Bard Banner Of Our Muses
© Surazeus
2026 10 03

While I am wandering in dark tangled woods,
alone in changeless glimmer of dead gray,
I find the fallen banner of the bard
who wrenched it from the western skies with verve
to light the beacon of musical truth
that shines from Parnassus with holy glow.

With trembling hands of my lost legacy,
which sparks awake the timeless glow of faith
in my young witch-wrought heart, I lift up high
that noble banner of our ancient clan,
then light again with flame of prophecy
that beacon on the bleak Parnassian height.

I find the broken lyre of Mercury,
that Apollo strummed with passionate heart
some thirty centuries of change ago,
which passed through skilled hands of many brave singers,
Phoebus, Homer, Ovid, Virgil, Dante,
Shakespeare, and Milton, to my hand this hour.

After tuning strings taut with intense faith,
I strum the lyre of Mercury and sing
enchanting hex that conjures from mute gloom
ghosts of great singers in my bardic clan,
Philip, Anne, Oliver, William, James, Sarah,
Edwin, and Robert, who flock to my tune.

Joining in spontaneous choir of sweet song,
they beam mercurial voices of bright truth
in threads of eerie melodies that weave
grand tapestry of visionary tales
which illustrate our transcendental faith
in spells blessed by the Muses of our hearts.

High on transcendent peak of arcane faith,
I sing the ancient tale of human hope
while bearing banner of our bardic clan,
and tend the sacred flame of divine truth
that shines from Parnassus with holy glow
to light our world with wisdom of the Muses.

Through eerie silence of human despair,
from hearts crushed by destructive wars for power,
strange songs of disharmonious ardency
emerge from hundred million wounded hearts
whose spells of hope from isolated rooms
swell whole together through aspiring wind.

Now that bard banner of our Muses flies
aloft in pure wind of ethereal song,
brave voices of hundred million Earth bards
fuel flame of truth in beacon of our hearts
which beams from sacred peak of high Parnassus
to light the Way for people of the world.

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Orpheus teaches me how to tune the lyre of Mercury and sing great stories of the human heart that radiate from our bodies with intense passion for the beauty of love.

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