Azoth’s Daughter

When your eyes hook to the morning star                           

still and shining, free from tears;                                          

sleep warm lungs slake the cold unfeeling air.                                

Untold thoughts of troubled dreams disperse                      

and the earth untrammelled by your feet awakes.              

And as your senses find their root in earth                          

The pretence of knowledge dies;                                         

you become the bride of nature  -the soul                           

formed dream, all true and understated.                              

Your voices stilled by heavens majesty.                              

And when you have gotten empty                                       

the worldly oyster smashed in search of pearl;                   

your body becomes the honeycomb chamber                    

for every seed bearing tree.                                                 

Your love a legion of unlimited power.                                 

And if your senses can remain alive                                    

To dissolve the last of human care,                                     

love weary worshipping truth is discovered                         

with every fish, fowl and bee;                                                           

in the wheel forming heavens of Hur.                                  

Truly the daughter of Azoth;

at one with the life giving earth,

shape shifting intangible air.

in marriage to the polygamous sea

aflame in the untouchable fire.

Spiritus Animatus!

The Rose that beggars Fantasy

Listen as you read!

My love what cheerless world asleep
in towered keeps and half-lit streets,
waking dream on sullen skies ridged grey;
Lay waste land and cause the grey weird sea
chill the heart of you and me?

What world awoken from dreams
of meadows, water mills, and painter’s scenes,
would tolerate the angered sky, the leaf shorn tree;
the frost that blights the first-born bud, above
the half-closed mist born eye of love?

Oath of God would life not be worth living
were love not rooted deep in giving?
Selfish worlds are drunk, dreaming fantasy;
such men are never found in sight
crossing borders of the Christos Light.

Soft rose whose petal fusing heart will give
attiring the sweetest heart to ever live,
deliverance in the dawning day will come
refusing the permanence of death, and arise
to prove the cause of all the living never dies.

©TonyAshenden