When motors and thunders assumed suggestion
and mortality was presented as something modest
We went down to the shores of infancy
trying to avoid our lunacy
Enter once more the broken dream
everything might be soft and tender
but moonshine danger waits
dragons lead the epic hunt!
Ancient Phoenix
risen from the flames
they would not believe
but lo, there it is
I am the Phoenix
guardian of the human keep
A golden rune
to pledge in sounds
Why do you circle around me?
Why do you plan to pursue me with your words?
Blooded snow in strange appraised moonlit beaches
Can you still plunder the winter night with out them?
Sit up night hours looking through the broken window
your eyesight reaches for a star
beckons you to go that far
can you follow it?
Do you dare?
.....
You wonna hear my story?
It's not a pleasant one.....
I am the Phoenix
burned and sacrificed in human altars
born to die
never to fly
a bird that means
and never talks
Firebird!
Firebird!
Will you save me from this place?
Haunted people claim my place
ghosts of unknown eras are loose
Can you please get me to my island?
Prefer to lie alone
then wounded again
an arrow broke the hearts of men
The Phoenix killed the Sphinx
yet they forced him to marry his mother
No...no...you have to learn mythology to find it out
"Greetings stranger, come closer..tell me
which animal walks on four feet when it's born
then on two when he is older
and before he dies walks on three?"
Ancient and wise
friend of mine
you speak in dreams
you dream in living
Will you set me free?
I beg you...
I hate this world...
I adore this kind...
I am this land
Will you swallow once again
the anger of eons
and replace it with madness?
Why the hell do you write this shit?
Nobody listens to the winds anymore
nobody decodes the whispers of silence
Civilized Barbarians
Barbarian civilized ones
they...killed me with their words...
She left me all alone
to sit on a rock,
mage of fire
traveler of time
thoughts storm
guard in garrison...
Do you also want to play?
Just another toy...
Am I?
Play with strings
cut me in two
better make it
seventy-two
Laugh when I cry
and feel bad when I rest
Torture, should be my fate?
And misery and darkness?
Take it all away with a single word...?
Tell me oh dear hypocrites
will you still laugh when I am gone?
Time is flowing out from me
like sand from the hand
no matter how hard the grip.
I am dying day by day
Lies and deceive
occasionally innocent
the land is not mine to destroy...
Who is my death...?
Me or myself?
Doubt my regrets
reoccurring my lierealizing my fake tragedy
Beseeched my understanding
I will ride my Pegasus once more
doubt the gods and kill the Chimera
and you my gods will bolt me down
Phoenix has fallen you will rejoice
And now before I sign off
here is the mystery of the opal-blue sold out beast
extend my pretentious fire tongue to cut it out
Smile...and conclude
you killed me with a word...
Phoenix is burning in the blue fire of death
"I know you love me to talk this way
I hope no one sees this message written
in the calm far-out languid afternoon"**
"Burn the wizard, burn the bastard dog
Rip his heart out and nail it on a stick..."
Yes people do that...
at least it will stop bleeding from inside...
The heart of stone which was never touched
Now cracked and started to bleed
And now I have to go...
hide under the blue-black velvet
put my face on the pillow
and cry...
and cry...
and cry...
and cry...
"Judge, Judge, Judge, Judge
The man is not wanted here...."**
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**Abstracts from JDM's American Poet...
