My Immortal Black Shines
I prayed as a mortal girl, tread mire
looking for peace, as I consumed
the inside flesh of my burning home.
I kneel as a woman trembling before my pyre,
my naked bones resurrected, my soul’s nimbus glows,
my Phoenix rose to restore my faith,
a mosaic of talons and golden layers of silent thrones.
It is an uncharted epitome to uncover change,
universal bonfires leaving me with a conquest of cinders,
cool water follows and continues to cleanse,
an earnest path that has taken me to a heavenly you.
TJK
I like the visuals in this...I can see the phoenix rising and the cleansing water running clear.
ReplyDeletecool mysticism in this...love the kneeling..consumation in fire the resurrection of bones....a conquest of cinders...yet the cleansing water....as long as it ends with them...eh? smiles.
ReplyDeletestrong and erudite - I envision the purity after the fire as though the dross has been consumed.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter is at art school in Philly - small world.
I like the title of this...while reading it, the image of a sorceress making a transformation popped into my head...nicely done.
ReplyDeleteI love the images of fire and water, and especially of the phoonix. Beautiful words.
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