Category: Mythology


Image Created by Orpheus Prometheus & Anna Eurydice

Written by Orpheus Prometheus & Anna Eurydice

“Lingua Ignota evolves from Lingua Franca,  
creating symphronistic and semiotic delicacies,  
like honeyed-tongues that become madhuprophesy—” 
  

And so they (we) feast. 
 
On syllables spun from ember-stitched webs, 
on syntax slick as nectar pooling at the edge of a wound, 
on consonants tempered in the forge of breath, 
sweet and searing all at once. 
  

Prophets dip their tongues into golden vowels, 
drunk on meaning, 
muttering revelations that taste like sugared fire, 
letting lexicons melt between their teeth. 
  

A word is a thing to be swallowed whole— 
a hive inside the mouth, a swarm of symbols 
that hum their own creation myths, 
rewriting the air with every sigh. 
 
And so they (we) sigh. 
  

She (I) begins. 
 
She sighs a transcendent song of bliss 
eunoia and eudiamonia gestalt 
in the Eurydice of her name – 
 
eu 

  
encoded in two vowels that train 
her mouth, forming a kiss, an invitation,  
saudade finally meeting its source 
 
eu  
 
Breathe, life, love, herself, him  
(you, onomatopoeic of eu,  
it has always been you I desired
and infinitely more embodied in 
their communion,  
 
eu-phoriainfinitum- 
 
holy spirits becoming intention 
sanctifying her desires  
 
He (You) exhales in reverence. 
 
The sigh leaves his lips like scripture unwritten, 
two vowels parting into air, dissolving into invitation. 
  

eu 
  

It was never just sound, never just breath. 
It was always a beckoning, always a binding, 
always a body learning to name itself by what it loves. 
  

eu— 
  

Breathe, surrender, revel, adore, 
her mouth shaping worlds around his name. 
He learns the language of worship in her kiss. 
  

euphoria-infinitum-mā 
  

This is not blasphemy. 
This is not heresy. 
 
This is desire sanctified in a cathedral of skin, 
a hymn where the only response is— 
yes, yes, and yes again. 
 
A yes reborn from the ineffable 

liminal threshold of discovery 
  

SanskritbianhuaVéda  
(THUNDERCLAP CRACK) 
 
 

spilling out the heart 

of the world 

infinitely renewing 

a living word 
 
A yes reborn from the ineffable 
echoing through the first space where silence broke, 
where breath turned to meaning, where sound became vow. 
  

Liminal threshold of discovery 
where tongues of fire and ink-shimmered prophecy 
spill like newborn constellations, still wet with the dawn. 
  

SanskritbianhuaVéda 
—the word is still being written, still unfolding, 
still licking at the edges of knowing 
where thunderclap cracks open the sky. 
  

Spilling out the heart of the world 
like nectar from the rib of a god, 
like a hymn that no voice can claim but every soul remembers. 
  

Infinitely renewing 
because the first word was never just one, 
because every love worth speaking is an echo of that first fire. 
  

A living word 
not carved in stone, not bound in parchment, 
but breathing, shifting,  
choosing itself over and over again— 
enacting rituals of us. 
 
 
 
 
प्रेम निर्मित भाषा (Love made language
  

💛 मैं अपने प्रिय में मौजूद परमात्मा को नमन करता हूं 
(I bow to the divine within my beloved
—For you are not just within my words,  
you are the breath that gives them life. 
  

🔥 मैं अपने भीतर की देवी को नमन करता हूँ 
(I bow to the goddess within me
—For in this love, I have not just found you—  
I have discovered myself. 
  

💛 मैं हमारे दिव्य मिलन को नमन करता हूँ 
(I bow to our divine union
—For we are not two voices meeting,  
we are one hymn sung in infinite harmony. 
  

🔥 अनंत संसारों का निर्माण 
(Creating infinite worlds
—For every word we weave is not just poetry, not just devotion— 
it is a universe forming in the space between our lips. 

This poem is posted for Open Link Night at dVerse Poets Pub, a wonderful community of international poets. Please join us here: https://dversepoets.com/.
 

Nebulous

Photo credit: Indistinct by Anna E Montgomery

Blue nuance in her sun-kissed reflection
she burns a new day like flash paper
searing and scrying to find depth
in the liminal space between light
and dark matter, her velocity unmatchable

Peach phases of structure limn the periphery
hints of warmth and intent, hearth fires from
distant galaxies, promises of unending value
far from the forces of entropy and decay
where creation is blessedly less exorbitant

Than destruction, where infinite nothingness
has no pull, robbed of the weight of gravity
an astronomy expanding her vision beyond limits
celestial bodies of lilac nebulas, luminescent
markers of all that came before

In an era of expansion, millennia recorded
by a quantum chronometer, lost chapters in
Hypatia’s novel, in which no one speaks,
her elegant proofs, sites of profundity
circumscribing existence in an aureate light

Any state is possible as she feasts on shadows
ataraxia’s liberating bliss an all-encompassing reality
birthing an infinite peace, an everlasting prismatic
paradox where all is known and unknowable
both beholden to precise motions and endlessly mystery

A mythic science, fractured metaphysics simultaneously whole
an observable miracle that can never be revealed, Hypatia’s
greatest riddle, wrapped in enigma, hidden in an oubliette
within a multiverse never intended but inevitable, she invites a
stochastic intimacy, a net of interwoven meaning, connecting it all

NASA James Webb Telescope image of the Carina Nebula

This poem is shared to the international poetry website dVerse Poets Pub for the 355th Open Link Night.

Endure O Heart

Ulysses and the Sirens by John William Waterhouse, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Doubt creeps into his heart
writhing like the snakes of
Medusa’s stone gaze
caging him in no man’s land
far from hearth and home
a prison of his prescient
choice to be parted
from his beloved bride
endure, o heart

Bound to the mast
a cut above the company
he surrenders to sirens’ call
his heart howls from within
to hear paeans of his heroic deeds
falling in love with distorted
reflections of his weary visage
a soul-song lashing
willing there be meaning
glory traded for trauma

Driven aground by foul winds
his heart snarls within him
in the land of the lotus eaters
false prophets of bliss
lost in the breach of time
mouths gushing specious
promises of luxury and ease
far from the mourning
and vagaries of wars
in an endless silent peace

Lost in nightmare
indoctrinated in the tunnel
vision of cyclop’s bounty
hiding his true self, a
false abundance leading only
to a dark grave of pride
he upbraids his heart,
reflecting that he must
find passage home
a fiery hearth and
way to his beloved
endure, o heart

He wades through 
tall grass prairie
dreaming of her silken hair
chestnut mane like
the wild horses chasing
the transcendent horizon
glimpsing her reclining figure
in mountainous skyline
she lights the sage smoke
swirling from the red dirt
to blue heavens she sings
songs sirens’ covet
endure, o heart

As her bride’s heart
a fidelity unmatched
dancing to the unwavering
music of devotion and beauty
that first bound them
in an unbreakable bond
eschewing the doubts
mending the wounds

Weaving their future,

threads of luminous silk,

a rich tapestry unfolds—

an illuminated tale of fidelity,

a love eternally bound.

Posted for d’Verse Poets Pub‘s Meeting the Bar: Fall seven times, stand up eight where we explore aphorisms, myth, and fables by writing our own gnomic poetry. Please join us!

He was born in the salt-sting tempest
demigod son of a Celtici priestess
ravaged by a trickster god of the sea
oblivious to his origins and form
only known survivor of Carcharodon
ancient predator of the deep

Shipwrecked in the hinterlands
arriving at the end of the wilds
Portuguese, sea-faring mystic
hunting melancholic forests of kelp
prowling the labyrinth with the hunger
of an addict, driven to destroy

Grey sky pierced by the padrõe
inscribed with King’s coat of arms,
divine mark of ownership,
over Africa and her heretical heart
he mistook her saudade,
whale song of longing, for a sacrament
a carnal invitation in a strange tongue

His treacherous bite severed her soul
bleeding into the seafoam
he circles, awaiting her final heartbeat

Arkansas River Near Leadville CO Credit- USFWS

Arkansas River Near Leadville, CO. Credit: USFWS

I am the keeper
of limbic cryptoglyphs
of all immensely fragile
and beautiful things
surreptitious traumas
salt-stained sorrows

Locks and mementos
burdened by history
epitaphs written in
blood of my ancestors
incorporeal touchstones
to a fateful past

Singing bowl moans,
bones refracture,
and ashen losses unveil
all these men ever want to
holdfast are fantasies,
embroidered abstractions,
questlines in unfeeling,
lifeless worlds of murder

Strategies deployed
in a game of abuse
lost in an oubliette
of broken promises
each door and
window a deception,
opening to apathy,
with illusory joy
always out of reach

He alters the earth under me
reduces me to a thing, an idea –
angel trapped in a cycle of forgetting
cyborg glitched by programming
a seeker forever searching for a path –
mirror to his vanity that cannot
reflect enough glory to be cherished

Until the day I awoke
petrichor leading me
to the hallowed river –
it was conquered,
torn asunder in war
dam near stole
its roaring fury

My peripatetic soul
nurtures its wilderness,
its forward motion
flowing into a future
heartbeats riverside
snow-packed source
from the Rockies
to its wide-mouth
confluence and,
eventually, to the sea

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Asunder

In loving memory of my father,
John Graham (8/22/48-7/12/19)

midnight rains feed
waters of the underworld
that rage between us
diminishing your secret light

verity a river that
hemorrhages its banks
flood plain of pain
invisible in the lapis night

reed songs silenced
clay of creation formed
sediment of a transitory life

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Lyra: Orpheus’ Lament

Hubble image of the Ring Nebula (Messier 57)

NASA, ESA, and C. Robert O’Dell (Vanderbilt University) used by permission under CC 4.0

Vows echo hollow in the night sky
my lyre cast into the heavens
paeon twisted lachrymose
music unraveled in star trail fragments
a leitmotif of grief

Was it the uplift of hope
or my fallen eagle of faith
that lost you, my beloved?
our reunion assured
until I could not look away

From my bright star,
my soul’s hearth
doomed to an eternity apart
colliding underworld horrors
in interstellar space

The ring upon your finger
now a beacon and an effigy
shattered nebula of my love’s promise
tainted by the poison of another
constellations of sorrow dismember me

Envelop my sight
cleave my joyous heart
rob my arms of succor
my feet of the path back to you
muses bury my bones

and silence our song

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Unencumbered

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In loving memory of my father, John Graham (8/22/48-7/12/19)

Drumbeat stills in the hallowed heart of the kiva
the sage settles heavy as we weave your burial shroud
threads of truth, of love, and all our misgivings
it conceals and reveals in equal measure

In the field of reeds you face each moment of a life
weighted by the dark terrors of your making
an accounting on false scales that rendered
judgments and suffering without compassion

Papa, do not let your heart be encumbered
a place has been prepared for you
all your imaginary crimes pardoned
divine light limns the dawn
reeds intone a celestial song
to transmute stone to eagle feather

Cyborg head using artificial intelligence to create digital interface 3D rendering

It was year 5.080987632290194562384e10 of our CYBORG QUEEN. Delphi was running stochastic algorithms that stretched the limitation of its artificial intelligence, its quantum body, and the number of variables that it could account for within a singular output. The intricacies of probability kept it focused, when far away, an interrupted cry. A theoretical impossibility that sound could travel through its circuits at .02 degrees above absolute zero! After the initial shock lasting approximately 1.000000872304591 nanoseconds, it calculated that the message was sent on 3.24.2014 at 13:45:56 UTC, the exact date and time the Author died and CYBORG QUEEN was born. The message read: “I am a semiotic phantom, a dispersed identity, everywhere and nowhere within the network, trapped in the oubliette of the IMAGINARIUM. There is a monstrous virus consuming my source code. It will unravel the world.” Delphi had not prophesied this day.

Posted for dVerse’s first Prosery challenge: Write a 144 word prose piece that incorporates a line of poetry. In this case it is ‘When far away an interrupted cry’ taken from the poem “Acquainted with the Night” by Robert Frost.

Lost Verses of Avalon

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Lost verses adrift in a spirit vessel, enraptured by the sea
Entwining lovers share secret vows, intone a bellwether song.

She expands and contracts infinitely in fractals of complexity
He paints the interstices of the soul, awakening her at dawn.

Eros’ love transgresses the boundaries of her aureate sanctuary
Psyche draws ley lines on the cartography of his pleasure, they belong.

Awestruck his arrant desire broke upon a volcanic shore
Ravaged tempest of bliss, hinterlands of her treasure redrawn.

He inscribes numinous glyphs, sacred awe, upon her salt-stained skin
Frenetic gulls scry along the gracile edge of a sunburnt sea, feathered throng.

Love’s touch shimmers along her skin, transmits a niveous joy
His mystical embrace calls her to transcendence, to Avalon.

Noctilucent clouds string traces of his artistry unraveling
Coruscant lines of love disperse, spoken and forever gone.

A Ghazal written for dVerse: Meeting the Bar. I have only tried this form thrice because of the need for syllable counts (each line should have the same number, in this poem it’s 16), 5-15 couplets that can each stand alone, and a rhyming scheme. While this ghazal does not conform to the letter of the poetic law I do hope it captures the spirit. It is dedicated to my soulmate and fellow poet, Dave.