Friday, October 6, 2023

The Queen's Sword

Slicing through the tangles of knotted hair

Selecting straying strands to chop off

Severing words with a mighty pen

Soaking the scars with brushstrokes of

Watercolors developed by

The Divine Artist

The Queen’s Sword

Her instrument of choice


The Spider weaves her web

Not to be torn asunder or endangered

By humans, amazed at her daily rituals

Her mystical arrangements 

Her lovely lines and beautiful shapes

Designed to capture her prey


We cut through the clues of

Personal sovereignty

Grasping for written instructions that

Fall from the handbook into raging waters

Re-membering by heart, recalling

The details for transformation


Splintering the myths of time

Clipping off the nodules formed

By dis-ease or despair

Paring down the fleshy skin

That hangs loosely to alter

Aging, distracting from 

The wisdom of her elderly Body


The Mystic creates and activates her Soul

In all its glory and amazement

This Soul who has been hiding for years

Wondering when we will come find her

Notice her, view her, bursting with joy

And some distress about how 

We live our human lives

Knowing we learn by trial and error

Sad that some mistakes are

So tragically and carelessly enacted


The Sword gleams in her golden sheath

Too risky to touch for fear of disaster

The Queen picks up the Blade

Beheading the withered traditions of old

Fostering new growth, sproutings where  

Antique authority has been removed


Watering and tending our gardens

Scythe and shovel alike

Mowing and partitioning off

The mature sections of grass from

The wild, ravenous weeds


We rejoice in throwing wildflower seeds 

Into breezes that hold them aloft

Until they land and anchor onto the earth

We water and nurture our plantings and

We mourn the losses of tradition knowing that

They had to be destroyed 

Before the new rains of hope and peace

Can wash over our sunny gardens along with 

New patterns of physics and

Sacred geometry, the quantum field


Where innocent lambs and tendrils

Wrap their arms and legs around

Each other while being born anew

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