The Hermit’s Hymns

Posted: 22/01/2016 by vequinox in Literature

The Champagne Epicurean

I

I love nothing more than love that speaks not.

To love is silence broken – scent of rot.

In silence one hears the music of the spheres

In solitude thoughts are the only seers.

Show me a walled cave and I’ll show you

A new constellation with a winged view.

Supernovas, stars, swirling nebulae,

Glimpses of knowledge waiting to pupate;

But dare to love and submit, and silence

Will cloud the skies with ignorant incense.

And dare you let a single flower bloom

Without listening to its petal’s croon?

II

Stars like trees, trees like stars, waves without sea

Capers creeping crawling through bastion’s seam,

Ancient angels refusing to exist

Time-worn devils too idle to resist.

These scenes are I all I have ever dare known

For I was born with no old place to go.

I was born with the world mapped in my sight,

And every man’s…

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