I Am Spirit

I am universe
spirit
a thoroughbred on fire

Vesuvius exploding
millenniums
of age old stories
told by firelight

dancing flames of mouths of ancestors
ring in my
external auditory meatus
creating intense magnetic fields
between both palms
placed upon ears

a circuit to free my thinking brain
from onslaught of data, technology, information,
fear, love, death, hate and all that exists
in divine ugliness and beauty

this universe encompasses
all that is, was, that will be
and I, human, here and now
am spirit

I am spirit, I say
and stand and scream
opening my lungs to this most holy sky
and it blazed like photogenic supernovas
across my inner eyelids
closed, sleeping, awake
my still small hands shake
beneath starry skies in eve

For I am spirit
in this shell
on this Earth,
existing in a Universe

as human. 


© Susan Marie 2010 

birth

"In this world, there are those who understand, even if they wish not to, who speak, when they wish to remain silent, those that listen, when they wish to scream, those that love, when they wish to turn their backs, those that hold your hand, and understand, that you . . . are still . . . being born." - Susan Marie

The Alchemist

Dear Magestic Panacea,

White Stone of the River
has embedded itself
within my quicksilver cardio plexus
plutonium solar sunrise

the Ansata cross
has branded my sternum

a stigmata of immortality

Sancti Spiritus,
bathe my body
in aqua vitae

the stone that burns with mercury,
chloride and arsenic

transmutates
cinnabar

male to female
life to death
art to alloy
perfume to dye
embalming of the dead


lead
        to
            gold


the base of self
is Buddha
a handmaiden to chemistry
dreams and fantasy
as Jung discovered
symbols replaced text
to collect

streams of (un)conciousness

the metal of Heaven
birthed five birds
to scribe
scriptures of life

do or die
die to live
cry the beak to bone
condone
rebirth
from wing to light

the ravens plight

the blackening begins
innerspace to spin
the swan
to sweet etheric flight

sailing sailing
the surface of the soul
just to be surprised
a peacocks cry
colors swirled
fanned to shift

opening self
to experience

the pelicans stab
own beak to chest
bloodlet to feed
embryonic creed

to ignite
a phoenix rise
spir-it alive
flawless and free
spanning heavens highest trees

simultaneous birth and death

rising rising from ashes
to rest
and renew the dead


lead
         to
              gold



© Susan Marie

stradavarius

sterling manipulation
four, seven, eight, twelve

strings

the luthier extends
harmonics on high
attenuated aside
fervid throes of empty deaths
final breaths

swan songs of the bordello

Antonio braced
wooden strips
to curve of hips

bracing acoustic kiss

an aria
'neath finger tips

spill me to sleep
euphonic Spanish Prince

plant thy lips
abreast my nape
finger each arc and bow

melodious

drape me in rosewood
maple and ebony

a cloak of resonance

eclipse your silent screams
beneath each vibrato
until i am taut
within your grip

culmination restricted

an Electric Lady's
lament
concordant

a celestial indulgence

as that of evanescence


© Susan Marie 

cirrus

Gods own finger
pointed westward
towards a silent city still life
where cirrus shields
of angelic gray matter
encapsulated
all of the wonders of creation
deep within their bosoms

it spread for miles
only seen by those of "knowing"
yet i saw the great golden thrush
of Gabriel and Michael
glinting swords of spirit sight
silver gilt tipped wings
age old wisdom

an orchestral psalm
alive
in my sky
your sky

my eyes bore witness
as if this were a dream
a paradigm
a mirror of my soul in sky
flat lined

for hours i gazed

Allah, so wondrous
your fiery belly is alight
with volcanic thrushes
so freely you give to me your heart
in palms of immense majestic acrylics

my sternum pulls forward
towards you, magnetic
as my head rests on two palms

before me
woman
man
universe

the great unknown
that i know
my sunset
here

your eyes

intoxicate.


© Susan Marie 2010

Issa

Among five bodies, translucent,
Issa took respite from Israel.
Crouching by rivers,
learning teachings, the great Buddha.

White priests present the caste
raising Vedas, simultaneous,
as Issa tilts his weary tuliped crown
in confusion.

"World-Soul, Manu, Creator,
is there no correlation between this
and everyman?"

"The beauty of life exists not in law and priests,
but in a teardrop, the iris of an eye.
From the first day and each second,
no idol nor beast shall be uplifted."

The Sun has no power of its own.

"The Wailing Wall resides beneath my sternum
alongside breath of beasts that attempt to feast my bones."

Through tongues and time passed,
words are as sand, a hand wiping slates clean.
Words through translation.

"Raise your chin to the skies, friend.
It is there your spirit lies, not beneath your feet, bare.

Your path is for you to discern,
I am but a tool.

You do not need to see my speech as truth.
Yet I have chosen to view you,
clear and lit, in pale moonlight.

Pure."


© Susan Marie

how do i explain

how do i explain
the sunset
when she drapes herself elegant
climbing through tree limbs
still green with summer
dappling brick buildings
causing brown to change to burnt sienna

how do i explain
a solitary leaf
each vein sprawling
as arteries and veins
spreading life
throughout one being

how do i explain
the rushing wind
as she kisses my cheeks
gracing my face
as the touch of an angel
on a summer's eve

how do i explain watching you
atop a mountain range
your stoic jawline
staring into infinity
your brown eyes
searching
in craggy embankments
trees, grass and dirt

how do i explain my love for you
this universe we share
this world
one and many
from past and beyond
present and future

it is how one would explain a science
of chemistry and emotion
all six senses alive and acute
stirring and spinning
as Autumn leaves unberthed from their rest

it is as difficult to explain my love for you
as simple as it is to love you
for it is all of man and woman, simultaneous

my love, your eyes
they recognize my own
as dirt knows grass
and water knows rock

your limbs are my legs
my tresses your leaves
your gaze my sunshine
my body, your breath

i do not need to explain
for you understand
but i can compare
all of nature and her beauty


within
inside
beneath
behind
above
inside

no matter where you may be

i am with you


©  Susan Marie 2010