7464

Pilgrimage
[by S. David] [art by Dina Brodsky]

An ostrich
Walks down
A forested
A green path
It doesn’t
Belong there
But it is
Whose fantasy
Whose symbolism
Where can it
Stop plant itself
So that it won’t
See what it can’t
Accept and
How often
Do you feel
Out of place
A pretty world
Almost lush
And you know
You don’t
Belong
But
There you are
Anyway
On a pilgrimage
To find
Your place

28§ [Orig 11/29/08]

http://www.dinabrodsky.com/id75.html

7438

To Fly Free
[by S. David] [art by Dina Brodsky]

Not caged
Not trapped
Perched
Choosing
Memories
Wings beginning
To open
To spread
For the thought
Becomes heavy
Her picture
On the wall
Always seen
Beginning
To tire
To get old
Flexing
Time
Time soon
To fly free

20§ [Orig 11/13/08]

http://www.dinabrodsky.com/id75.html

6869
Broken
[by S. David] [art by Daniel Victor]

And the toy
It walked
It talked
And did silly
Things and
The youngling
Played and
Played let it
Do those things
Youth is gawky
Youth is clumsy
And the toy
Was broken
A tear a sigh
A keening sound
A mournful sound
And sadness
And the youngling
Knew pain inside
Though it tried
It could not
Fix its pet
Human being

23§ [Orig 3/06/08]

http://danielvictor.net/index2.htm

3604
Succubus [1]
[by S. David] [art by Daniel Victor]

I know where I’m
Headed according
To your lights
So do you mind
If I get in a
Little tonight
I need the ecstasy
Of the exhaustion
Of my body
My flesh
And since you’re
Not so interested
I’ll just have to
Call out from Hell
A succubus
She’ll take care
Of my needs
I’ll pay the bill
When I get there


19§ [Orig 6/27/05]

http://danielvictor.net/index2.htm

3247.1

La Beauté du Diable [1]
[by S. David] [art by Daniel Victor]

Dark
With flaming lips
And piercing stare
A haunting beauty
Of His own
A magnetism that
Causes men and
Both to stare and
Then mesmerized
They yield and
Kneel humbly
To the very Devil
Himself
Too few
Can withstand
His looks
His silky voice
His sly words
He is
After all
An Angel
Fallen yes
But an Angel
For all that

13§ [Orig 2/22/05]
24§ [Alt 12/20/09]

http://danielvictor.net/index2.htm

6312
Serene Demons
[by S. David] [art by Darcy Merante]

Well done
I say
Well done
And now
Take your rest
In the warmth
And the glow
Of the fires
Of Hell
You’ve given
The world above
A solid blow
And each of you
Contributed well

So they were told
So these demons
Rested so serene
In the bowels
Of Hell


19§ [Orig 9/23/07] http://www.darcymerante.com/

5034

The Death of the Lady’s Man 2
[by S. David] [art by Chuchumuru (Carlos Cortes)]

He was a rue
He was a rake
A Don Juan
A Casanova
Dashing magnetic
Energetic once
He approached
A woman she
Would could not
Leave him alone
He did not spend
Many nights alone
And a juggler
So many at once
Until he was found out
Until he was found
And now some of the
Many having compared
Lives celebrate like
The Baptist his head
Lies on a platter
Jealousy is a
Powerful emotion
Hate is another
They cloud reason
Though not vengeance


26§[Orig8/21/06]http://au.artmajeur.com/index.php?go=artworks/display_list_artworks&login=cortes

7522
The Moon Can Give Testimony Only
[by S. David] [art by Pari Ravan]

There were stories
There was a history
Now nothing
Only ruins
What had been
A house
A manor
Where the plain
Ran down
To the sea
Ruins
The moon knows
No one hears now
Nor even sees now
And the moon
Can give
Testimony
Only
To the night

19§ [Orig 12/30/08] http://www.pariravan.de/en/main.html

6529

Vast Universe
[by S. David] [art by Audrey Frank Anastasi]

What in the night
Frightens
Think
Of the world
So large
It appears
As you face it and
The immensity
Of night
The forest
Sounds
That haunt
That trick
The mind
Into fears
Of what
A clearing
In truth
All is relative
To the vast universe
This is
A small world
Yes to you
Large
To a mouse
Infinite

26§ [Orig 12/03/07] http://audreyanastasi.com/

6240

The Invisible Woman
[by S. David] [art by Julie Unruh]

Back and forth
And she chooses
What she will be
Crossing that bridge
Both ways and then
Was it a broken heart
Or something else
There was a change
Found herself feeling
Invisible to everyone
Else let’s not get
Into the psychology
Accept her
Determination
So now she’s ready
To play arsonist burn
Her bridges behind her
She can try

18§ [Orig 8/28/07]

http://www.julieunruh.org

1847 Mictlancihuatl [1]
[by S. David] [art by Arturo Macias]

Was I not born
To die
Again
And again
My bodies
Lie in
Become earth
And
Again
And again
My Spirit
Leaves
Returns
To the One
My Soul
Flies free
Again
And again
Returns
Rebirth
Another life
Another body
Awaits
Mictlancihuatl


24§ [Orig 8/07/03] http://www.zihrena.com/ixchelm/women.html

4255
Saga [part 1] 1
[by S. David] [art by Michael Cheval]

Attend! Hear! Obey!
Wyrd Sisters take up this decree!
Let Spirit animate flesh!
Let there be a new home
For this Soul!
Let it infuse a body!
Flood a mind!
Time and again
A new thread
In the tapestry
Another interweaving
Let this story commence
Let the saga continue

She haunts me still
She haunted me then
She haunts me now
This is a tale that
Does not will not
And perhaps cannot end
And we are both
Cursed to keep fragments
Of memories a scene
A cameo a moment
In time all interwoven
Into the linked tapestries
Of our Souls

From the high plains
Before the Sarasvati
Disappeared they came
And our first chapter
Was laid down she and I
And then across miles
And time our tale
Continues Pharonic Egypt
Many more centuries
The forests of Gaul
Again time now to
The North and Viking we
Still intersect interweave



39§ [Orig 12/02/05] http://chevalfineart.com/gallery/illusions/

7484
Practical Mythology 4
[by S. David] [art by Michael Cheval]

So he nodded off
Drifted into
Light sleep
And dreams
Raced through
His mind
Hurrying
Scurrying
Before he woke
And she came
Springing full
Grown
Like Athena
More like Sin
Appealing
Temping
In and of
Herself
To be worshipped
And he built
A world
Around her
Vested powers
In her
Powers over
Himself
Though he
Was walking
Among Gods
Walking to her
In adoration
Shameless
Adoration
And he fell
Forward
Before her
Worshipped
Awoke
Refreshed

39§ [Orig 12/10/08] http://chevalfineart.com/

3644

March of the Lonely Hearts [1]
[by S. David] [art by Michael Cheval]

Not I
But I play
For thee
In thy multitudes
That line
To dance
To my accordion’s
Sad music
For love is
On my lap
Her my arms
Surround
And the Gods approve
But thee
Thou lonely hearts
That dance
A march
Through this
World
This mansion
Of beauty
The Gods Willed
To us
Alone
This life
Alone
In line
One behind
Another
Alone

30§ [Orig 7/3/05] http://chevalfineart.com/

5648

Nocturne 5
[by S. David] [art by Michael Cheval]

And Fate is a joker
A teller of tales
A singer of songs
One in Three
Three in One
Which of the Sisters
Do you give
The name
Depends on what
You believe and
What you know
The Three sisters
Or the One
Whatever
Or Name Her
A Name
A title
A concept
But always
A ’She’
A puppeteer
If you will
What do we
What does she
Know of ‘Free Will’
Coincidence
Synchronicity
Lift your glass
Raise a toast
All dance to
The Piper’s tune
And strings that
Lead us our lives
To that dance and
Perhaps romance

35§ [Orig 2/20/07] http://chevalfineart.com/

6442

Inanna
[by S. David] [art by Josephine Maisonet]

Danger
Danger
Danger
Inanna’s
On the loose
On the prowl
Again
She’s looking
She’s hot
She’s the pickup
Queen
Inflaming
Men and boys
Goddess
Of lust
And war
She intoxicates
Men
To riot
To battle
She takes on
Entire armies
Takes in
The men
Each leaving
Satisfied
Each contributing
His seed
For a next
Generation
Of warriors

31§ [Orig 11/06/07] http://www.josephinemaisonet.com/html_pages/MythicalGoddesses/mythic.html

6959

Surfing the Third Rail
[by S. David] [art by Dennis W Bernhardt]

Play with danger
It’s sharp
Gets the blood
Flowing we say
The adrenalin
Pumping
And it takes
A fine balance
To keep from
Being dead
But what a thrill
Playing
On the third rail
Surfing
Balancing
Death
Cheating

17§ [Orig 3/31/08] http://www.bernhardtsculptor.com/figurative.php

6955

The Nerve System
[by S. David] [art by Logan Hicks]

So I’m down again
Here in the underbelly
Of the city the nerve
System and it was
Everyday the same
Thing back then
The Brighton to
The Canarsie line
And school high
School First Avenue
And my friends coming
From all over most
Getting off Union
Square molecules
Traveling to the brain
High school brain trust
And we earned it
Exciting the city number
One years of reputation
Traveling with white
Blue collar workers daily
But we were the brain
Trust of the nerve
System riding the train
The subway that made
New York one and
Number one

27§ [Orig 3/31/08] http://www.loganhicks.com/

7662

Drowned Cathedral
[by S. David] [art by Brigid Marlin]

Come let us go
Seek the time before
Time when man
Fully formed was
Young when the world
Was not as it is
The age before the age
Before the last
Ice age when
The very land was
Different before
The seas took
Into their bosom
A world that only
Legend now knows
Atlantis Mu and
The Mediterranean
Had not appeared
Great works by
The hand of man
Have since dis-
-appeared and Ys
Is no more
Still when the sun
Strikes the sea
At strange angles
Light is cast upon
The seabed
Passing through
Once windows
Of a drowned
Cathedral fish
Swim through
Works that time
Finally overcame

35§ [Orig 3/17/09] http://www.brigidmarlin.com/

7436

Ancient Future
[by S. David] [art by Olga Spiegel]

Have courage
Walk into
Your dreams
Coffee fueled
Exhausted sleep
Where buildings
Stutter
Porticos come
And stay
From days
You did
Not know
Elements
Suggested
By fantasies
Robots and
Strange biologies
And you look
Into your futures
Create passwords
To recall
Your dreams
The hell with
Sanity
You can live it
Days of
Ancient
Futures
Whatever
World
You choose

31§ [Orig 11/13/08] http://www.olgaspiegel.com/