Cartography Of Tropes
© Surazeus
2026 06 09

Attempts to eradicate sentiment,
that tangle my heart with vines of desire,
prove more than difficult to implement
when I am but one voice in the global choir
that sings hymns about bright Heaven above
through universal law of selfless love.

Strange feelings shaped by artificial hope
writhe in my heart with fierce draconic need
to manage programmed rites that help me cope
with social drama from religious creed
designed to chain my heart with rigid rules
which I dismantle with conceptual tools.

Emotions based on vision of the real,
my mind projects through frame of my world view,
propel my progress on the Fortune Wheel
when I attend my quest to code the true
defined by ideal trope of my dream state
that helps me choose condition of my fate.

My naming secret specter of my soul,
expressed well by character mask I wear,
asserts specific space where I play role
attentive to cause effect that I dare
present as purpose of deeds I perform
which models fluid response by the norm.

Tending inner identity through code
that weaves fragments of memories in verse,
I shift thought gears to spool efficient node
that binds my body to the universe
as phantom sprouting from matrix of light,
enhanced by radiant wisdom in dream flight.

If I attempt to frame my psychic being
through universal template of mankind
I find my soul defined by angel wing
that spreads wide scope of my expanding mind
so bright compassion of my glowing heart
flows out beyond grid limits of my chart.

With courage of feelings, I navigate
Slough of Despond to find the Promised Land,
but Petrus stops me at the Pearly Gate,
demanding I show passport with my hand
that Jesus signed and stamped with Bloody Cross,
so I build New Heaven as my own boss.

Intense passion of feelings are no good
for guiding my way in vast maze of myths,
so I advance by faith through gloomy wood
with Lamp of Lucifer to megaliths
since I prefer cartography of tropes
to journey safely on rough mountain slopes.

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Orpheus explains that poetry relies on tropes rather than sentiment to efficiently guide the questing soul through Slough of Despond to the Promised Land.

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