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creating new worlds, Crowley, cyclical reality, Egyptian mythology, Elaine Stirling, Emerald Tablets, form poetry, Hermes Trismegistus, ibis god, Medieval French verse, Mercury, new mythology, philosopher's stone, seeing beyond, tarot, Thoth, transformation, transmutation, triolet
I
No matter how I lay the cards
they say, you cannot stay.
Too much of you strains backwards,
no matter how I lay the cards.
We all reap just and infinite rewards,
but you in retrograde prefer to play.
No matter how I lay the cards
they say you cannot stay.
II
As millstones go, your words grind fine
to dust a certain kind of grain
too bittersweet for tastes like mine.
As millstones go, your words grind fine
the coarser thoughts unwilling to refine
within the convoluting husks of pain.
As millstones go, your words grind fine
to dust a certain kind of grain.
III
It’s time to wade beyond these reeds
and spongy ground to open sea
where fisher king, unwounded, feeds.
It’s time to wade beyond these reeds
and heed the author-god of creeds
whose beaded net pulls in new mastery.
It’s time to wade beyond these reeds
and spongy ground to open sea.
IV
Through flights of joy I catch a glimpse
of all that you’ve expanded and become
enough that I am ever more convinced
through flights of joy I catch a glimpse
upon the beach a set of prints
that lead to you, full standing in the sun
through flights of joy I catch a glimpse
of all that you’ve expanded and become.
~~~
© Elaine Stirling, 2013
Oceantics 
Here’s to discerning those footprints – and connecting with the inspired energy to walk into that sunlight. (And would it be pushing the river to desire it sooner rather than later?!)
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The cool thing is, you can step into any place on the river, and the river pushes you. It’s from the banks we go nowhere…(I’ll bet you saw that metaphor coming.) 😉
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The coolest thing is, we are the river.
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Yes, that is the coolest thing, Mikels.
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