Forest of the Laughing Crow
© Surazeus
2026 07 01

With dignity of his royal bloodline,
Jacobus strolls with sacred map of truths
alone in forest of the laughing crow
with mission to find jewel of the heart
that translates secret thoughts to honest words
so he can understand how people feel.

When he approaches castle on the hill,
where beautiful woman with long gold hair
sings in small window of the lofty tower,
Jacobus asks old Petrus at the gate
if he may enter paradise with faith
and woo Johanna with the golden fruit.

Amazed by ghost of electricity
that glimmers as bone mask hiding her face,
Jacobus climbs winding stairway to Heaven
after opening ninety thousand doors
in endless maze of mental fantasy
till he finds Garden of Hesperides.

He longs to taste sweet immortality
that drips from delicate lips of her heart,
but Johanna hides behind veil of faith
by asking riddles about ways of love
that only the Sphinx with star eyes would know,
but he answers each one with clever verse.

While gazing in bronze mirror of her heart
to question how her choices make her fate,
Johanna sees gold crown shine on her head
that transforms into boy with raven quill
who writes epic poem of philosophers,
so she accepts Jacobus in her heart.

White horse of wisdom with angelic wings
glides gracefully in hills of swirling mist
to bear Johanna safely to star cave
where she wears Crown of Scotia on her head
to reign as glorious Queen of Fairyland
whose children journey far across the sea.

On bonnie shores of Loch Lomond at dawn,
Jacobus and Johanna teach their son
how to investigate nature of things
with ardent observation of the eye
that measures strengths and weaknesses of forms
described by parables our brains compose.

You are my shining compass with bright eyes,
Johanna sings to boy with beaming smile
who tries to comfort her loss-anguished heart
as they kneel by Jacobus on the grass,
assassinated by cruel greed for power,
as apple tree blooms from his bleeding heart.

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Orpheus teaches young Jacobus how to play the Lyre of Mercury as the boy, imprisoned in the tower, composes poem of love for Johanna Bonifortia.

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