Oak Gnome

Leaf art courtesy of the majestic oaks dwelling on my backyard 

REVEALING DARKNESS

The night rages in silence

Bringing division in sharp relief

For the darkness reveals the true

Under blinding sun I have hidden

For day blurs colors into gray

In full light we all seem fair

~~Thy Daughter, A.G. Muilenburg

DESTINY

Destiny's winds are desolation

Mournful her song for mortals

Few can truly follow her banner

Yet her tide carries us all

~~Feral Goddess, A. G. Muilenburg

SUNDERING OF THE FABLED STONES

In sacred earth we lay singing
Our hearts twined two in one
The earth’s bones crooned to us
Fabled knowledge of our ancestors
Neither dark nor light did we grasp
For sacred loam was all encompassing
Eons passed, nestled with our brethren
The power of the earth’s foundations
A comforting mantle in which to dream
Then time began in terrifying forces
That painfully ripped us forth
From loamy bosom to shrieking space
Razored light we had never known
Shrieked across our skins
Hungry talons shore kin from kin
Cleaving us to another fate
In a mighty blow wielded by a god
We were torn asunder
My heart no longer whole
My very skin carved away
In painful birthing ‘we’ are now ‘I’
Heart wrenching in my aloneness
I cry for my soul so close, I see
And feel the throbbing sob
Of a soul lost, alone and unwhole
Reality separates us; in a gulf
Wider than the universe
And deeper than eternity
I see my soul shaped, made firm
Faceted like the stars; our ancestors
My dream, my desire, my destiny
To be at one with my heart, my beloved
In this life and all the rest
~~Feral Goddess, A.G. Muilenburg

LET US REMEMBER OUR LIVES

Come with me priestess 

Let us remember our lives

Here at the banks of the Nile

Let us dream of warm sand

And cool stones beneath our feet

Come with me priestess 

Let us remember our lives

Embracing the rising sun

Nourishing our KAs each morning

Let us sing of RA’s benevolence

Come with me priestess 

Let us remember our lives

Enfolded in sacred night

Dancing beneath the crescent moon

Rejoicing in the mysteries of Osiris

Light the incense; shake the sistrum

Come with me priestess 

Let us remember our lives

~~Thy Daughter, A. G. Muilenburg