Quick #sevenling for #beltane

Poverty? We have a plan for that.
Environment? There’s a plan.
Disinformation? We’ll study that…

Discrimination? Heres the plan from last year.
Mental health? Here’s a brochure.
Violence? (Silence)

Enough maps, can we get to a destination?

#sevenling #vss365 #plan

The power pyramid
Seems immutable,
Pressure bearing down.

With violence at the top,
And creativity to cope,
For those at the bottom.

Kick out the bricks and see how long it stands.

#sevenling #vss365

Catastrophe is the real,
That feels unreal.
Before you meet that moment…

Its who you’ve been,
That will be how you react.
You may not know what to do…

…yet feel a strange euphoria within the peril.

#sevenling #vss365 #euphoria

We had become death.
A desert valley dotted with pockets of melted glass.
Radioactive, deeply buried… some was taken.

An old, rock shop, New Mexico desert.
I buy a tiny, brittle, piece of green glass,
Hold it in my hand.

The evidence of a man-made hell.
#sevenling #vss365

In this room,
The light beep of a machine,
Beats out to my lullaby.

She, a small angel,
Fights for the simple chance,
To be here on Earth.

Each breath sings to me of hope.

#sevenling #vss365 #lullaby

She was a good Catholic girl,
but tardy, back in the day.
Last out the door for mass,

when she realized she forgot
her requisite pillbox hat.
So, she grabbed a lace doily on the table,

and plopped it on her head... amen.

#sevenling #vss365 #lace

Merlyn waved his staff,
Wart became a rabbit,
and was quickly chased by a ravenous fox.

Wart plunged into a rabbit hole,
running in the deep dark, then lost.
For days he mapped the labyrinth, until he knew…

all rabbit holes are connected.

#sevenling #vss365 #rabbit_hole

It’s ‘naught to do with living nature,
wildly ordered in discrete forms,
each needful for all be.

It’s pyramidic systems of ordination,
polluted by the bended knee,
that
blind our view of the natural world crushed,

cloaked in the guise of the Natural Order of Things.

#sevenling #vss365 #cloak

Picture of a male bard or jester with a black and red puffy coat, black hair, red cap, smirk expression on his face. Playing a stringed instrument.

I am the Fool, the Fool is me.
I’ll cry your tears, or laugh your glee.
I’ll take your stripes, and you go free.

I was once your whipping boy.
My punishment gave you joy.
My contempt, you will never see,

but my rapier wit will ravage Thee.

#sevenling #vss365 #fool

I am the Keeper of the Silence.
First, I felt flattered to be told,
those things that weighs their hearts.

Now I know it’s the burden
of the scapegoat’s role.
They make sure that if I told,

I’d never be believed.

#sevenling #vss365 #silence

Doing the post-mortem on the project,
recriminating lore abut “quitting”
rears its ugly head.

My older, wiser self has clarity,
noticing, in this case,
it’s based on a lack of meaningful support.

Thus, a productive use of the Quit Card… darn it.

#sevenling #vss365 #quit

Sweet William glowered.
His reach was always short
of his mental grasp.

Was he paranoid,
thinking always they were
thwarting him?

Or was it just his persistent accusation… for effect?

#sevenling #vss365 #Sweet

Hands over my eyes,
“Guess who?”
said a completely unrecognizable voice

“Gail? Marie? Jennifer?”
The hands moved away as I turned around.
“I can’t remember,” said the stranger.

“I hoped you’d tell me.”

#sevenling #vss365 #Guess

The Question.
The “Quest I Own.”
It’s a creator’s impetus.

The Answer.
The “… And Swear.”
Attesting to the current state of the quest.

Based on the answer, what is the next question?

#sevenling #vss365 #question

It takes fresh eyes to observe
this grove,
to see it more fully, as it is.
At the trailhead, stand a long moment in stillness.

As you walk between two trees,
they become the doorway
to a realm of natural delight.

Walk as a creature that belongs.

#sevenling #vss365 #delight

Painting with rainbow colors and ink-drawn lines and circles.

I shouldn’t make them
the way I do, resolutions,
that are made to be broken.

What I need is to be resolute,
taking a path where the end
will be seen,
as sure as the first step taken…

‘til the year’s wheel turns again.

#Sevenling #vss365 #Resolution

Picture of an overcast sky with a row of trees at the back of a grassy field.

Discovery in the final month,
reveals a situation
setting the game of this following year.

The best or worst of times feels like being
trapped inside the hourglass,
slipping on falling sand.

Promoted by the year’s turning, I’m resolute to endure.

#sevenling #vss365 #promot

It’s a crack, a fault line made manifest.
Shoved together, not blended,
It won’t take much to break.

It’s a schism, they run to either side.
Remembering all their differences,
Refusing loyalty tests.

The crack, the schism, becomes the chasm, irreconcilable.

#sevenling #vss365 #schism

In a violet sky, over orange mountains,
three disparate moons keep their vigil.
Scant stars are sprinkled in their wake.

This is where the war isn’t.
A planet not wanted.
I’m marooned, but at peace.

If I don’t think of yesterday, or tomorrow, this is idyllic.

#sevenling #vss365 #idyllic

Daughter of RA, made of light and lightness,
Ma’at, she comes to the scales,
Her feather the measure of truth.

Speak truth, and be unburdened.
Walk truth, and the way is clear.
Be truth, and you embody light.

With such a heart, you go to a place of peace.

#sevenling #vss365 #feather

Painting sailboat on a purple sea with flock of birds in the sky.

To canvas, mast and spar,
polished, glistening in the fading light,
all left to fate, under capricious skies.

I searched the depths of the blue below
for some glimmer of your eyes,
hoping the laughing waves might sing of you.

And you’ll know my heart… someday.

#sevenling #vss365 #glisten

I call upon thee, O Muses Nine,
that by the fletcher’s artifice,
make of my pen, an arrow.

Make the quill feather, an arrow’s guide.
Make the nib, the pointing bite.
Give my spirit the strength to pull.

So that my intent draws true, that finds it’s vital mark.

#sevenling #poem #poetry

Calm… after the morning flurry.
Nobody needs me for awhile.
Just now, I need myself.

#Tranquility…
It’s my posture for surfing the “innernet.”
An impromptu Adagio flows out from rain and outdoor chimes

Serenity… above, below, centered… without, within, onefinity.

#sevenling #vss365

Dad “rassled” with my younger brother.
I wanted to play, too, but was told it wasn’t proper.
I’m a girl who will get breasts someday… I was seven.

I felt this “glass dome” come over me;
An invisible shield to Protect me,
To Keep my #Purity.

I was both set aside and captive.

#sevenling #vss365

Meticulously, the parsimonious Étienne,
cuts the curves…
precise as his sums.

Of modest means, she thought herself royal;
her silhouette, meant as a bridal advert.
He cuts her down into a mortal shadow.

By his arts, he calculates on how to make the shade his wife.

#sevenling #vss365 #silhouette

“So he saw her there,
and thought she’d kicked the bucket.
So he drank all the poison.

She woke up and freaked out,
So she took his Happy Daggar
And stabbed herself.”

A “Romeo and Juliet” paraphrase by amateur dramatics.

#sevenling #vss365 #drama

In ‘79, after 3 years practice,
on that solo #challenge contest
I was doomed from the start.

He, who only wanted boys in the band,
was on the judges stand. I knew,
second place was all he’d let me do.

Girl saxophonist, a mythical "unique horn," unacknowledged in that scene.

#sevenling #vss365

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a lake with land and trees across the water and a low sun.

Of the shadow drama within,
demanding I pay attention,
I need not react, just take a breath…

Of the shadow drama without,
demanding I pay attention,
I need not react,
just take a breath…

So I may respond from the liminal threshold of peace, within and without.

#sevenling
#vss365 #threshold

Aeons, etherics, angels,
and
the watchers of the human iteration,
observe our nascent kind.

Sworn to that directive carved
into
the fused glass of a thousand dead worlds…
Yet, our peril compels intervention from those,

whose apotheosis is their descent.

#sevenling #vss365 #descent