The
smell of cinders and apples
the
smell of cinders and apples
midnight alphabet
seeking lost symbols and letters
yearning for your mouth
to satisfy each - our own mutual hunger
of an individual destination
you of the honeysuckle ascent
I of the dried plum descent
shackle the love - cage the lust - negate the romance
desire unbound - panic in the sky
our sanity rests far away in nests
among eggshells of broken tomorrows
but tonight - today - even tomorrow morning
I will celebrate every inch of you
as your white heat permeates the false light we live
the dark tropical heat between your thighs
matrix jazz in your hips
entwined so deep
where do I end? where do you begin?
the cosmic serpent feasting
on its own plumed celestial tail
there’s no maniacal amputee starship captain
trailing behind
us
let’s atomize into stardust
create the universe anew
unfold myth of our lost ages
midnight alphabet
seeking lost symbols and letters
yearning for your mouth
to satisfy each - our own mutual hunger
of an individual destination
you of the honeysuckle ascent
I of the dried plum descent
shackle the love - cage the lust - negate the romance
desire unbound - panic in the sky
our sanity rests far away in nests
among eggshells of broken tomorrows
but tonight - today - even tomorrow morning
I will celebrate every inch of you
as your white heat permeates the false light we live
the dark tropical heat between your thighs
matrix jazz in your hips
entwined so deep
where do I end? where do you begin?
the cosmic serpent feasting
on its own plumed celestial tail
there’s no maniacal amputee starship captain
trailing behind
us
let’s atomize into stardust
create the universe anew
unfold myth of our lost ages
Ouroboros and Unicursal Hexagram -- Kain Morganmeer
The ouroboros (Greek for "tail devourer") is one of the oldest mystical symbols in the world. It appeared as early as 1600 years BCE in Egypt as a symbol of the sun and represented the travels of the sun disk. It can be perceived as enveloping itself, where the past (the tail) appears to disappear but really moves into an inner domain or reality, vanishing from view but still existing. It symbolizes the cyclic nature of the universe (creation out of destruction, life out of death). The ouroboros eats its own tail to sustain its life, in an eternal cycle of renewal. It is sometimes depicted in a lemniscate shape (figure eight) as well. Gnostics and alchemists used the figure to symbolize cyclical natural life and the fusion of opposites. It also represents the transcendence of duality and was related to the solar god Abraxas, signifying eternity and the soul of the world. In alchemy, it represents the spirit of Mercury (the substance that permeates all matter) and symbolizes continuous renewal
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In Herman Melville's 1851 novel "Moby-Dick; or, The Whale" the plot is driven by monomaniacal Captain Ahab's vendetta against the white whale that devoured his leg. He is referred to as a "grand, ungodly, god-like man." In many ways the whale and the avenger mirror each other, ouroboros-like: They are both scarred or wounded, with a prominent brow, and are isolated, vengeful, stubborn, and quick to anger.