Subliminal
To weave the blessed singularities of a woman.
Read the book of shadows,
when sadnesses besiege you,
make art from the dying of the light,
when you are terrified, late, late at night.
Look so-deep into the blackness,
at the heart of second sight,
see yourself mirrored
in the declining light
of your sleeping child's eyes.
When you enter here:
Abandon all disguise.
.......
Rising in this ghost-air,
Tinglings on your skin.
Let the fullness of the day
Begin.
Again.
Gather all you have together .
then give your life away.
Look! the witches and the wizards of the Wicca all at play
see them on the greensward
tumbling together,
where the oak tree's all aflicker,
and the pentangle's aflame
in this sultry summer weather;
the crescent moon has risen
magic's just the same:
Venus is the goddess,
Aphrodite born of Zeus,
Watch the warp and the weft
Of our weaving web of time
Curve us into this wormhole
Of a closing line.
Devon Brock
Sun 30th Jun 2019 10:04
John, the many references to great poems woven seamlessly and without affectation. Great stuff.
D