Brave New World
© Surazeus
2025 03 23

Wandering the same road as everyone else,
I fluctuate in and out of existence
while I draw the true to erase the false
through dream synergy of psychic persistence
because the roads we walk today remain
long after our souls vanish in the rain.

Turning the radio knob of my brain,
I feel my voice fade in and out of silence
so secret words may clarify in vain
truths I dare not express without the license
issued by Institute of Proper Truth
managed by son of the messiah sleuth.

Dancing around the Trevi Fountain Pool,
I flicker in and out of film observance
and throw three coins, according to the rule,
to wish for happiness from divine science
in sacred water of romantic love
we first experience in the moonlit cove.

Descending spiral road to caves of Hell,
I wander in and out of time appliance
through literary door of thought control
to find my soulmate with hermetic guidance
when I invade cathedral hall of breath
through inspiration of psychotic death.

Outlining patterns in material forms,
I flash in and out of idea persistence
to manage estates of flourishing farms
united in empire of social alliance
as we integrate nations of the world
in one state measured by the cosmic herald.

Uniting rich diversity of souls,
I vibe in and out of legal compliance
with generous respect for all lifestyles
which bond well in cooperative acceptance
that fuels engine of artistic endeavors
in bold creation of cultural treasures.

Analyzing conceptual state of being,
I breathe in and out of scriptural reliance
through inspiration of the angel wing
that sparks vision of prophetic contrivance
in revelation of the new world order
that will erase every national border.

Designing new global world view of life,
I whirl in and out of spiritual defiance
with strict elocution through mental strife
to unite the world with artful transcendence
by building on ruins of America
brave new world empire of Zarathia.

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Orpheus and Ophelia play in the Trevi Fountain pool, then throw in three coins and wish for justice, liberty, and peace for all.

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My Grief Is My Own
© Surazeus
2025 03 23

My grief is my own, so I will contain
volatile ardor of my suffering
trapped in receptacle of my strained heart
to preserve aggression of passive angst
safe from causing injury to other people
who struggle to deal with their own affliction.

So many innocent people of Earth,
who seek to escape oppressive conditions
and struggle across waste land of despair
to find haven safe from exploitive thieves,
stumble blind into far worse situations,
trapped in bitter hell they cannot escape.

Accumulation of their wordless grief,
piled onto unbalanced scale of my heart,
weighs all their suffering of relentless pain
more heavy than enormous mindless stones
crushing my mind with fearful agony
that I cannot rescue even one from sorrow.

I want to save, with bold alacrity
of eager zeal, every person on Earth
trapped in exploitive hell by greedy thieves
who suck their vital dreams with vampire lust
so maze of cities becomes cluttered thick
with traumatized zombies searching for love.

Numb from excessive vibes of bitter pain
radiating from mute hearts of fear-trapped souls
who despair at ever living in freedom,
I wander vast maze of weird mythless world
past smiling faces that hide helpless regret
which drives them to stage ineffective rituals.

Clutching to my heart with desperate hope
magic ring of invisibility,
I clamber down in Underworld of fear
to forge divine key of true comprehension
so I can open every prison door
and free frightened souls trapped in legal limbo.

Hundreds of thousands of women and men,
trapped in void between law and lawlessness
as alien immigrants to Wonderland,
cry out for help to Storm God in Glow Cloud
who invests power in wealthy oligarchs
to enslave their bodies for pilfered profit.

The cage-trapped Eagle of America,
who tries to hatch stone of grand principle
that every soul is equal in the law,
attempts to escape storm of revolution,
but dies when its head cracks at golden bars,
so I keep heart-breaking grief to myself.

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Orpheus sings grief of every person on Earth in heart-enchanting hymn of faith in divine justice of the universe that sometimes takes its time getting implemented.

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Mirror Mask Of Sisyphus
© Surazeus
2025 03 22

Hieroglyphs inscribed on lightning-cracked stones
depict the Raven God with thirteen eyes
leading refugees of home-blasting war
through narrow roadless mountain vale of hope
to find dream garden of the Promised Land
hidden behind enormous walls of wealth.

To walk backward in future of the mind
where television screens in trunks of trees
present whole history of the human race,
I wear the mirror mask of Sisyphus
to stand before statue of Pegasus
and pose for celebrity photographs.

While marching in the band of howling clowns
in oval stadium full of cheering crowds,
we gather fragments of shattered world views
to build abstract sculptures of twisted bars
which represent the leading characters
performing roles in our disastrous show.

Organic forms of plants and animals
emerge from pungent passion of the soil
to play the subtle personality
sensitive to ever-shifting terrain
in social drama fraught with fake respect
that changes lives with contrived honesty.

Traveling through space of transforming time
to work in garden of flowers and herbs,
I consider how the stranger might feel
on reversing tide of conceptual hope
where I shall sing plain prophecies of doom
while taking stock of truth designed by fate.

Wolves surround the wounded king in the snow
who prays to the rising moon with fierce hope
to extract lithium from old rugged hills
where every honest poet in the world
wanders among cactus of blind skeletons
who dance on graves of thieving oligarchs.

If we remember her electric laugh
that rings cathedral bells of self-control,
we might soon comprehend why colors cry
to robot angels of Elysium
who sell stolen feathers of Pegasus
to curious tourists from land of the brave.

Though I escape blank page of the dream book
I will play better self my heart designs
to steal the thorny crown of sacrifice
from head of the god who eats lightning strikes
so he can become human before he dies
and his atoms formulate flowing streams.

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Orpheus buys mirror mask of Sisyphus from Goodwill in the small university town to prank his best friend who lost her government job.

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Unwinds Clockless Time
© Surazeus
2025 03 22

Stars sink into the dusty yard of sad,
uwinding clockless time of random thoughts
that swindle mystery of its puzzling truth
so we forget soft why of arrogance
when children tiptoe past the room of death
where asters burst through windows of disgust.

My body encased in ghost-sheen of frost
breaks free from dragon egg of naked hope
when I wake in darkness of empty rooms
and drive through light of endless waning moons
forever over contours of my brain
that match the landscape of unshadowed vales.

Each river that loses its sacred name
in swirling indifference of the blind sea
describes annunciation of rebirth
where nameless swimmers search for my real home
to howl each time they emerge for fresh air
with visitation of angelic ghouls.

The painting of the woman on the wall
who calls to the fisherman in the boat
that floats between lonely hills and glow clouds
reveals uneasy doubts I try to hide
in bowl of tangerines beside the book
that seems to record tale of the last god.

When I go back to the house for the book
presenting story of the cosmic herald,
I get stuck in time loop of false desire
through inquisition of the holy cult
based on hypothetical creed of faith,
awake on tranquil bay of innocence.

As displaced person of the jungle tribe,
clutching relic of my fear-broken god,
I meditate on nature of the heart
in cold cement prison cell of fear,
stuck in limbo between Heaven and Hell
that reflect state of mind I imitate.

Still priest of Hermes in old temple ruins,
I play the sacred flute of haunting angst
that weaves pure darkness of the lonely heart
in star-stained fragrance of barley and wine
while I guide you on the shadowy path
to lightless Underworld of faceless ghosts.

Yet Caliban emerges with green blood
from treacherous womb of the willow witch
to sing ice-crystal absence of the heart
with heart-amending melody of faith
that gushes from eyes of the jester king
who uwinds clockless time of riddle dreams.

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Orpheus measures progress of unwinding clockless time to analyze consequences of the time loop where America breaks into warring states.

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Windy Alder Swamp
© Surazeus
2025 03 22

When I find at last the wild alder swamp
where, many years ago before my birth
Jack Frost, the mad-eyed seer of Vermont,
found winter garden of red-berried snow,
I see rancid paradise he described
that ever floats between Heaven and Earth.

His gaunt luxuriating beast of fate
still lurks in shadows of this alder swamp
where trees begin to bud in spring-flared light
that strips my soul of anguished self-concern
so I stand denuded and vulnerable
to close inspection of late-winter sun.

Intense anxiety of wordless fear
swells thick inside my heart with thwarted hope
for something beautiful beyond this pain
that surges ocean tides of bitter faith
in dark depression of black moody sky,
till I express despair with harpy cry.

Stuck in blackening phase of alchemy
that sears my heart with tangled energy,
I breathe deep foul scent of the alder swamp,
suppressed by frigid frost of winter gloom,
then harmonize expressive melody
in hopeful tones of weird aggressive hymn.

With sudden whir of sober-feathered birds,
that swoop through matrix of time-twisted limbs,
I feel depressive passion bloom awake
with flowers bursting from leaf-matted soil
in words far sadder than the mist-veiled moon
that glows indifferently with pretty light.

Still on the forlorn road of vanished hope
in windy alder swamp of hungry birds,
I sense storm clouds fly tattered over hills
reflected in cracked quartz stone in my hand
that refracts depression with moon-white gleam
so I find words to express how I feel.

Rain-soaked boughs of alders overhead
shake water of lost Heaven on my face,
so I crouch by sky-silver pond of truth,
and almost caress rippling waves with hands
that feel vibration of this ancient Earth
pulse in tune with beating heart in my breast.

So I decide to choose less traveled road
from winter garden in the alder swamp
that bends through undergrowth of memories
to free my heart from forest of regret
so I can measure difference of my doubt
through choices I make that create my fate.

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Orpheus finds Robert Frost in the winter garden of the alder swamp where they chit-chat about anxiety that drives the human desire to create beautiful art in a seemingly-hostile world.

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Courage Of The Wolf
© Surazeus
2025 03 21

The chemical properties of the ghost
teach me to impersonate my old self
with careful beauty of library shelves
which call me with voice of the lonely wolf
trapped in the box of love letters I lost
till grenade of my heart explodes with love.

When I write my autobiography
I must balance binary of the brain
between withholding or revealing pain
with shameless passion of the aching heart
that plays the exhibitionist of lust
bleeding from core of my pathetic past.

The woman I love wearing long black dress,
who stands in cemetery of lost faith,
calls out to spiders of the starless lair
to rise from rotten brains of ancient gods
and weave vast web of tangled platitudes,
so they obey the star-eyed spider witch.

The woman I love wearing white silk gown
plucks orange from the tree of clandestine faith,
then offers it to me with open hands
and smile that dazzles me with light of truth,
so we embrace in passionate respect
with hearts entangled in red thread of love.

While sitting by the window at her desk,
the woman I love wearing flower wreath
types lines of words on paper of my heart
while her gold cat stretches with nonchalance
behind typewriter clacking with weird spell
that weaves my body frame from sentences.

Leading me by hand to the apple grove
where skulls of dead gods sing old prophecies,
she teaches me the song of river light
so I can understand the burning house
where angels beat their wings in furious hope
to heal the brokenhearted of the world.

Cadence of wrens in maple trees inspire
my heart to rise from empty grave of faith
and give my last apple with generous hand
to the oldest woman in the whole world
who teaches me to read how water flows
because the innocent girl always knows.

He holds the Book of Dreams in crippled hand
and prays till it becomes the silver raven
who knows the secret name my mother sang
while cuddling me in shelter of her arms
when thunderstorm raged over mountain vales
to fill my heart with courage of the wolf.

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Orpheus and Ophelia study physics and economics in the university library as twilight dusk veils the world in holy light.

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When Light Strides Bold
© Surazeus
2025 03 21

When light strides bold on solitary fields
and speaks to me of truth I should know well,
I weave its vibrant colors in my heart
as science overtakes my aching need
and teaches me to feel the sacrament
encroaching on my soul with eerie tones.

With each ancestral life of hope I walk,
awake in present body of my genes,
I find out who I am through suffering
as I abide with struggles of the heart
on unblazed trail past milestones of desire
where angels scold me with dire honesty.

Though tribe of my gene-clan is scattered far
and wide across the landscape of lost hope,
and everyone I love has turned to stones
that lie forgotten on the trail of tears,
I keep on walking toward dark distant hills
to reconcile my heart with knowing faith.

Black wings of ravens in the sprawling oak,
that flutter at approach of breathless fear,
reveal strange beauty of her star-bright eyes
that guide my way with confidence of love
through tangled forest of misconstrued words
where god of sorrow lurks by pool of lies.

She howls not at injustice of the world
for she steals away from its hostile games
to dance in meadow of the singing horse
who gives her wings of faithful mystery
so she can touch weird beauty of the sky
that mirrors secret wisdom of her heart.

While wandering on the hill of hopelessness,
we meet the moon-eyed prophet of despair
whose face is chiseled gaunt by wind-blown rain,
and ask if he can see future events,
but he points to the endless swirling sea
and chants grim spell that may set all hearts free.

The shriveled souls of fallen angels writhe
with violent agony surpassing faith,
dismissing possibilities through hope
that we may resurrect from rotten mud,
so we wrap all painful experiences
in secret book of miraculous life.

Across our tranquil land of signless roads
we follow shadow of the singing horse
to fertile Garden of Hesperides
where the wizard forges everyone keys
so we can share sweet joy of this brief life
when light strides bold on solitary fields.

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Orpheus and Ophelia meet Emily Dickinson who strides as light on solitary fields to understand how her ancestors know.

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Attention Of The Court
© Surazeus
2025 03 21

The trees of sorrow on the laughing plain
call my secret name in arrogant rain,
so I seek beauty on the wind-lashed shore
far outside comfort of the broken door
to sing with demons of Plutonian night
who shriek in horror at comfort of light.

Yet, when I wake in normal state of mind,
that bizarre illusion my brain designed
dissipates at glow of dawn on the wall,
so I wander groggily down the hall
to stare out the window and drink orange juice
while pretending I am not son of Zeus.

As agent of his secret justice squad,
recruited out of college by Storm God,
I must devise coherent action plan
with clever wisdom of the mountain man
to save our great nation from tyranny
and restore functioning democracy.

So I fry eggs and hash browns on the stove
while I count weapons in the treasure trove,
then drive the crowded highway into work,
where old spies and treasonous assets lurk,
to write detailed situation report
about the need for clandestine support.

Organizing gangs of soldiers with guns
who discuss war plans with misleading puns,
I gather army of fierce patriots
who arrive in pairs and take up their spots
to remove the traitor from seat of power
who hides terrified in his golden tower.

Just as we are ready to save the state
Minerva intervenes with spear of fate,
declaring that we are a nation of laws
dedicated to maintain noble cause
of justice through attention of the court
to enforce the right and punish the tort.

Though the traitor threatens to seize rich land,
and the thief waves the chainsaw in his hand,
we will not employ acts of violence
that would break all dutiful precedence
to arrest their rampage of grasping greed
through application of our honest creed.

Biding our time in shadows of the truth,
we develop plan with messiah sleuth
to arrange by the book through legal means
Operation Caesar with judgment liens
executed well by our cosmic herald
who leads revolution to save the world.

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Orpheus hosts meeting of intelligence officers to plan steps for saving our democratic republic from oligarchic tyranny.

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Tides Of Our Ocean Mind
© Surazeus
2025 03 20

I find the natural history of my soul
as primal star-glitter of the First Flash
in crystal geodes of the agate stone
that reflects memories of ancestral brains
woven in tangled genes of my sponge brain
that pulses with tides of our ocean mind.

Crouched by twisted pine on snow-frosted shore,
I become wild gush of the mountain stream
that sings ten thousand years about true love
based on the clumsy way I interact
with people who perceive me every day,
so I walk ten thousand miles to the sky.

Because pines know the reason I was born
they dream the way I walk beyond my death
since ferns are growing from my bloody chest
in jeering sunlight of uncoupled time,
so I eat raspberries from thorny vines
to prove Pain cannot find my naked soul.

With twisted finger of perpetual hope
I write long treatise in forest-floor dirt
discussing existential truth of roots
in complex theory on meaning of time
that unwinds mute surprise of ringing bells
at pungent scent of mushrooms in wet soil.

From gaunt-faced hunter in dark primal woods
to noble well-fed king in castle court,
I paint enormous canvas of my trip
in winding maze of myths beyond my grave
to chat with alligators in the swamp
who work as lawyers in my new regime.

Hysteric laughter of the Apple Witch
startles me awake from ominous dream
to calculate thematic drone of faith
when planes crash burning in the field of wheat
to prove we understand how Death unbinds
spirits from brains of unbroken desire.

In solidarity with distraught hawks,
wounded soldiers draped in the red-cross flag
walk stuck in loop of the lunar eclipse
that conceals the road home to paradise
though they study patterns of weird behavior
based on channels of television shows.

Nervous with melancholy of lost faith
on leather couch before three cameras,
I answer questions on meaning of life
with language of rocks polished by the sea
on the late-night television talk show
which beams atoms of my soul to your heart.

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Orpheus calculates tides of our ocean mind with formulas of faith encoded in fairy tales that mothers tell children to scare them straight.

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Room Of Somethingness
© Surazeus
2025 03 20

In dreamless nothing of the star-black mind
I search for meaning to invent with words
which I breathe from gush of the water stream
that shouts loud at my face with mocking faith
as I lean close to catch the darting fish
so I can roast it on the crackling flame.

Still dreamless in the realm of mystery,
I gather fearful flowers from lush fields
to untangle regret from roots of herbs
that cannot clear confusion of the fog
with flash of sunlight through its veil of hope
that pierces my heart with anguish of faith.

Twisting spines of books from aggressive trees,
while I somersault bitter sea of joy,
I build expanding house with countless rooms
with brooding horror of the stinging rain
that mocks my attempt to shelter my heart
from haunted normalcy of restless wind.

Stuck in perpetual wakefulness of faith,
delicate eyes still dissolving to rain,
I move through unconfirmed shadows of time
to hide in cavern of fake innocence
in nowhere rampant with sorrow denied
by urgent quietude of still-locked doors.

To each adjacent room of somethingness,
half-stuck inside books of weird fairy tales
disgusting as slime of the seaside harbor,
I progress backward through stark formulas
designed to calculate abundant fear
collapsing in the future we abhor.

Tomorrow never comes from fog of war
framed by basement window of the stained heart
that runs with feral attitude of pride
to catch moonbeams encased in angel wings
offensive to the man who claims as his
everything that exists on this mud world.

I hear no clocks chime hour of broken hearts
at sudden intervals of falling pears
despite the radio signal no one hears
crackling in tangled wires of my glass brain
with zealous passion for social ideals
consistent with how castle walls reverse.

For every door I knock on with respect
ten doors are locked against kind prejudice
that disabuses how horizons shape
fraught ontology of cathedral hymns
which children assemble from puzzle shards
so I can claim I know who I should be.

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Orpheus tries to fix the clocks of broken hearts with wires woven from shadows stuck in the room of somethingness.

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Fields Of Silent Hope
© Surazeus
2025 03 20

Once I rise from gold casket of the sun,
dazed by strange wisdom of the spinning Earth,
I walk across the fractured-mirror sky
to scatter teardrops on the conquering dead
who took nothing of the world in their hands
when they crumbled to dust with those they killed.

The woman who swallows poisonous spiders
shows me how to extract honey from trees
so we can eat sweet sorrow of the world
before great sprawling cities of steel towers
disintegrate into computer code
that mistranslates tales of our futile lives.

Black cows graze in the valley of despair
without aggressive interest in results
of horses races men bet on to get rich
while mourning for fall of their world empire
at second coming of the hungry clown
who steals gifts from Christmas trees at midnight.

I see no star man floating in the sky,
but I do see farmers, feet on the ground,
working in boundless fields of silent hope,
while the girl who keeps the sea in her heart
looks for solutions among purple thistles
while whistling The House of the Rising Sun.

No one regrets true love more than she does,
so she studies how moose and arctic fox
live in the tundra of perpetual faith
by measuring distance to half-frozen pool
that resembles eye of the dinosaur
who walked these lands millions of years ago.

The child who speaks ancient language of sheep
tells his mother about the laughing crow
that hops on the freezing cast-iron stove
before dawn sun can break another heart
with silent absence of the nameless face
which means the opposite of what she thinks.

The gray-haired mother who still prays in church
tells the tombstone where her son lies in dirt
that she trusts in God to protect his life,
and glares at the old man in the oak tree
who tells her God has abandoned mankind,
then wades into the lake to drown herself.

The riderless horse with moon-silver eyes
glides regally in streets of Washington
to bring faceless ghost of the fallen king
back from lush meadows of Elysium
so he can save the republic at last
from grasping hands of Ozymandias.

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Orpheus films farmers working in silent fields of hope to raise crops that feed the empire of people at computers in sprawling cities of steel towers.

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Free In The Bitter Rain
© Surazeus
2025 03 19

I prowl inside dark mirror of lost time
to shoot star words at bullseye of my eye
while dancing the waltz with my loving gun
who chooses how much angry I should be
till I fall backward in the flowing stream
and float while I sing in the bitter rain.

When I call to my disquieting Muse
to help me analyze this shocking time
when traitors and thieves control government,
she throws me dragon bone of faith to chew,
so I carve holes to hollow out its core
and play haunting flute in the bitter rain.

I dip my hands in fountain of desire
that nourishes eight billion human souls
with stirring stories of women and men
who work together to create free world
where children of their bodies can live free
by fighting tyrants in the bitter rain.

I push against taut walls of the blank book
to expand conscious awareness of truth
so I can base fantasy of my mind
on what is real in swirling of this world,
perceivable as concepts formed by words,
so I can fly free in the bitter rain.

I tell my heart that we will always lose
every person we love with selfless faith,
and everything we create with our hands,
so my heart cries out to the glowing cloud
with the same brave prayer my ancestors prayed
while they kneeled on fire in the bitter rain.

Grand ruins of my castle in tall weeds
waits mute for me to return from the sea
and restore crumbling halls to former glory
so we can gather in candle-lit court
and sing enchanting hymns to nothingness
while cannons blast us in the bitter rain.

Still roaming labyrinth of genetic dreams
where idols of all my ancestors stand,
I gather pages of lost memories
to write new epic of the human tale
with moist prophet eyes of the weeping god
whose healing tears flash in the bitter rain.

At flash of lightning that cracks door of faith
storm god Odin, wielding Spear of Gungnir,
emerges from the crumbling hall of stone
to remove mask of Jesus from his face,
then lifts holy grail of wine and hails Truth,
our Goddess who sings in the bitter rain.

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Orpheus plays lyre of Mercury in Valhalla and sings epithalamium to celebrate marriage of Odin with granddaughter of Jesus.

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Young Hearts Swell
© Surazeus
2025 03 19

After he finishes his evening meal
of fried chicken, chocolate cake, and grape juice,
Zeus lounges on back porch in evening glow
when the setting sun makes everything gold,
and tells trees, "Thieves destroy the government
so fearful rich men can control our minds."

When rich men attempt to enslave the poor
by destroying every social program
that supports their efforts to work and thrive,
the Freudian Fire of revolution burns
hot within beating hearts of the oppressed,
so they will unite to retake control.

Squirrels chase each other up and down oaks,
small flock of deer travel the neighborhood
to eat spring-burgeoning grass of new hope,
and robins attack reflections in glass,
while Everyman lounging on his back porch
considers how to save the land he loves.

When golden daffodils of timeless faith
bloom bright in yards of late-winter gray grass,
our hearts rouse from drowsiness of despair
at startling collapse of our nation-state,
so he gazes up at clouds that gleam gold
in the Maxfield Parrish sky of our hearts.

Beneath wild clouds of arrogant respect,
bold Cadmus strides across the horn-plowed field,
and sows sharp teeth of dragons in moist soil
to nurture generation of brave warriors
whose young hearts swell with patriotic pride
to fight well for Justice and Liberty.

Across the jagged mountains of disdain
clever Princess Parizade with gold eyes
bears in her generous hands with ardent faith
the Singing Tree that grows from hearts of those
who search for love too far away from home,
and gives it to the humble carpenter.

When dawn light breaks the darkness of despair
and Eos casts gold rays on jagged peaks,
we rise from sleep in Temple of of Lost Tales
to swim in swirling Lake of Synergy,
then gather on the shore to fish for truth
that sparkle silver as they dart in play.

Beyond the moral tales of propaganda
that trap our hearts with religious agenda,
we search for beauty in the spinning world
conjured by vision of the cosmic herald
who builds from ruins of cruel tyranny
new system of global democracy.

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Orpheus lounges on his back porch and ponders how to build new world order of Zarathia from the ruins of America.

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Sand On The Beach
© Surazeus
2025 03 19

The only comfort I feel in my bones
while I lie prone on sunlit pebbled beach
is knowing Death will crush me into sand
with waves of time that flow across my soul,
so I will arise and leave Innisfree
with treasure I find in its glimmering core.

My children scatter far across the world,
blown by the winds of fate to distant lands,
so I sit in lotus status of peace
to float above the television tube
and dream I sail the sea in fragile boat
to find the sacred Isle of Avalon.

Awake on iridescent sea of faith,
with luminous phantom of wise insight
designed by all my ancestors to guide me
safe beyond the waste land of despair,
I feel sad I must abandon strange land
where we had lived for forty thousand years.

My fears swell huge with each wild gust of wind
that blows my boat across the shining sea
till I snap awake in my present life
two thousand years later in distant land
where I record their journey toward the sky
to find where the sun disappears each night.

Browsing books of poetry in the store,
near grand ivy league university
which my ancestor signed the charter for,
I search for stories of adversity
recording heroic deeds of lost fools
who teach oracle-writing in brick schools.

My ancestors dream awake in my head
so I record names and deeds of the dead,
though too many vanish in silent wind
before I can photograph their rich souls
so now they wander in the Netherworld
as faceless ghosts who call the cosmic herald.

Returning to the sacred river vale
where we first met ten thousand years ago,
we talk about our plot to rule the world
by hurling every monarch into Hell
based on oracle of runes in the well
that show us how to save democracy.

My mother weaves my body from sunlight,
yet leaves me memes that teach me to survive
encoded in myths of stories she tells,
then I search landscape of this world
for soul mate to generate life from love
before I dissolve to sand on the beach.

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Orpheus and Ophelia relax on the sand in Miami Beach and drink root beer as their children play laughing in the sparkling waves.

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River Boat Of Faith
© Surazeus
2025 03 18

Cramped against covers of the empty book,
my heart swells with love for all human beings
who find themselves alive in world of dreams,
so I puncture my heart with straw of faith
to drain nutritious juice of charity
so all thirsty souls of the world may drink.

Air full of expectations we inhale,
Earth nurtures our frail bodies with mute care
by weaving roots of trees into our bones
and filling our veins with clear mountain streams
so we can still savor fathomless joy
from ache of passion to dance in the rain.

Celestial breath of hope inspires my heart
so earthly dust that composes my soul
may sparkle brightly in the morning rain
as we support Empyrean of the sky
in realm where ideas of eternal forms
provide patterns for matter to express.

Awake before rays of light illustrate
pearlescent reality of desire,
I reach my hands to touch the stalwart tree
and feel trustworthiness of its firm truth
ordinate my heart in matrix of time
with eerie beauty of the phantom moon.

Hope slumbers deep in structure of my bones
which swell with energy from rays of dawn,
so I rise to express excessive wings
with exercise that constrains ache of hope
to walk sandy beach of arousing breeze
between the rough cliff and the sparkling sea.

Abundant passion of electric tunes
extracts steel sorrow from corrupted mud
with tremendous shyness of holy faith
through impossible occasion of fate
which counters terror with intelligence
to purge despair from hearts in bland surprise.

Indifferent focus of attentive fear
spurs forth repeated statements of respect
from shadow man on river boat of faith
who glides toward crystal tower above trees
where Death lurks in office of bitter wealth
that poisons the thief with arrogant pride.

Truth knocks the weak oppressor off the throne
to free our nation from his tyranny
while we transplant our hearts in fields of snow
where apple trees of innocence may grow
from wind-flapped pages of the empty book
filled now with runes of blood my heart must write.

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Orpheus builds river boat of faith from bones of dinosaurs half-buried in mud on the shore so he can sale the seven seas.

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Sound Of Falling Dirt
© Surazeus
2025 03 18

Sublime anguish of grief in heart of stone
magnifies memories of bitter regret
in abrupt avalanche of absurd words
that crush fragile temple of vanity
with platitudes from sound of falling dirt
vibrating landscape of false paradise.

Dazzled with language in my heart of stone,
which proliferates new realities,
I transition to my alternate self
reflected in reverse image of fear
through attitude for sound of falling dirt,
stunned by absence of the speaker we call.

Too eager to embrace void of the mind
with animistic hunger for weird truth,
she adds zeroes to sum of fractured wealth
to oblige heartlessness of capital
without echoes from sound of falling dirt
accrued through impossible leap of faith.

Insistence on her spiritual register,
burned in ceremony of speechless rage,
he recounts moments surrounding her death
to spare assessment of semantic birth
without regard for sound of falling dirt
that fills empty grave in void of his heart.

Prayer despite reverence for the miracle
blinds his heart to her foolish sacrifice
with broken promise to never forgive,
twisted by pleasure from absence of pain
before advent at sound of falling dirt
while ruminating on the righteous path.

Misfortune of the secret litmus test
discounts shocked feeling of still being alive
though his brain dials electric spirit-trance
for bold imminence of grim bravery
from rectitude at sound of falling dirt
with limited grace of intimate truth.

Stuck in unforgiving mirror of fate
under shadow of death in the light bulb,
she calculates precondition for faith
with token of remembrance she must steal
to observe change at sound of falling dirt,
contrived by network of opportune friends.

Outward judgment based on divine pretense,
tucked away in book of fictional gods,
he calculates sales from self-righteousness
enriching betrayal of social norms
which abides beyond sound of falling dirt
through revelation of translucent wings.

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Orpheus records sound of falling dirt, then adds it as soundtrack for his movie about the man who weeps in grief over the death of his bride bitten by a snake just before their wedding.

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Destroyers Of Our World
© Surazeus
2025 03 18

The river always asks me to believe
wild children in the apple groves are gods
who tell each other oracles to prove
murderous bullies will crown their sons kings
and start religions on the holy creed
that they are sent by God to save the world.

I want to study how the rivers work,
analyzing way that spread water flows
from rainfall on mountains, winding round hills,
swelling wider across lush wooded plains,
and merging into vast swirl of the sea,
then evaporates to rise as shining clouds.

I contemplate how rivers on grass plains,
signified by attention of our minds,
function as metaphor that illustrates
slow process of change we humans observe
by noting growth and decay of constructs
that we define through mystery of time.

Adjusting gear in engine of my car,
I drive with flow of cars through urban zone
in gridded maze of name-signified streets,
regulated by flashing traffic lights,
from house to school to library to store
and back again in endless routine loop.

I sense in strict routine of daily life
magic of that motivational spark
in perpetual motion machine of faith
generating more electrical hope
which fuels aggressive progress of my plan
to build foundation for family success.

Celebrities personify our hopes
that shine as outstanding stars in the game
who achieve success through attentive force
of heart-inspiring discipline in work
that slowly builds in small increments
grand palace of political respect.

Yet all I build may vanish from the world
in sudden flash of disastrous misfortune
when opposing factions of social greed
clash over right to exist and perform
role of power to control cash resource
when I wander lost in the twilight zone.

Strange beauty of this empire we create
through constructive functions of daily work
inspires my heart to love our nation-state,
though greedy oligarchs now seize control,
so to oppose destroyers of our world
we unite and march till they shoot us down.

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Orpheus wanders along the river in the valley near Mount Rainier in the Cascade Mountain Range to study how human societies change.

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White Half-Sunk Boat
© Surazeus
2025 03 17

The pear on the porcelain plate desires
soft caress of delicate leaves to feel
passion of hundred million open doors
that call the old man in white half-sunk boat
who splashes river water to explain
how generosity of love seals fate.

He tells happy children in the schoolyard
that he must go to the jungle of fear
and fight the monsters of despairing greed
where eyeless angels float among tall trees
to calculate sentient grade of true love
sold by the old man in white half-sunk boat.

Stumbling over the invisible wall
that forms the boundary line of arrogance
between opposing nation-states of mind,
he waits still in white half-sunk boat of faith
for birds of paradise to claim gold keys
so they can live in castles made of sand.

Each book he steals from vast library hall,
that describes maneuver tactics of war,
he scatters in the muddy field of corn
along with the long-forgotten brass horn
that Jericho blew to defeat the king
in revolution of white half-sunk boat.

With crozier forged from dragon-crippling brass
Patricius strides on snake-infested shore
to fight death-eaters in the ring of stones
who oppress people of the Emerald Isle
which frees their bodies from their mind control
so they gather by the river at dusk.

Ignoring old man in white half-sunk boat
who prophesies the falling of fake bombs,
the priest twirls crozier in tense martial stance
and fights fierce shaman of the serpent cult
for who has right to live in paradise
and eat fruit of the sacred knowledge tree.

The pear on the table of puzzle shards
shines suddenly bright with ten thousand eyes
who all gaze at glass screen of timeless dreams
which display faceless ghosts of politics
as noble heroes who sacrificed life
to save their families for the photograph.

Torn photograph of his large family
twitches in white half-sunk boat of regret
so he limps slow with stoic agony
to buy his eyes back from the jester-king
then sits on back porch with stringless guitar
to sing heart-breaking psalms of fortitude.

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Orpheus faces Patricius in the ring of stones on Hill of Tara to discuss civil rights of every person born from the rolling stone.

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Road Of Anywhere
© Surazeus
2025 03 17

Through half-deserted streets of Lonely Town
I drive my car on road of anywhere
to find cheap hotel of insidious hope
where no one talks of Michelangelo
for none would dare disturb the universe
at sudden laughter of the bitter curse.

With each decision to revise the truth,
awake with dread on road of anywhere,
I measure endless cycle of my days
to fix God with the formulated phrase
designed to prove that nothing can be real
except anxiety I must not feel.

Alone in murky fog of narrow streets,
I search for Death on road of anywhere
without expression of the crisis prayer
that faceless people prefer to conceal
before the prophet could dare to reveal
corruption in the bitter hearts of men.

I shall presume to face the shocking truth
by dropping crumbs on road of anywhere
with vain hope to expose dishonesty
since I aspire to greatness of the mind
when I stride with bright lantern of desire
to play Prince Hamlet in the next world war.

With purpose of meticulous concern
from scheme to rename road of anywhere
I start the revolutionary scene
to swell bold progress of the changing tide
where mermaids sing to fools with crippling pride
that sweeps old institutions to the sea.

The universe in nutshell of my heart
that shimmers on long road of anywhere
inspires my heart to play the generous king
who rules the boundless space of sovereignty
with overwhelming question no one asks
yet listens to the blind nightingale sing.

Attending moment of crisis with faith
that lures me lost on road of anywhere,
I bear the empty platter with my head
through endless streets in city of the dead
where faceless angels known my secret name
though I refuse to play their ruthless game.

To navigate vast cluttered field of dreams
while I traverse weird road of anywhere
I redesign ontology of truth
with strict erasure of religious creed
in clever constructure from tropic seed
to build cathedral for atheist faith.

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Orpheus helps Doctor Frankenstein tend to the patient etherized upon the table of the resurrection.

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Mask Of Ironic Jesus
© Surazeus
2025 03 17

While wrestling windy shadows of my mind
that buzz electric moonlight through my body,
I sing ethereal sorrow of the sea
in heart-wrenching melodies of despair
to highlight beauty of this eerie world
that shimmers from each object I observe.

Down distant winding Road of Anywhere
I run toward stark horizon of desire
to find beyond bleak nothingness of death
some perfect meaning framed by creed of faith,
but float on wings of Icarus I steal
to wrestle windy shadows of my mind.

Emerging from cracked dragon egg of fear
quicker than huge cockroach along my table,
with Phoenix wings too tangled in phone lines,
demonic Grendel crouches in my heart,
wearing golden mask of ironic Jesus
to offer salvation from propaganda.

So I shout random concepts in weird spells
to divert acid attention of Death
from hidden treasures of my pulsing soul
which unravel curses of legal discourse
congealing into propaganda code
designed to hypnotize with truthful lies.

Beneath the plum tree in Garden of Eden,
where John Keats transcribed sweet enchanting song
of the lonely nightingale with pure verse,
I attend unruly ghoul of my heart
to compose divine hymn that transcends truth,
which expands, rather than converts, the mind.

With each eccentric verse of sentient spark,
I sing with mercurial voice of the wind,
my mind swells glow of consciousness beyond
bounds of acceptable theology
to enclose zillions of worlds teeming life
in unified matrix of the White Whole.

Transforming from fish of mindless desire
to observant human measuring objects
so I can analyze chemical process
of atoms that construct and destruct forms,
I evolve from hairless ape to wise god
who dreams entire bloom of the universe.

With tight-wrought verses of conceptual truth,
that wind coiled energy of psychic hope
to power time-machine of mental flight,
I record my quest to design world view
that helps me navigate hostility
in poems that map my brain ontology.

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Orpheus takes off his mask of ironic Jesus to see the demonic Grendel crouched in his heart with a smirk of knowingness.

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Until The Hour I Return
© Surazeus
2025 03 16

Until the hour I return from the Earth,
breaking free from the egg of humanhood,
my heart wears godless mask of singing stone
with dramatic stubbornness of the tree
that curls roots into body of my soul
so I can give each soul their secret name.

Until the hour I return from the sky,
swirling wild from glow cloud of consciousness,
my brain flashes clear ancient memories
that my ancestors live life after life
as we evolve from fish to mortal gods,
too sure of our superiority.

Until the hour I return from the stars,
beaming atoms into chemical coils,
my womb generates bold organic beings
who sing words to each other in fruit trees
as we transform cats to monkeys to humans
swarming around the Earth eight million years.

Until the hour I return from the sun,
animating robotic frames of flesh
with psychic energy of storm-fierce gods,
my legs will perambulate spinning globe
in curious exploration of our dreams
which I record in periplus of faith.

Until the hour I return from the sea,
sailing straight toward the Isle of Avalon,
my eyes perceive objective forms of matter
to measure subjective ideas of patterns
which I encode in language of wind song
to sing grand epic of humanity.

Until the hour I return from the hills,
striving to achieve the highest existence,
my breast inhales ethereal breath of light
to join global choir of eight billion voices
that echo in dark forest of our dreams
as we transform Wasteland to Wonderland.

Until the hour I return from the vales,
hiking mountain range sea to shining sea,
my body delights in forbidden pleasures
which alternates through extreme joy and pain
as we eat fruit and make love by the pool
that reflects our faces in yet-born children.

Until the hour I return from the grave,
rising on Phoenix wings from flaming seed,
my soul records ever-renewing quest
pursued by immortal soul of my genes
to map complete history of human life
on time-animated atlas of Earth.

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Orpheus and Cesar Vallejo drink wine at the Cafe de Flore and write poetry about their quest for eternal truth beyond political turmoil of the day.

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Phoenix Wings Of Faith
© Surazeus
2025 03 16

When Midas flies his golden planes of greed
in Twin Towers of business and government
to destroy our global democracy,
we rally round bright flag of Liberty
that shines with stars of civil rights for all
and march ten thousand miles in smoke of war.

Our long march in the wilderness of fear
seems, to our hopeful hearts of angry pain,
to last forever in struggle for freedom,
so our fight against tyranny seems lost,
but if we stay together in our cause
we will arrive in paradise at last.

Each eighty years in history of mankind
we fight against the tyrant in gold tower
who imprisons Rapunzel with his greed,
and, though we sometimes lose our noble fight,
and must endure monarchs too many years,
we always rise on Phoenix wings of faith.

I write this dispatch from my prison cell,
hands chained by oligarchs afraid of truth,
with spirit of great leaders in the past
who preached salvation of honest intent
from sunless underworld of misery
to encourage you with passion for freedom.

Though our great institutions, that stood long
as secure bulwark against poverty
contrived from ignorance of fearful minds,
have been destroyed by gang of oligarchs
to constrain our hopes as factory slaves,
we will build better government for all.

We gather in libraries, full of books
that recount epic tales of noble heroes
fighting for freedom and justice for all,
to keep their doors open for everyone
to learn about true history of our state
constructed by oligarchs on backs of slaves.

Yet working people, who unite their hearts
in unions to secure their civil rights
for safe conditions and well-deserved wage,
assemble round governing pyramid
of social hierarchy where the rich lounge
to support the leader who keeps them fed.

Our new towers of business and government
will rise from ruins of failed tyranny
when cosmic herald of United Nations
emerges strong on Phoenix wings of faith
to secure equal rights for every soul
who lives in Heaven of our spinning Earth.

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Orpheus, in jail cell with Maluki, Mandela, Walesa, and Havel, writes letters to encourage the people to keep up their fight against tyranny.

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Twisted Black Boughs
© Surazeus
2025 03 16

White apple blossoms on twisted black boughs
confuse my heart with ancient memories
that must have been experienced long ago
by nameless ancestors who must be mine
for all their memories program how I think,
so I merge them all into who I am.

Silver-sky light gleams in twisted black boughs
of hungry trees that try to reach the sky
with space-invading energy of hope
that flashes wordless visions in my mind
where I see people walking down the street
to go somewhere I am not going to.

I want to stop the woman with no face
as we pass each other by empty church
about the secret pleasures of her heart
so words she speaks may mold mask for her face
which I can signify with secret name
she shares in whisper from hidden desire.

While we sit together in sharp moonlight
I gaze at her face for ten thousand years
till every feature of her hidden heart
emerges from shadow as spoken hope
so now I see her face on everything,
even the moon that reflects her true soul.

I spend all day among the apple trees,
twisted black boughs lit bright by the gold sun,
tending each individual tree with care
to ensure upmost production of fruits
that softly explode from pores of my brain
so I become the tree of timeless faith.

Earth-bound with preference for the flowing stream
that carries all sorrow to the mute sea,
I till thick soil with energy of hope
to cherish apple trees that grow from graves
where my ancestors breathe the boundless sky
so we can dance among twisted black boughs

Instead of worms feeding on my dead soul
when my children bury me under trees
I want cheerful larks on twisted black boughs
to consume tattered fragments of my soul
and carry me among the swirling clouds
where I can become the freedom of flight.

But I wake again from dull dream of death
and sit with heavy heart of aging angst
beneath shelter of my twisted black boughs
till she brings hot apple pie from our home
for us to eat in the cool evening glow,
so I gaze at her strange face as she sings.

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Orpheus and Ophelia eat apple pie in the apple orchard where they have lived twenty-five years of marital bliss while raising children of their hearts.

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Never Take Us Home
© Surazeus
2025 03 15

Though I could try to believe anything
I prefer to measure reality
with objective words I steal from the moon
by speaking thoughts the trees breathe out as air
which translates firmament of crystal eyes
to furrowed fields where wheat sprouts from our skin.

Strange stories we bake in memory bread
contain sufficient formulas to cheat
how fast we drive on lonely country roads
that never take us home to that weird place
where we fool ourselves we may still belong
till radios scream conspiracy theories.

Regret for how my arrows pierce my back
blinds me to snide disdain of river stones
who declare with loud laughter of dark waves
that the world will end in both fire and ice
though we tell the old television set
why we want to drive to the waterfall.

Shocked in candle-lit room of oblivion,
I pretend I have never been awake
enough to taste the phosphorescent bulb
that floats above my castle built of sand
despite waves of distraction that confuse
people who think their dreams never come true.

Yet I will climb the ladder to the sky
so I can find palace of crystal eyes
where God sits on fake throne of dragon skulls
watching me bumble along my life path
with no direction home beyond the bus
till I fall asleep under apple boughs.

I refuse to rub strangeness from my sight
since I break the fragile plate of smeared ice
by talking to the bashful river naiad
whose star eyes magnify my mushroom mind
with vital flecks of hungry apple seeds
while I trace shadows of falling asleep.

This land of river vales was never mine
but I have always belonged to the land
wherever I have walked ten thousand years
so I possess the lonely apple tree
to earn salvation of the baptized clown
because I think I am the star-blind seer.

I find no salvation of holy truth
while walking signless road across the land
to build the shining city on the hill
that must be Camelot of glamored myths
where my ancestors danced each summer eve
to bind their bodies with red thread of fate.

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Orpheus drives the station wagon on the country road in West Virginia that takes him home to the place where he belongs.

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One With Sand Dunes
© Surazeus
2025 03 15

I become one with sand dunes by the sea
to face the empire warship off the coast
and chant with voice of wind to indicate
cry of the heart that people hide in words
for we are dream technicians of the mind
as holy vessels of the star-born soul.

We dance on sand dunes by the singing sea
to weave our spirits in matrix of light
so we can hold the bitter grief of loss
that blossoms from cracks in our mirror hearts
through resurrection of the holy word
as messengers of hope the Earth preserves.

Small particles of sand dunes form our souls
through chemical flash of congealing thoughts
that sparkle flares of soft electric words
when mothers create our bodies from wind
so we can dance and sing sorrow to joy
as wingless angels of the spinning globe.

Becoming one with sand dunes of the mind
we build bridges to connect virtual worlds
that shimmer in net of each human brain
when we translate songs of eyeless seers
to other languages our tongues express
as shamans leaping through the multiverse.

Awakening with sand dunes of dead stars,
I stretch my body from Earth to the sky
to feel the sun glow bright inside my heart
till I become first flash of the big bang
and remember flaring forth into suns
as planets that nurture organic gods.

Floating over sand dunes of divine breath,
I feel the sun strike the bell of my soul
which vibrates psychic spirit of the void
which flows and swirls through waves of particles
which spiral into planets blooming souls
as humans giving each other god names.

Assembling puzzle of sand dunes with words,
we code cultural ideas into memes
which replicate across landscapes of hope
when people translate shaman songs of tropes
to build Bridge of Remembrance between minds
as jesters mock mad kings on windy heaths.

We climb sand dunes where the moon meditates
since ghosts are absence of the ones we love
who haunt us with their voices in the wind
revealing how we transform from the sea
through beams of starlight in bipedal form
as fish evolving into singing gods.

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Orpheus climbs the sand dunes with Jerome Rothenberg and Cecilia Vicuna to chant shaman spells and become one with the Earth.

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Eagle Of Zeus
© Surazeus
2025 03 15

Fierce Eagle of Zeus, with valorous grace,
glides over vast maze of America
hunting for the tyrant with monstrous face
who hides his rage in cave of Attica,
then swoops to help Serpent Queen Melusine
who fights hate with dream-projecting machine.

Relaxed in ruins of the Parthenon,
eating lamb gyros with shepherds at dusk,
I watch ghost of my goddess on the lawn
dance in weird trance while she wears secret mask,
then sing hymn with the forlorn nightingale
till my ship comes in with storm-tattered sail.

Defending Melusine from harsh attack
so she can bathe in the perilous sea,
I convert Eagle of Zeus to our track
with divine honor of the cosmic key,
which helps us to open ancestral doors
and sell illusions at cathedral stores.

With Garthenstone brought from Arcadia
I build from ruins of our empire state
liberal republic of Zarathia
with capitalist game of the locked gate,
stage-managed by socialist principles
so we can overcome all obstacles.

Seeking Tree of Dreams in Bavaria,
where my grandmother bakes sweet apple pie,
I hide witch accused of hysteria
to protect her heart from the regal lie,
and tend her wounds with gentle loving care
though all she does is mumble spells and stare.

Escaping to lush Isle of Avalon
on Ship of Sorrows steered by Sisyphus,
I flee revolution in Babylon
taken over by Ozymandias
who appoints cruel Midas his puppet king
with mission to break every angel wing.

Leading refugees from Assyria
in wagon train across the bleak waste land,
we colonize lush vales of Scythia
to build paradise in the promised land,
but fight over who has the right to live
and who is generous with love to give.

Irrepressible urge to rule the world
twists the failed merchant into bitter king
who trembles in fear of the cosmic herald
soon to arrive on divine justice wing
to save our country from his tyranny
and restore our global democracy.

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Orpheus celebrates the Ides of March and the day of Saint Patrick who drove the evil soul-eater cult out of power and freed the people from tyranny.

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Our Mortality
© Surazeus
2025 03 14

Though stars shine on the stretch of snowy road
which I follow to the ends of the Earth,
I savor strange miracle of being alive
as conscious clump of random particles
that blink bright as the lonely traffic light
without concern for our mortality.

Though I smell odor of the evening rain
that opens portal to another world,
I walk through shadow of the humming oak
to gather acorns from the dusty road
so I can can hear people in the church sing
without concern for our mortality.

Though I walk backward up the abstract stairs
to analyze their function without form,
I understand new symbol of lost faith
contained in tulips in the fractured vase
which invade sorrow with beauty of pain
without concern for our mortality.

Though leaves float proudly on the flowing stream
with subtle lightness of the careful breeze,
I ask the mushroom toad with rainbow eyes
where all my faceless relatives have gone
who vanished at the screaming flash of dawn
without concern for our mortality.

Though time refracts in dreamless eyes of hope
delinquent signal of my pulsing soul,
I borrow naked innocence from Death,
pretending to be cloud in clumsy form
caught in rapid orbit of puzzling words
without concern for our mortality.

Though I want to play meadow bull of strength
who rules the world with haughty arrogance,
I feel more like the newly-hatched sea turtle
that races toward the moon inside the sea
then swims with awkward grace in tumbling waves
without concern for our mortality.

Though random shadows of the mountain lurk
on airplane wings above the holy world,
I carry bag of dirt from my hometown
while traveling west across houseless prairies
to heap it by the river where I die
without concern for our mortality.

Though we make angels in the sparkling snow
before bombs blow our homes to smithereens,
we write our stories in library books
that no one reads for twenty thousand years
so we catch stars in snowflakes of the mind
without concern for our mortality.

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Orpheus rearranges library books with the stories of our lives every day till Ungod becomes concerned about our mortality.

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Detention In Paradise
© Surazeus
2025 03 14

Dancing wild in rainbows of Crystal Henge
with wings of resurrection open wide,
I translate scream of the white butterfly
to every sad song sung by human voice
as witness to eternity of now,
then escape detention in paradise.

Our atoms tangle into psychic being
through sharp collisions of electric thoughts
that flash divine breath into spoken words
constructing vision of reality
as bright illusion glowing in my brain
to endure detention in paradise.

Electra wearing white dress and straw hat
gathers flowers of desire in lush meadow
beside narrow creek of ice-silver water,
and hums with pleasure of her beating heart
as she hears subtle voice of Lucifer
call her from detention in paradise.

Swift hawk of Jupiter on graceful wings
swoops over valley of the sparkling stream,
turning in the widening gyre of chaos
when center of the nation fails to hold
and looses anarchy upon the world
now trapped with detention in paradise.

I hide new revelation in my heart,
encoding secret of the coming change
in spell that mirrors Spirit of the World
which animates demonic force of good
in newborn Phoenix rising from the flames
to dispel detention in paradise.

The rough beast slouches now in the White House,
plotting to conquer the whole continent
from Greenland all the way to Panama,
uniting Empire of Zarathia
with laughing skull of Hamlet in the church
to expand detention in paradise.

Kwan Yin in silk gown twirls on round pool stone
with graceful elegance in flowing breeze
beside the flashing waterfall of faith
to give ripe peaches to the hungry world
when refugees flee from exploding bombs
that destroy detention in paradise.

While Kwan Yin gives peaches to everyone,
Electra plays enchanting violin
that wakes conceptual thunder in the sky
at second coming of Christ Lucifer
who stands tall in rainbows of Crystal Henge
to dismiss detention in paradise.

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Orpheus anoints Lucifer with dragon oil to reign as Christ over the new Golden Age of America.

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Broken Moon Of Fate
© Surazeus
2025 03 13

Through tributaries of the dream-time loop
I search for treasures of bountiful worlds
receding far down stream of timeless change
where sunrays of possibilities gleam
in tangled matrix of confusing facts
which I respool along reasonable tracks.

Sitting in sturdy boat of steam-bent planks,
I paddle along shimmering stream of hope
toward small orange sun low in gray misty sky
that sparks strange memory of timeless desire
for scent of firesmoke among rustling trees
that rises from crackling flames of regret.

When I see Sylphus lope around the hill
with yew bow and leather bag of long arrows
I call his name and offer bowl of stew
so he gives me three apples and mushrooms,
then eats stew of venison spiced with herbs
from wood bowl I carved with sharp jagged stone.

Gazing up at the broken moon of fate
that shimmers gold behind clouds of desire,
I ask Sylphus what he thinks the stars are,
so he explains that Pythagoras taught
stars are fountains of animating souls
that beam down to give bodies conscious life.

Just as we drift into shadows of sleep,
curled in fur cloaks beside the crackling fire,
Sylphus jumps to his feet and grabs his bow,
but the growling bear man with twisted club
hits his head hard, causing him to collapse,
stunned unconscious though I shake him and cry.

Pushing me down flat stretched out on my back,
the bear man laughs while gripping my wrists tight
that, though I rejected his marriage pact,
he will force me to bear child of his seed,
then tries to kiss me as I turn my face
and grunts to force his way inside my heart.

When he lets go one wrist to push my legs
open wide with cruel lascivious sneer,
I snatch bone-handle blade of sharpened bronze
from leather sheath on his belt with intent
to thrust sharp dagger straight into his chest,
so he screams in pain as blood gushes out.

After stabbing his heart with frantic thrusts,
I kneel beside Sylphus and call his name,
then gasp with joy when he opens his eyes,
but he jumps up and backs away from me,
shocked to see I am covered with blood,
and runs away as I cry in the dark.

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Orpheus finds the river nymph weeping by the corpse of the man she killed, so he helps her bury him and brings her water to clean her face.

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Children Wear My Face
© Surazeus
2025 03 13

Green flashing radar blinks its gargoyle eye
and beeps to indicate with pulsing point
existential threat to our normalcy
tangled with blues of tornado debris
sung by the blind seer on the busy street
whose mercurial voice haunts hot afternoons.

I will not let the world transcribe my life
with standard stereotype in plastic mask
when children wear my face on Halloween,
for my time on this spinning globe of dirt
may be intense with melancholy angst
but brief as flutter of butterfly wings.

Trapped in hungry state of barefoot resolve
with tattered hat of Huckleberry Finn,
I become someone else I never was
after thinking I should be who I am,
pliable sculpture of the headless god
bestowed with laurel of the thorny crown.

I shield my heart with books of faceless ghosts
which insures it is not available
for manipulation through social codes
which program how I navigate this life,
so where I end up falling over dead
is inconsequential to where I go.

When I find discarded on the sidewalk
random page from lost book of poetry,
I realize with wry grin of droll insight
the destination of this life we choose
has always been the farce of consequence
we fail to avoid when we change our life.

Tracing forms of objects my eyes perceive
which manifest changeless ideas of hope,
and climbing trees on rugged mountain slope
to understand ritual I play to grieve,
I gaze upon stone idol of my soul
which reflects weird beauty of the White Whole.

Each action I perform as human being,
composed of atoms swerving through the void,
transmits immortal spirit of my genes
compiled from flashing molecules of love
through each organic body I become
as I evolve from fish to wingless angel.

Spells I transmit in morse code of the heart
are indicator of my psychic state
through holding pattern of enlightenment
which I attain with wings of Icarus
when I strum lyre of Mercury and sing
before I crumble in my silent grave.

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Orpheus arranges torn fragments from pages of ancient stories in puzzle of perception to rediscover lost dreams of the dead.

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