal coils. 
I grasp ripe apple from the Tree of Life 
to feast in the temple where no god dwells. 

When I cleanse aggressive hate from my heart 
to shield my soul from arrows of despair 
I study mysterious word on wild water 
to comprehend my ancient erased self. 
I embrace with warm compassion of my arms 
uncanny beauty of your cosmic charms. 

When I paint faces of gods on glow clouds 
to waken dreaming creature of the sea 
I trap the fabled beast in flow of time 
to observe the world from tower of words. 
I sing every wounded song of the world 
on the bridge from which books of dreams are hurled. 

When I think thoughts before I play the role 
while dreaming true love on the summer hill 
with plangent singing of owls in the tree 
I beget my head with religious loins. 
I improvise idea of my soul 
threading through labyrinth of the White Whole. 

When I fall in love with fierce Ariadne, 
transforming from rage of the Minotaur, 
I wake as Theseus on cold city street, 
huddled in cold wind while strumming guitar. 
I follow Golden Way of honest truth 
while wearing glass mask of messiah sleuth. 


Strange Global Reality

Strange Global Reality
© Surazeus
2022 01 05

The arbitrary sorrow of the coast 
that lures me with sad siren song of hope 
obscures conceptual progress of desire 
for us to transcend anger of the boast 
though we are dangling at end of the rope 
and everything we love burns in wild fire. 

The rational anguish of ancient woods 
that calls me across the blank universe 
motivates me to design new world view 
that could replace the one that falls apart 
as multiple centers of gravity 
redefine strange global reality. 

The imperial agony of bare hills 
that diverts my attention from contempt 
exults in triumph of the global state 
prophesied by bloody runes in deep wells 
when the royal traitor begins attempt 
to defy divine dictates of blind fate. 

The mercurial assurance of the sea 
that animates ambition of my heart 
supports my program to communalize 
wandering tribes with ovation of the key 
outlined by formulas on the star chart 
to found one religion under blue skies. 

The whimsical comfort of mountain wind 
that twists my spirit with suffering of pain 
disassembles world model of my mind 
so I gaze at the world through pouring rain 
to see atomic essence of its being 
defined by beating of the angel wing. 

The erratic solace of the clear lake 
that ejects my body from halls of truth 
guides my wandering spirit in the waste land 
where every noble savior is a fake 
who distorts my faith in messiah sleuth 
by charging toll at gates to Wonderland. 

The capricious ache of the waterfall 
that programs how my brain perceives the world 
reflects my specter in the mirror mask 
worn by every president we elect 
who sends Parzival to kill every tyrant 
and free mankind from shackles of blind hate. 

The principled horror of empty sky 
that wakens me as vampire in the tomb 
crowns me as Orpheus to play his role 
leading refugees of war who ask why 
we must suffer since we exit the womb 
at soul birth from first flash of the White Whole. 


Tuesday, January 4, 2022

Old Shadow Book Of Why

Old Shadow Book Of Why
© Surazeus
2022 01 04

Writing tale of Lost Princess I adore 
with blood words in old shadow book of why, 
I question moral conclusions of laws 
that define etiquette in castle courts 
where angels stab each other in the back 
in competition to win heart of God. 

Assembling puzzle of global events 
recorded in old shadow book of why, 
I analyze power moves of politics 
fought between brothers in the game of thrones 
to calculate divine decrees of fate 
with fraught formulas of the social state. 

Wandering jester of the dead honey tree, 
whose eyes bleed in old shadow book of why, 
plays crystal flute on shore of the Black Sea, 
heart aching with desire for the Wolf Girl 
who hunts darting deer in Tellurian Wood 
far from stone tower where her mother weeps. 

Discussing events on the radio show, 
dissected from old shadow book of why, 
I preach salvation of the arcane spell 
carved on cement wall of the factory 
where sons of angels assemble new cars 
we drive on highways to the Promised Land. 

Riding the whirlwind of global events, 
encrypted in old shadow book of why, 
to fight for freedom from cruel monarchy, 
I walk bleak wind-swept plains of Scythia 
to find the pool from which the Volga springs 
where Zorya welcomes me home with a kiss. 

Constructing castle from skulls of dead gods 
with plans drawn in old shadow book of why, 
so I can keep my family safe from harm, 
I kneel before fane on Mount Helicon 
where skull of Orpheus prophesies how 
men and women choose each other to love. 

Solving weird riddles invented by Death 
that sizzle in old shadow book of why, 
I journey from Arabia to Guilin 
to follow highway my ancestors blazed 
on quest to find cave where Helius was born 
so I can understand my ancient soul. 

Running with horses on vast Scythian plain 
where trees sprout from old shadow book of why, 
I harness forward motion of desire 
to build global empire of fertile farms 
where children play free in paradise lost 
till they invent concept of God from fear. 


New King Of Everywhere

New King Of Everywhere
© Surazeus
2022 01 04

The absolute glow of the trembling Earth 
which emanates from effect of my heart 
originates conceptual thoughts I dream 
to witness primordial darkness of truth 
when you smile and gaze deep into my eyes 
so we contemplate hollowness of time. 

The horned owl in the oak of clacking skulls 
beams moonlight through cracked crystal of my heart 
so I hear song of the meteor who brings 
spirit of truth from the infinite void 
awake in humming diamond of my brain 
since I illuminate horror with words. 

The last vaudeville clown of America 
dances weeping in empty theater 
where ghosts of angels and demons reflect 
spirit of the age that dissolves in war 
as smoke from guns veils lost Garden of Eden 
till laughing skull of Hamlet reclaims truth. 

The fractured mirror in temple of masks 
distorts eternal truth words fail to prove 
so I climb the crooked sycamore tree 
and wait for messiah sleuth to see me 
but the girl in white dress of loyal love 
gives me the apple she stole from the snake. 

The eyeless face behind the curtain lace 
in upstairs bedroom of the ancient mansion 
watches me ride swift horse of Zathamar 
so I become the serpent in Star Lake 
who builds enormous towers of steel and glass 
to prove I am new King of Everywhere. 

The latest book of the World Testament 
that appears in temples of singing skulls 
records brave journey of Zarathia 
from vast Babylon to lush Oregon 
on quest for secret of eternal life 
hidden in dream code of genetic coils. 

The writhing umbrage of the Tree of Life 
conveys clairvoyant attitude of care 
on waves of molecules that weave timed space 
in walls of paradise that trap my mind 
too deep in labyrinth of Tellurian myths 
for me to remember my secret name. 

No phantoms dance in my mysterious mist 
so I disappear from all social platforms 
prepared to open window of my mind 
through aggressive chess play of liberty 
reluctant to allow freedom to reign 
at sudden cracking from the door of doom.