'Extirpation ov Duplicity' Knight ov Wands A burning emblem emblazoned upon bleak horizon Passes before perdition Passion empowers and poisons Death enshrouds him An ingress is denied; the postern thus opens Ineluctable denouement upends the self Forlorn, fatalistic..fathomless Justice represents his encumbrances Unleashed reveries inflicts the past anew As causation unto ultimate effect Lamentation's limitation litigated in liturgy The Star inaugurates him Auspicious aspiration attainment attuned Resolved against reservation An ever-burning wish The Knight ov Swords is underneath him Insensitivity begets directness Obfuscating nothing The blade is sheathed Nine Wands abaft him The despise ov an age is met with gleeful countenance Visceral heart-wounds close Defensive posture, sans bitter voice The Chariot is ahead ov him His victory through blood and blade And the feast upon dead ego Ov the heaps ov the slain transgressors The Sun reversed aside Conquering; yet still unappeased Thus the sojourn progresses Four Pentacles reversed beside Go thine own way; he hath released thee To take thine own course Four Wands aside Jubilant in the sweet release Bound no longer Queen ov Pentacles beside The utmost contentment ov utmost beloved Mandatory; compassion thus invoked ----------------------- 'Gelasius I et Chaucer' Forsaken The ode unto love and lust Forbidden Spoken dreams crisscrossing Stars The abolisher of the Wolf's day And the admirer of romancing birds Misplaced meanings Claudius! Spare the lions their hunger And give them Valentine ad interim Dead be the Heart Barbed be the Arrow Stark be the Lesson Of Misery --------------------------------------- 'Celestial Division, Entropic Fixation' By dawn One strode the plains in rue The evening sun soon beckoned And there were two But fear ov eternal night Washed over the second And the one was left to dusk. The next dawn Brought the second ov the second suit And again the one was two..but alas, Upon the wind came wings of the third But unity was not with this trinity-- The three were disharmonized, And the discord brought the one To the knell And this one Shod in discord, shot with dismay Was bereft before the blossoming Perilous, all paths before Deceit; discouragement; disheartenment; A single apple fell from the tree And split into five distinct parts.. Yet the seeds were unclear. --------------------------- 'Hili kar...imeam sumug...' Hili kar..imeam sumug.. 'It is better to have loved and lost, than to never have loved at all...' Yet were my heart never revealed to thee Were my soul never laid bare before thy Grace I could cast us unto separate currents and pass before Time But alas! even as words have released ye My being cannot let go.. With every passing thought ov you, Sheshmen With every distant memory, Sheshmen I can barely breathe without thinking Ov you.. Dismay... The tortured waves crash upon shattered sands Never to recover Dissonant, their disturbed cycles Will never regain their rhythm Behold a weeping sky And a mourning sun And a dying day.. These things are my monument The monolith ov my despair Stands stout above the fields ov the past Whispers drowned before the wailing winds.. Sheshmen Pain and pleasure were the peaks and valleys The mindscape ov our united realm Shone with the might ov aeons Yet in one weak moment This one cast all aside, All but lament... Sheshmen.. ------------------ 'An unfond farvel' Time passes Time passed Time hath past Prodigal were the days and nights Depredated hours..squandered passions And attained were no advancements Perspicacity arose from emotional inanition And stones before the chasm Cast perilously without echo Resound through emptiness Barren be made the mindscape Utmost admiration resolved as pity For feeble and frail spirit Inundating A soundless vortex roars inexorably And past is apart from pain and pleasure Lament long deceased Assuming such ever was Corroding Before imagined touch Thus shalt no more wither wistfully Thus hath joy wept, and sorrow laughed Thus to be cast aside, and return the favor Farvel And rejoice Quietus bars the gateways Solace holds the keys Madness drapes the curtain Banishment cares not for these And accursed be memory thus excluded But tears caress not the weeping earth Cacophonous grinning intent--we are past Delusions, and no more ------------- 'Imhul-gimir' Coruscating infinite dreams The throne above exalts pillars defiant And abstains Purveying distraught will in penultimate devastating waves The land is shifted The sky shrieks, Martu! Shugurra invocation made manifest Before hail and howling winds And obfuscated horizon The earth shatters in breaking crests In burning lividity As the sky howls, Ulu! Nocturnal reaching barriers Upon congregated abhorrent flock And we laugh Before myriad timeless Space Gorias shines eternal moonfire As the sky pleads, Satium! Transmigration-seeking solar souls Impale the breach of madness And caress lament Uruk dreaming suspended Undulates with impartial passion As the sky laments, Sisa! Imhul--devesting obfuscated sanctum Beneath opulent infinities Under cosmic causality Undone ----------------------------------- 'Magus (Threefold Entropic Sphere)' Planetary seals Before geometric image, I appeal O! For cosmos to portend My imagined end How the yarrow howls in my hands A final straw cast beneath the shifting sands I am no longer bound Interstellar gates The sounding of the drums of dissoluted hate Are these floodwaters in truth receding? For figments have perused of that impeding Procedural, methodologically meandering means, Pathways that to unattained ascetism do lead Imperator, conqueror of my ill-luminated madness Alongside dying winds, I cry Vacant supplication The Earth below trembles wide in anticipation And Heaven's maw, expansive and bleak Spews forth awakening--overwhelming me O! To have felt; to have been felt-- And to lament in turn; whence hath the prowess lept? Ah, the stars sigh alongside my collapse And passing embrace of Chaos bear my rekindled prayer Scaled angel-arms amidst discordant trumpets.. Shriek in silent catastrophe! A myriad thought-pattern, nerve-impulses Like cigarette smoke in rising methods Eviscerated by conscious thought The new moon laughs at this Earthbound one And like crystal the patterns flow '*pyon?*' (...and if you have no idea what the subject means, go watch FLCL. Now. No, not after you read this. Now.) So there I was, at the end of a tunnel...or the beginning...or maybe just a break in the tunnel, or something. There was light, I think, or maybe not. It was kinda warm, but in a cold way, like ramen in a blizzard, or hot fudge before a root canal. I probably stepped in bat guano, and I think I might've heard a train overhead. Or a Viking raiding party. I remember that when I awoke there was a strange smell on the air. Like bliss burning before blades brandished like bad alliteration. Or belgian waffles. A little bit of both, I guess. And buttered sauteed shitake mushrooms? Shikiko is so weird, but so cool. Being surprised at being asleep and erego being awake, I thought it wise to don my shades of spiffiness and continue on whatever twisted binge of a path I'd been put on for the day. But the glasses were too dark for the moonless night, and I very ungracefully left a clear impression of my face in the bank of the small ravine. I figured it would be best to remain here, but the rain in my ear wasn't getting any quieter with its cold wet rantings. So I hummed, the rain slapping the sandstone above me driving a fierce rhythm. And then I recognized the unfamiliar white light from the horizon, like a hurricane, without the wind and sound, and with more fury. Much more fury. We're talkin', Greek mythology Fury. The last thing I really remember, was something in my eye. -------------- 'Desert Trail' The sun arise--it speaks Ov biting truth ignored The only living to pass the trail The last to hear the Echoes Ov old Interred--condemned For faith ov Nature over Man Silenced, yet not The solitary path Once trod by bloodsoaked boots, Soaked in innocence and valor Emerging in the eye ov Prophecy The sunworn desert trail, Burning amidst sworn memories The desolated past The mistshroud on the trail, Obscuring the knives of souls Still seeking blood ----------------- 'Burn Your Money' Opening minds by cracking heads Every body that we leave dead Wins in the end Enforcing our will through terror and lies We won't stop until our nuclear child Grows--ready to go? Every fucking breath I take Is like eating cyanide chocolate cake Burn all the market-whores at the stake! {begin chorus} Burn your money! When you're freezin' cold at night, Burn your money! When you've not a single light, Burn your money! When you realize they're not right, Burn your money! {end chorus} The rules are more important than your kids They're just the by-product of the wrong you did Hey--it's time to pay Peace and free existence are our enemies We'll eradicate all other entities You--it's all for you! Every time I take a drink Feels like my body's on the brink Poison from the faucet in my sink! {chorus}