Triptych II: This Muted God

By purr_verse

Unmapped,
you have seen more than,
and more than...

Nobody knows your name.

Over a thousand years
:slip:
over a thousand years...
:streamed:

..pouring lushlayers of lichens, upon and upon
under and under
Thuringian coniferous magnificence, neverEnding
- sink deeper -
through stoic worlds of almost-fiction
as tendrilbent grey ghost trees
take the day
down,
shadow-wrapt in splendour and solace,
inspiration in peaceful pieces
of paranatural portals,
where ancient weatheredrock majesty
snarls
whispers
formidable audible imPossibly
real.

- believe in me -

Wildhearted fortress
stonewalled and ironworked
since Our Year 900
you have watched and waited
"welcome to my domain"
I touch your roughhewn mosskissed hallways
hungrily hoping to bleed your pasts
upon and upon
under and under
:bless:possess:caress: me
with thunderous memories
nobody seems to notice.

(always)
Nobody
(and never)
seems to notice.

never: forever

but I am Endless here;
above and above,
step under and under,
and i shall
forget
you
not.

- believe in me -

...

It must be hard
to be a town with a castle
in this magnificent land
of more famous
more grand
more painted
(more than and more than)
more.more.more.more towns
with castles.

tiny cobblestoned Elgersburg,
with your ferocious forest so visceral magnificent
that the mighty Schwarzwald
bows before it,
I am here to shatter your secret.
I am here to sing to your silence.
Let the company you keep -
your noisier neighbours screaming their histories,
where Goethe walked
and Buchenwald burned:
where Liszt...Hitler...
Schiller...Nietzsche...
Bach...Luther...more.more.more -
let them drink heavy of their limelight
and collapse tonight.
I am here to map your dragons.
I am here
to awaken your gods.


always and never, never: forever.

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Copyright 2004 Natalie Mills Lyndon
Published on Thursday, January 1, 2004.     Filed under: "Poetry"
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  • Solace On Monday, June 11, 2007, Solace (1069)By person wrote:

    Symbolic explosions - the secret city - reminiscent of only itself. Not pastism, nor nostalgia - but moreso quiet reverence for what was and is, observification from the discerning eye but more so than that: involved observance

  • Solace On Monday, June 11, 2007, Solace (1069)By person wrote:

    The town erupts - multiplicity - but singularity, for you become part of it - you are it...one bleeds into the other and the differences disappear...awakening the gods, mapping the dragons within and without

  • Solace On Monday, June 11, 2007, Solace (1069)By person wrote:

    time immemorial - to memorials - back to time immemorial - stepping into worlds of eternity, and the touch and the feel of solidity in such liquid memories that flow slip streaming along...

  • A former member wrote: "observification/involved observance/multiplicity" as said in Triptych 1 this is but an exemplary extension... (this is a Triptych I wish I wrote, but am very glad that Purr did - & I'm trying to forget the dedication w/ these thoughts as much as I apprec

  • A former member wrote: ...appreciate it). "flow slip streaming along..."

  • Anth On Tuesday, May 1, 2007, Anth (1133)By person wrote:

    this is like a favourite café in a foreign city. I remember the scents. I return to this write often. someone different always sits across. but with the same ethereal eyes

  • A former member wrote: "like a favourite café in a foreign city" Nice. It is a poem, like a painting, that is easy to read more than once and needs to...

  • A former member wrote: sort of something unlooked for, its like a thing which comes without calling, perturburbing, yet in exellence.

  • A former member wrote: shadow-wrapt in splendour and solace,inspiration in peaceful pieces of paranatural portals,where ancient weatheredrock majesty...this part truly moved me,

  • Anth On Sunday, May 30, 2004, Anth (1133)By person wrote:

    this is utterly astoudning in everyway,everyline just eclipsed my mind in shadowy imagery, the meanings thoughts and messages so deep and inspired portrayed in the most incredible poetic beauty

  • A former member wrote: 'always and never, never: forever.' forever...your words have awakened gods within me, the goddess you are ... like scales from Bach more... always back for more...above and above...

  • purr_verse On Thursday, March 18, 2004, purr_verse (1059)By person wrote:

    ..thank you...so truly, absolutely... and, oh, thank you is never really enough... *sigh* (I was looking at my Elgersburg pics recently; i still can't believe it's not famous... it's magic...)

  • Alanarchy On Thursday, January 1, 2004, Alanarchy (1200)By person wrote:

    So surreal. Utterly beautiful. I'm stunned. Gorgous work.

  • A former member wrote: 'as tendrilbent grey ghost trees take the day down' I can barely breathe. 'I touch your roughhewn mosskissed hallways hungrily hoping to bleed your pasts' in need of a dangerous kiss...perfect...

  • A former member wrote: 'with your ferocious forest so visceral magnificent that the mighty Schwarzwald bows before it, I am here to shatter your secret.' So black, as this forest is, as this poem breathes the dust of ancient memories...

  • A former member wrote: 'always and never, never: forever.' (merci) the flow within the inversed rhythms, superb, perfect, magnificent...always forever now...


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