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/

7707

Genevieve
[by S. David] [art by Lauren Mills]

Will you
Miss me
Darling
In fall
As the chill
Begins
In winter
When you
Sleep alone
In spring
As life
Begins again
Will you
Miss me
Darling
For I’m leaving
Now a far
Shore calls
Will you
Miss me

20§ [Orig 4/21/09] http://www.laurenmillsart.com/

7689

The Monk’s Torments
[by S. David] [art by Olivier Zappelli]

Memories
The Lord
Death women
And more
Hold witness
Against you
And they
Haunt you
Taunt you
And you
Can’t run
They ‘re there
Part of you
So you wake
And you had
Dreamed one or
Another or
More and
You can’t
Juggle your way
Out so you
Sweat
Still
They are
Now daylight
And still
They are
Before your
Eyes torment
Torment
You turn
To self
Flagellation
And still
No
Now what

36§ [Orig 4/07/09] http://www.zappelli.ch/page22/page22.html

5273

Angels on my Shoulders 2
[by S. David] [art by Miguel Tio]

Really they’re there
Worse than the ghosts
That sometimes haunt me
Now I have to deal with
Angels of the Light
And of the Dark my choice
They say I must chose
But I don’t want to
I want to let things be
And for a change be
Passive receptive be
Acted upon not the one
That takes the lead
Let it be her not me
A relationship what else
I’m tired of pushing and
I’m trying to convince
These angels to stop
Harassing me let the
Woman choose
This time go away
I don’t need these
Angels on my shoulders


21§ [Orig 10/29/06] http://www.migueltio.com/English/Home%20page%20English/Home%20page%20English.htm

7598

Haunted Room
[by S. David] [art by Miguel Tio]

Trusting
A promise is
A promise and
His word
He always kept
And so
She believed
And so
She waited
And so
She grew old
Awaiting
His return
Dead
He died
In the war
She never
Heard
She was not
Next of Kin
And they
Never knew
About her
And so
She sits
Waiting
Dead
Long ago
Still
She sits
Waiting

31§ [Orig 2/03/09] http://www.migueltio.com/English/Home%20page%20English/Home%20page%20English.htm

7570

Return of the Cheshire Cat
[by S. David] [art by Frank Krasicki]

Last seen
Leaving its smile
Behind
After posing
Questions of
Ill-repute
Philosophizing
On living life
Why not fantasy
But now behold
The Dreamer
Dreams again
On the road again
The road goes on
Again
To when to where
And there in space
In a new place
Without trees
The air shimmers
A glimmer of
Sparkling
White flashes
And a smile
Is born reborn
In the air
Though
Nothing is there
But teeth meet
Lips appear
Drawn up into
The notorious
The glorious
Smile we
Remembered

35§ [Orig 1/23/09] http://arttube.blogspot.com/ See Frank's Feb 15, 2009 post for his comments on the poem

7638

Metamorphose
[by S. David] [art by Beatrice Burel]

Change
Growth
Perhaps
Just perhaps
Maturity
Sharp edges
Once so
Present
Once so
Prevalent
Slowly
Dissolving
Disappearing
A logic
A consistency
Is demanding
Recognition
Acceptance
Superiority
Control
And she did
Not like
The way
Her life was
Spinning
Out of
Non-control
She found
Herself
Actually
Planning
For her future

32§ [Orig 2/28/09] http://www.beatriceburel.com/

5776

World Gone Wrong
[by S. David] [art by Joel Carpenter]

I looked at her
And I knew
So wounded
Her entire world
Gone wrong
It was written
In how she
Carried herself
It was written
On her face
She wasn’t a loser
She had lost
I watched a dude
Pick her up
No surprise there

15§ [Orig 3/27/07]http://www.brooklynartproject.com/profile/JoelCarpenter

5328

The Trip of Infinite Steps 1
[by S. David] [art by Maria de Echevarria]

To be that which
You wish to be
A long journey
And the path is
Not always straight
Nor so narrow many
Branches many choices
Loom up in front of you

And she pressed
Forward upon
Her chosen road
No guideposts
Save from within
And every decision
She made she
Believed carried her
Onwards on her trip

She was so careful
Yet never seemed
To arrive where she
Thought her Path
Would lead though
Her steps were small
And infinitely many


24§ [Orig 11/15/06] http://www.mariadeechevarria.com/

1752

Me, Talking to Myself in a Ray of Light
[by S. David] [art by Richard Gins]

It finally happened
To me too.
Too many of my friends
Were
This way already,
But,
Now, it reached me too,
For I just can’t seem
To find someone with
A willing ear,
I mean someone, female, new.
The guys have heard it, know it,
Live it themselves, yeah, they’re
Doing it too, so they say.
Anyway,
It was a cloudy, funky
Kind of day,
I was standing outside,
Trying to figure it out,
Talk myself through,
Out loud, it seems.
Finally made some decisions
When,
Well, the Gods must have
Approved, the clouds
Parted a space and
If anyone had come along,
They’d have seen
Me, talking to myself
In a ray of light.


30§ [Orig 6/28/03] http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=creativityking&view=videos OR http://www.brooklynartproject.com/photo/photo/listForContributor?screenName=335v1tz48pteu

1468

Legs and a High Skirt
[by S. David] [art by Richard Gins]

She
Finally decided
She
Wasn’t as ugly as
She
Thought she was. Everybody says
She
Has great legs, a great body and
She’s
Good to look at, so
She’s
Taking the risk to show the world.
She’s
Coming out of her shell.
She’s
Put herself on display.
She’s
Actually having fun.
She’s
Enjoying the looks men give
Her.


21§ [Orig 2/02/03] http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=creativityking&view=videos OR http://www.brooklynartproject.com/photo/photo/listForContributor?screenName=335v1tz48pteu

29.2

Orange Juice and News
[by S. David]

We awoke to bright lit
Stark shadows cutting the ground.
Up the block,
Kids played on the street.

Across the orange juice-
Out of our window,
We watched them
Pause
To let cars go by.

We could almost feel the heat
And light
Hammering them
Into monuments
To the morning.

And then the day’s paper
Came.

She said, “But let’s go to the park.”

I said, “To watch people,
When the paper’s unread?”

She said, “Shall we always be so
Ritual?”

So I burnt the morning paper.


22§2[Orig 5/05/98] http://theskaldicsoul.com/