[from Embers of Wonder and the Arc of Liberty]
Don't miss Pirouetting Spheres and wayward LOCHES -- 436 pages of profound dialectics--Divine Reflections and Transcendence--Celestial Consciousness
Euripedes foils Bacchus -- Xerxes' firing rage
By dawn as souvenirs of harvests' nest
Responding nature's whim, auroral hands
yet raiment chlamys-sky -- ethereal bands
guard Pasteur'd clusters, vein Demeter's wrest,
signs breathing amber - honey brazen zest
to blazon hieroglyphics, ancient sands,
moot ardent footfall airs Persephone lands
yet petrifying Theseus' staunch nest
-- bay, chamomile, sweet lavender, mused springing;
boughs hyssops, fennel, tree-of-tea, still - field,
by strata - depths -- to Amazon's heather - sheaths,
sky - paring fan: the grain and chaff dividing;
fields: altar sacred -- Taurus' stars -- revealed
Demeter's plow forms rays, primordial wreaths...
True aegis shields by law the ordered city;
Still: civilized citadel ... Heralds ... Sage,
the owls' uncanny aging -- unguent - sanctity,
bough'd olives, ceaseless scribe, auroral page ...
Pure Essence reigns undaunted, pre-Hellene:
greet Nike Marvels truly pre-Hellene;
pure Athene splendor, earthly fountains cure
to tenets steadfast, boning concepts pure ...
Magnetic turning Essence, crimson'd stir
from Chapter V: Teutonic Embers [Odin's Blazing Reed]
(also from the Arc of Liberty)
Grim grounded core foments decay -- man's shame--
Aegean Seas do writhe of crossing doom,
One cross expanse once caesar reigns called lame,
Appeasing guise, ephemeral jaded gloom;
Uncanny rapture melts to dimmest haze;
Foreboding sagas...Byzantine reflex;
Utopia's saged unblind: herbaceous phase;
Mare Magnum bathes sun's vital ombré decks,
Illuminating clouds -- enraptured arms
Move nature's raw perfumes, earth - guise, dark charms ...
Domes Fleur de Lys, celestial psalms
of Cyprus' streams dynamic, ...water glows
to falling looms rhapsodic, ...laurel - balms
Reprieving Arms, airs native: elk - musque - rose;
Hydraulic Nike chimes far spectral awe,
Refraining élan molting ground loose bones
disguised in rock where ambers heavens rise...
to Doric shrines that power thund'rous falls;
Olympia marvels . . . grand trails . . . alien - size,
Aegean grace soothes falling pure dove - calls,
Illuminescent sonic booms' snare - bleed -
dim Saga - Nike cosmic baying reed ...
of Constantinople's infernal foe...,
Bright Rays turn debacles to sombre sound;
As caesar, Sulleyman destroyed...! "lost" woe!
They gall'd all native, primal form all 'round;
Impassion'd Aegean Seas breathe marvels far
...nigh...hallow'd colisseums...verdant mead
-- like raiment...Parthenon gleams...Doric Star
Stills Marco Polo shawms, ...dynamic reed...
Mused strings, resiliating astral lead,
As zephyrs furling samite banners bright,
hydraulic Nike clocks timed stead
Dire satrapy impasse, Infernal Might...
Refraining echo -- Life begone must wail
the senses' dream -- to one clear purest sail...
Auroral bolts nocturnal thunder booms...
Olympia's Nike - Saga vestige zooms...
Don't miss Pirouetting Spheres and wayward LOCHES -- 436 pages of profound dialectics--Divine Reflections and Transcendence--Celestial Consciousness
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