Have I Gone Mad, Heironymus?

if you can put a head to this strange tale
i’d be glad very glad to know it
i fell asleep and saw new eggs
flying with sails and propellers
if they were fragile they didn’t show it

i don’t walk on egg shells
how can i? they’re floating in the air
I didn’t care when i saw them there
there was something strange about it
redolent of sunny smiles

the night before was stranger still
full of piglets, flowers and silversmiths
dancing a quadrille, weaving under arches
as they pranced from place to place
underneath the stables

the first night of these three strange dreams
i saw an oak upon a hill alive with flickering lights
spreading along its branches
it shone against the sky
i felt alive, elated

and then it moved inside of me
illuminating arteries, rooted in my heart
a more beauteous thing i never saw
i sat myself beside my throbbing heart
admiring silver sparkles

if you can put a tale to this strange head
i’d be very glad to know it
i remember every detail but no words that I recall
it makes no sense at all to me
i only wonder if i show it

The Oak

where to go
when i am lost
i know i knew
it’s somewhere there,
beneath the oak

when the rain fell
though the leaves
i heard them splash
and felt refreshed,
shaded by tranquility

shelter still beneath the sun
green light filters
reaching branches high above
reaching always for the light

clear bright veins within the leaf
an open palm, resembling mine

In the Garden of the Gods

 

they are not far away, they are near

the old gods cry out to us

from beneath city streets

come closer, if you would hear

 

the moon is hidden in daylight

waiting to light the path of the night

in silvery tones and pearl

come closer, if you would hear

 

the trees whisper a constant prayer

the voice of the leaves, the dance of the branch

the breath of exchange that holds us all

come closer, if you would hear

 

the rivers run out, the veins of all life

the clouds pour down a blessing

the sea is the constantly beating heart

come closer, if you would hear

 

above the rooftops venus shines

the daidem, a star, entwined in her twilight hair

she sings the song of the life spark and the long dark

come closer, if you would hear

 

they are not far away, they are always here

the world is a garden for which we must care

before the old gods slip silent away

come closer, if you would hear