Time-Crooked Harp
© Surazeus
2026 06 05

Confused by turpentine of psychic thoughts
that mangle phonelines without alphabets,
Phoebus extricates from pages of books
conceptual phantoms of princes and priests
who leech off farmers tending fields of wheat,
then plays haunting tunes on time-crooked harp.

Excited by oxygen of dream codes
that divert attention of business clerks,
Gandalf guards broken gate to paradise
by stealing apples from the Tree of Life
and selling them to pilgrims in black robes
who seek salvation from the laughing skull.

Disturbed by acetone of ardent faith
that Angry Storm Man watches over us,
Lucifer patrols maze of city streets
with lamp of truth dispelling gloom of hope
in garden of weeping idols to find
last happy child of the apocalypse.

Inspired by nitrogen of angel blood
designed as ink for mad philosophers,
Faunus chases shadow of his dead wife
deep in Abbatia Sancti Michaelis
where Sibyl lounging on gold velvet couch
reveals prophecy of the Scarlet Horse.

Unsettled by helium of holy light
that beams from nuclear reactor of power,
Belenus climbs steep Stairway of the Dead
to marble Portal of the Zodiac
where refugees of war beg for peach pies
baked by the woman with ten thousand eyes.

Delighted by krypton of stellar tones
that radiate from galactic spheres of souls,
Orion calculates romantic scale
expanding scope of dream analysis
we need to comprehend divinity
inherent in programming of our brains.

Troubled by chlorine of religious creeds
that reframe moral values of cult clowns,
Sagittarius masks his rebellious heart
with stolid posture of obedience
till he escapes glass walls of paradise
and wanders lost to find Elysium.

Electrified by neon of true love
that emanates from every human heart,
Percival strums gold lyre of Mercury
and sings epic tale of the Measurer
who maps whole history of humanity
by weaving names in tapestry of fate.

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Orpheus finds the Scarlet Horse grazing on shore of the Volga River, so he offers her apple of paradise as they chat about philosophy.

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