Lucas Prince of Cats
This is just so great!
Passing now this steady sphere,
Yesterday's silvered crescent
Reflects tomorrow's phantoms.
Denizens of hidden realms
Imploring with twilight cries,
Gaze above! Believe the lies!
We whisper in your slumber,
Inspiring lust and madness --
My phases drive blood and tides.
Beasts stir beneath my passing
Rising to recede again
And turn without revolving.
So measure nights and seasons
And shift according to form -
I liberate your wild soul.
When granted your illusions,
Dance now with full abandon
Atop the temples' ruins --
Only tonight shall we rise.
At Dawn the vapors resolve,
We'll glimpse the day with fresh eyes.
Moon has been so strong for me this few days (nights), can't help but respond to this. I like the way it expands from small distances/immediacy (yesterday, tomorrow) through phases to seasons. I feel I ought to recognise the temples... I am a little muddled between 'I' and 'we'. But mainly, I like this being so very atmospheric. And it has given me thoughts on the Moon card that hadn't occurred to me before!
Thanks for the feedback!
I was going for something atmospheric/impressionistic... one of the challenges in the format I've set for myself in these poems is being able to capture the right mood and tone along with the syntax and structure. I was very happy with how this one came out - I composed it during the Supermoon eclipse last night, and I hoped that just a little magic was able to seep in.
In other news, I've begun creating a social media presence for Seven Stations. Visit the Moon card on Tumblr at http://sevenstationstarot.tumblr.com/ , visit the Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/sevenstationstarot , search us out on Pinterest, and watch for new posts from me right on this thread.
Thanks for the feedback!
I was going for something atmospheric/impressionistic... one of the challenges in the format I've set for myself in these poems is being able to capture the right mood and tone along with the syntax and structure. I was very happy with how this one came out - I composed it during the Supermoon eclipse last night, and I hoped that just a little magic was able to seep in.
In other news, I've begun creating a social media presence for Seven Stations. Visit the Moon card on Tumblr at http://sevenstationstarot.tumblr.com/ , visit the Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/sevenstationstarot , search us out on Pinterest, and watch for new posts from me right on this thread.
Wow! I can't wade through this whole thread. I do have something to add, however, which may or may not have been mentioned earlier, but which I do not expect to be very popular. (What else is new? )
Tarot can be made to fit almost any organizational scheme. That is not a criticism of any such arrangement, but rather a testimony to Tarot's universality. If it were not so, then the random arrangement of cards in a spread would not be of any value for divination. (Now feel free to put me on your ignore list.)