Night
© Melissa Glisan
Over the
hills and far away,
where
Midnight’s creatures dance and play.
Shadow
trees hide bright fairy rings,
made of
toad stools and other things.
The dark
conceals a small satyr,
who when
waked…I’ll tell you later.
Look over
there - what could it be,
sparkling
lights on the deep dark sea?
Eyes!
Be they undine or mermaid?
Know you
the truth, both must be paid.
To the
path! Follow high or low?
Specks
of fox light point where to go.
Remember
dear, all isn’t light.
Darkness
hides more creatures of night.
Crimson
splashes land on the ground,
some here,
some there. Look, all around.
A red
rush flows from the throat’s well.
Vampires,
werewolves, we can’t tell.
Snap!
Then a pop come from o’er there.
Who could
be ‘neath all that white hair?
Tending
her wash on the river…
Run fast!
Or to her song shiver!
Follow
me, quick! Let’s run-away
Ere we
get stolen by dark fey.
One last
stop, the last one you’ll see,
to meet
a demon so shapely.
A whippoorwill
moans in dread fear,
cold wails
of death hearken quite near.
Don’t
hide, but watch for at the sound
appears
a haze of ghosts all ‘round.
Now is
the hour witches dread,
as they
spin tales to ease the dead.
Hearken!
There be laws to abide;
whether
you roam day or Nightside.
Pay the
ankou two silver pence
or be
lost behind Charon’s fence.
Sleep
claim us now, indulge in yawn,
greeting
us now is rosy Dawn.
© Melissa Glisan
Syphaerit
© Melissa Glisan
A valueless value
eternal ebbing void
to surpass horizons.
Vaulted echoes without return
that cannot be fathomed
thus must not exist.
Without existence
there is no place contains it
here or in the sainted heaven.
Reduced to a cypher
but a cipher is naught,
so as we are taught.
Solve for me calculus
do add and then divide
find wherein it resides.
Estimate the secret
hidden code woven
within the web of eternity.
Discover the forbidden language
unlock doors of knowledge
of life beget creation.
Be it all as one
or, be that one be none,
the math of nonentity.
Nothingness that
shatters the veil of
perceived divinity.
Delve by intuition
the overarch of this crust,
existence is Syphaerit…
Which ever remains - reduced
to a cypher
and that is
the answer.
© Melissa Glisan