Tiresias In Cave Of Dreams
© Surazeus
2025 05 21

When I follow the hawk to the waste land,
where thousands of visionaries have gone
to find Tiresias in Cave of Dreams,
I discover buried in sands of time
true Lyre of Mercury by Well of Odin
where mermaid bones gleam in the blazing sun.

Now millions of children with broken phones,
who want to sing with bold prophetic voice,
follow the Piped Piper of Avalon,
while I sit by the Burning Bush of Faith
high on desolate slopes of Mount Takoma
and strum the Lyre of Mercury with rapture.

From Temple of Apollo on the summit
I see lost children of the fallen empire
crawl among tangled weeds of Wonderland
to find the secret Key of Vatic Wisdom
while lusty Fame chooses with magic wand
the most glamorous poets as acolytes.

Dressed in fancy robes of commercial glamor,
they follow Fame in prestigious parade,
climbing bowed heads on Stairs of Legacy
before the crowd that clamors to join in,
and feast on cakes of sugar-coated praise
in glittering mirrored Hall of Narcissus.

Escaping glamorous Court of the Word King
where the Favored Ones network to gain power,
I leave grand Castle of the Holy Book,
past marble idols of the Famous Seers,
and tread Invisible Trail of the Truth
to secret cave where Tiresias dwells.

Sitting on lotus flower in pool of tears,
I meditate by chanting spell of light
while Tiresias gathers lightning sphere
to channel cosmic energy of truth
and generates virtual model of Earth
that chronicles whole human history.

From spirit egg that flashes divine light
enormous gods composed of human souls
emerge as characters of epic tales
whose masks embody social energies
to perform roles in dramatic events
in culture clash between conceptual gods.

Humans embody social energies
to replay ancient dramas for control
through clash of Titans in the cosmic war
that Jupiter and Jesus ever wage
between democracy and tyranny
till we die and leave the stage for new gods.

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Orpheus learns from Tiresias how to embody social energies of the times and record winners and losers in the never-ending culture wars of vatic poetry.

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