O Rose quartz, she does know with her glittery show that it is by the mullein leaf wise where the mushrooms do grow. Murdered nights and slain days– O save me, dear Rose Quartz, by the river so wide And may the eagle fly free, not weighted down by you and me and out impossible […]
Category: poetry
Mystical Morn
Jerusalem I sing to you A song of longing A song of lament A song of ancestors yet to be born A song of crucifixions Still being carried out in your holy name. Jerusalem I sing to you of justice gone awry– Of sacred soil so sacrosanct crystallized into coarse, unleavened bread that crumbles and […]
Live Close to the Earth
Live simply, Live close to the earth; Enjoy life With all its mirth. Live high, Live close to the sky; Fly on eagle wings To where your desires do roam. Live close to your home, Live tight to your clan, Live without an ambitious plan, Live to enjoy the new dawn When the lone star […]
Now
I don’t want to carry your burdens anymore – Don’t give me your tired, your lost, those yearning to be free 0f them, I have no more needs I don’t want to carry your burdens anymore— Be gone, just let me be in my isolationist stupor in the pain to the known in the fear […]
Treasure
Hidden in the dew, unbidden and away from your daily new, a treasure enfolded in the now– its gift is nothing and it gives it all to you. From Skye Stephenson, Mystic Mourn: Poems (2015)
The Circle of Peace
The Circle of Peace Extends in infinite directions Wherever you look Whenever you sleep It resides in your baby’s cry And in your lover’s sigh It is infinitely wide And just as high Especially when you don’t go looking for it But rather embrace it just where you are Just as you are A shining […]
Turquoise Eagle Wings
Yesterday’s rhymes don’t work anymore — Don’t you know bro’ that we’re in another space another place. The river’s run dry The earth no longer touches the sky. Insides are out and my belly button’s shriveled and dried. Clouds of adamant fumes: The lights always burn — No refuge. No wonder they cry in the […]
