Nammu's Chariot~

~~and she went "Nope, ain't gonna let the world go out like this, you be that, and I'll be this, flip it, skip it, give it, be it, with a beat box rhythm, we'll make 'em feel it."

White swan

in a field of pearls

I’ll be the boy

to your girl

unfurl

fingerprints in onyx

digital blooms

embryonic

pressure

underbelly

religioso histrionics

when she kissed the fairy tale on the hip

fiddled with a microchip

tattoo a silver cage

moral compass engaged

textured to the bone

her body scroll

shifts

priestly avid fingers grip

her wrists

golden lock spasms

sea blue blood pouring from her ears

into a thousand old lines

meaty pulpit hammered

lies

she smiles

over a dainty shoulder

god scolds her

her glance

grows colder

wicked

calculated

curved blade

long and nimble fingers curl in

craved

she dares them one by one

show me!,

push comes to shove

he slips on metal gloves

while a doe ambles by in the corner frame

giving birth to bullets

caught in human games

of the story’s avalanche

in 3 D video games

above  mandala branches

tree of dirt flecked souls

where

girls in prayer formations

chanted

knees in stones

temple spine

inverted

water sky reverted

tribal strokes in black chalk under each eye

purr outside a café

sipping chai

manicured nails leaving trails in her own thighs

as palms’ press against walls in the clouds

face of the crowd

crows open for the heavens

priestess comes in an ochre chariot

stringing her braids into a lariat

ochre eye lashes

dusting the world

like moth wings

unfurl

lotus laughter from a million butterflies in her throat

in eight~note

as his gun points between her eyes

she peels the skin off human disguise

demise

gray matter

in a soundless explosion

her scent a sweet

musky potion

pollen

on the wind

gives the world on her axis

a brand new spin

while she

in golden leaves

climbs from the tree of Eve

into recreation

hybrid compilation

underneath a waterfall

shaping from pebbles

words into prose

while sunfish

dart in

out

between her ivory toes

 

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Author's Note

Nammu hails from the Sumerian creation text~ represents the primeval sea from which she gave birth to An and Ki ( Heavens and Earth Mother)~ without going into the deep core of the mythos~ it's written in Papyrus Geh that at the end is the beginning~unlike demonized versions of Armageddon which instill nothing but terror~Papyrus Geh relates endings as rebirths and sometimes a chariot is not made of gold and metal but skin and bones~
~Namaste~
~all ancient history/mythology flowers from the same womb~

Reviews

[Aven]

Selene... I don't think I need to tell you how amazing this is, but I do it anyway because I want to! there is something about your poetry that grabs me, I see vivid images and sweet scents drift on the air and I think it will never end... it's a great feeling to immerse oneself in your poetry. well written! :)

[No regret]

Gratifying Read.

[Tate Morgan]

A dance through emotion

[Ron]

Oh Selene, Like I said Im new to all of this and Im no writer but I was taught to sing at age four. So I can understand the rythms and the words keep me wanting more I wasnt a word man , more of a tune man ,but when I did sing alot of people cried. Your poem here is exciting and raw with the sensual side of life within us all. Your words are truly remarkable and your knowledge of different cultures and in people in general gives such a vast supply of information. I take out of this poem the sacred and frailness in us humans, spell bounding and yet soft ,yet rough, we are all animals. I love your poem . Lots of love Ron

[The Warrior Poet]

Your writing flows so smoothly - sometimes leaving me wndering what I just read - because I know that flesh lies below those shimmering scales and yet, I reach the end enchanted.

[Ruth]

Thats what I adore about you and your work Selene, love:) You always capture such intensity in any subject!
You master the art of being able to write about anything that influences you and tell it with such passion that is originally biting!
Amazing love!
xx

[Cafe Reader]

Just incredible!

[No use.]

millions of weaving and tellings carved into a little pebble, creating strange ripples in the water, origami shapes of swans around a mother of pearl , your fingers fold the scroll up down in and out between the cuts and tears creating a world of skin and bones from gold foil leaves~

[Kennedy]

thats good I like it ^_^

[Geralyn Miller]

Mother Earth word artist, Selene, you have outdone yourself! The images continue to swirl in my head in a kalidoscope of joy.

[Lachenille Papillion]

Homer had nothing on you baby, when it comes to bringing the ancient tales to breath...as always... absolutely divine