Tag Archives: word play
paranoia
Private moments
public
your illicit thoughts
my sins
universal slander.
– Leonov
Poem: PC
Well-intentioned efforts
ill-conceived
detoxify
the malignant semantic powers
of the term.
– Marya Ophir
Word play from The Manufacture of Madness
will to power
inexhaustible
formation and dissolution
feudal struggles
little kingdoms
dreams of empire
conflicts of proximity
nomadic herders
meet and slaughter
sedentary city dwellers
an interminable succession of wars
capture and carnage
extermination of population
destruction and pillage and plunder
ransom and slavery
deportation for the lucky.
– Marya Ophir
A little bit more word play from the introduction to Silk Road: Monks, Warriors & Merchants
road to iris
fire the imagination
a wave of travelers
well-off retired amateur devotees
young seekers of adventure
sporting ascetics
on foot, on bicycle, on horse
with or without companion
mystical of temperament
and bewitched by deserts
romantic dreamers
seekers of a bygone age
fleers of civilization
modern nomads
symbols of liberty.
– Marya Ophir
A slight bit of word play from the introduction to Silk Road: Monks, Warriors & Merchants
four directions
East is the sun.
It is red, sacred fire, blood, life,
and success.
West is the moon.
It is black, full of old souls,
and death.
North is the cold.
It is blue and purple, trouble
and defeat lay that way.
South is the warmth.
It is white, peace, happiness
and may you find yourself there.
– Marya Ophir
Hidden Shrine
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Suffused
with the golden glow of imagination
a scene of
stillness
solitariness
divine mind
steeped and transfigured
by the dream-like vision
of the fairest natural landscape
villages slumber
on calm water
lapped in a green hollow
Diana
lingers by the lonely shore
and haunts these woodlands wild
under precipitous cliffs
a small crater-like hallow
of the mountain side
where Nemi is perched
stands a scared grove
a sanctuary
a grim figure prowls
far into the night
sword drawn
priest
and murderer.
Some word play following from page 1 of sir James George Frazer’s The Golden Bough
