Yearning,
to run like a coyote upon the plains.
Wishing,
for these atrophied third eyes
to open wide in awareness.
Waiting,
in tooth and claw
bestial and psychically crying
with this Therion within.
Waiting for the storm of grey
to tint my eyes' blossom
into a lotus of opus
Yearning for the Ganesha
caught in the rye,
to catch me on the helix blotter
while mice and men go awry
into bleak murmurs of a dark age.
Waiting under pastulent pastures of patience
Ripening in potentials, to bear the fruit
that only suffering can allot.
Healing and growing,
green growling self-knowing
from snake-eyes thrown
onto the scales.
I won't back down.
There is no fail,
and I am not caught on the flypaper
of ignorance
sticky impure with corruption.
Synchronicity conduits are slithering Cerastes
horned and beckoning me along the path,
to the treasury's gate.
Ceaseless, endearing, compassionate,
It's too ornate to not
Do good. Be kind. Live well.
I'm just the trails of green and red in your eyes.
Pointing you to the directions of an already-existent paradise.
I'll run like a hoarse horse in your throat and grasp your soul.
Look into these eyes and you'll see a thousand-year-old man,
Jiving to the ampersands' our-glass counting away eternal time.
Linearities are posterities I wear on my persona's mask
The quantum quiescence is much more of my essence
I'll murder ignorance with kindness and bleed like a cup to your lips.
Until I've filled you to your potential's will-o'-the-wisp.
Then I'll whisper what in your life you've so missed.
Like a lion roaring into a great mist.
Knowing what's in its shroud:
When your ego comes out to play,
In all its complexes, biased, empty,
I'll shapeshift and shed away
Till you're ego-dead and know that
Words don't have much to say.
But certainly more than your ego ever did.
Author notes
Cerastes is a horned healing serpent.
Therion means beast.
Ganesha is an elephant-headed Hindu deity, son of Shiva, opener of ways.
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EXCELLENTLY magnific...
I have read a great poem... "Yearning, Wishing, Waiting" is rich in imagery, lexicon and symbolism. A superb composition... A poetic-philosophic flower.
In respect and admiration,
Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU
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The word that could replace the THIRD word of line NINE second Stanza, is "PUSTULANT", unless You meant to use "POLLUTANT". Also The second word of line NINE: I can't read it there. It seems that line nine needs a revision.
Stanza FIVE, line five: The third word, "ampersands' ". THIS WORD IS A PUNCTUATION SIGN WHICH MEANS "And". It is written as a plural of AMPERSAND, and it indicates a possessive ("ampersands'). The only way I could read line five to make sense ~ was:
"Jiving to the ampersands' our-glass counting away eternal time."
End of line four: "man" <<<< >>>>>-----------------...----------->man<><>4
IS DANCING HIS JAZZ'S MEMORIES "counting away eternal time." <><>5
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"Therion" <> First Stanza, third word.
THERION:
Greek for "wild animal" or "beast" (θηρίον
, may refer to:
Therion, the name the Greeks gave to the constellation Lupus. ("wolf")
Therion (band), the Swedish symphonic metal band
Therion (Thelema), a god in Thelema, consort of Babalon.
Master Therion or To Mega Therion, a title assumed by Aleister Crowley
To Mega Therion
To Mega Therion may also refer to:
Aleister Crowley, who took the title meaning "The Great Beast" in Greek from the Book of Revelation.
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I loved Therion. Did not know that word. Like it though.
Will use!
This poem leaves me frustrated, beacuse you explained the meaning of words I know, like Ganesha, but not things like
ampersands', quiescence, posterities, will-o'-the-wisp.
Are these american things? I consider myself pretty good with vocabulary, but for the life of me I have no idea what that stanza meant.
Favourite line...
I'll run like a hoarse horse in your throat and grasp your soul.
It flows greatly. I loved the word change there.
And ego-dead. I liked that phrase...
Excellent ending.
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All the words that you mentioned can be found in any dictionary. I guess it's not fair to only explain a select few words. I'm going to edit my author's notes to contain the other words which are questionable to you.
Thank you so much for your review! You aren't American? Which nationality are you? Since it appears English isn't your first language, that's why some of the poem was just past you. I tend to mess with language a lot, and to someone with it even as just a second tongue, I could see some of it being hard to understand.
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clever word artistry
a tumble of consciousness
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