Chalices and Incense
chalices and incense
pentacles and charms
light the candle
and toss the runes
Some think that ritual
that fair exotic spice
is the making of magic
and is bound in sound advice
But all these things are tools
not the place where magic is found
magic is creation
nothing hidden or profound
The painter, not brush, paint and canvas
is what makes a master work
When the pentacle is inscribed
and the last candle's lit
the runes are cast
and the work is wrought
It doesn't live on canvas
or on paper from a pen
It's not an epic poem
It's not a what, or even a when
It's the act of creation
in spirit
pure and raw
and the trappings of ritual
are less than a handful of straw
to make the magic work
takes nothing, just pure view
just the essence of knowing
staying centered
and being true
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City Goddess
City Goddess
I saw your divinity in the painted eyes
of a stoned street waif
I saw your fertility in China town’s alley
where a ten dollar hooker seven months pregnant
squatted to void her bladder
I saw your generosity in the hands of the white-haired lady
who sits on the park bench talking to herself
with bags of birdseed and cat food, peanuts and scraps.
Most people don’t see you at all
they turn their eyes away
They look for answers in scriptures
and daily, they pray
Other’s only find you in the woods
or in the smudged sanctity of incensed new age book stores
But you are here, and everywhere
Maiden
Mother
and crone
Raven Call
Dark bird of Poe’s dreams
whom the uninitiated
associate with darkest screams
You mind me of
my love
feathered fool
with eyes so bright
never there was such a dark night
that took upon itself
the glossy black
of your tail
The first people of this land
They know the truth
that you freed us from a clam
That you stole the moon
You may mimic me
with your clever tongue
and it would be well
For I mimic you
and have stolen your name
It was shiny
like your eyes
and I too, want to soar above the trees
and beneath the skies.
Mmmm...so delightfully visual. I feel like dancing around a fire now.
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