Black Narcissus

This Wondered Realm

( TRIJAN REFRAIN )

Oh mighty earth, this wondered realm
This world on which we stand
Such dream my senses overwhelm
Held strong in Gods own hand.
My eyes will see the truth this day
Of tumult born and ocean sway
My eyes will see
My eyes will see
And speak such words as life I pray.

Through grinding ice and sandy waste
To rising mountain peak
Such bountied life so interlaced
My eyes forever seek.
I walk this earth with head bowed low
In praise to life such special glow
I walk this earth
I walk this earth
And praise the day of life's bestow.

Yet long this day as man destroys
My eyes in sadness weep
So cruel this fate of childhood joys
That burns my soul so deep.
So hear my plea this begging voice
Till once again I sing rejoice
So hear my plea
So hear my plea
For man this realm such mortal choice.

Alchemists of Sentience

Alchemists of sentience, canapés mystique
footsteps through a daydream, metrical oblique.
Effervescent metaphors naked on the ground
cognisant of nowhere, sipping ultrasound.

Rhythmical persuasion, to be or not to be
sonneting a moonbeam, weaving filigree.
Illusions of importance wander through a rhyme
nondescript expessions, tentative, sublime.

Symbolistic perfidy, ten begets a line
thee's and thou's resplendant, slowly intertwine.
Iambic conversations, whispered avon bound
coffins long forgotten stirring underground.

Mountain Stream

So gentle first, 'neath misted cloud

this spring of life anew

gathered from the melt of ice

and sparkled morning dew.

Through jagged rock, this tender flow

so fresh in joy of birth

till stream in joined abandon

swathes through meadowed earth.

River strong have I become

so proud this grandeured flow

where life abounds, such bounty

in currents far below.

Gentle now, my multiutude

as journey seeks it's end

before me deep and boundless

as ocean fates transcend.

Restless sway, my towered waves

as blessed I meet to dream

this journey through eternity

of natured mountain stream.