This Poem was Submitted By: Kevin R Shackley On Date: 2001-10-29 23:23:28 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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The Shaman

Crouching in the shadows of a rocky cliff overlooking creation, he closed his eyes, naked, face tattooed with the blood of ancestors, wearing a necless of their bones. Releasing a smokey blast through pierced nostrils, the shaman smiled... unaware. The nimbus herbal haze softly ascended, carried away on angel's wings, toward the heavens of silence. Massaged in sun rays, the cloudy collage took the form  of a ghostly horse. Aiming a spiraled horn, gleaming spurs of shooting stars, It galloped with the wind, to heed the conjurer's call. Atop his heavenly steed, the shaman soared over dream waves on driftwood through spiritual caves, upon whose walls are written the euphoric runes of nature's wisdom. In the distance, red glowing vapor swirling energetic pulses, churning behind a falling stream, becons. With a nebulous leap, gliding on the Milky Way, the Shaman disappeared. Into the crimson cloud, out of the third dimension... Here, atop this ledge, this earthen altar of meditation, I follow the shaman's creed. Walking across a clouded bridge, to set with the sun. Severing societies umbilical cord with an irie sword. So my soul flows with the cosmos...

Copyright © October 2001 Kevin R Shackley


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