Long, at last, The Vostok had pierced the darkness
and thrust Yuri into the firmament;
We leapt from spherical craft to the vault
of heaven, and waded ourselves in a bit
with legs new formed like a tadpole in morph.
Category Archives: Mythology Poetry
Calliope
Now rise to life again, sweet poetry!
She is chief among my muses this art.
Let Calliope go and sign her song
Her old wisdom knows not a passive note.
Apples
If I gaze at an apple
and smoke with a shaman
who plucks with bended knee
the apple red of famous mythology
All the World is a Common Thing
I woke in twilight’s magic hour,
between the pitch of night,
pulled down over the land and sky
The Hazel Tree – version 2
We do not know exactly what is believed
until the moment it is placed at feet,
there is either faeries at the bottom,
The Hazel Tree
With roots extending to the underworld
the hazel at the borders hides fairies,
and all creation is astir.