| Rebirth of Spirit Monuments embrace misty morning Dust bleeds red as it dances with the wind Precisioned entanglement with the spirits Woven into yesterdays souls Canyons paint in fevered reverence As footsteps walk into shadowed memory Un-known dreams take form from yesterday Un-answered pleas lie in wait of today Un-covered visions promise hope of tomorrow Touching the sky darkness falls Silver light breathing life into the heart of her A cast of stardust shimmers the artist hand Formation shifting like transparent time Infinity only a heartbeat away Twilights mist beckons to the old ones As nectar so sweet I hear you whisper my name From turquoise mountains I feel you whisper my name Jo Escher 09/27/2003 Copyright ©2003 Jo Escher |
| Broken Silent in this veil of pain Thrown about me like a death shroud It clings, Stealing my breath Shattering my soul The emptiness is maddening Shards of glass blister images Consuming this life blood Like a thief, Dancing in silence I hear the echoes, I feel the screams Helpless am I Loneliness, Like a tomb, En-traps me here A hostage, Until it is finished My soul is empty My flesh broken and weeping I thirst Trial by fire The answers are before me Like hot coals they burn Destroying old and new alike Forgive me Jo R Escher 07/07/1995 Copyright ©2003 Jo R Escher |
| Stone Stone says I am I ask stone, why are you here? Stone replied, you placed me here Why are you grey? Stone replied, I just am Why are you broken and worn? Stone replied, I just am I have always been, I will always be I ask stone, what are the answers? Why don't you move? Stone replied, I am where you placed me, that is answer enough I ask stone, why are you round? Stone replied, I just am You already have the answers Why are you so heavy? I just am Stone replied, It's what you do with me that makes all the difference I ask stone What am I to do with you? Stone replied, I am stone I just am Jo R Escher 07/2000 Copyright ©2003 Jo R Escher |
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| Moonlight Charade Phantom mist splintering the night I know you watch, waiting With coy submission The moon revealing your form in naked truth Together we transgress timeless time Alive under spells unspoken We are far beyond relics past Uniting in dance we submit to hunger Innocent defenses provoking fear One leading into another follow Dusty shards sculpt form Void of shame which bares no witness Her beauty foreshadows goddess lore Incantation spills forth lilac wine Perfection lain drunken in everpresent lust Lavishing consent An indulgence of completeness Jo R. Escher 04/25/1984 Copyright ©2003 Jo R. Escher |
| Similar Features How am I to relate with paper and pen Will destiny stain the pages black or white? Words left unsaid, cascading to the ground What is to provoke fear? In giving of one's self A concealing mask of protection Is lain shattered against the ground Where are my weapons, hath they deserted me? All is known, destruction is to be mine Fate of word cherished wounding in time past The struggle is great for me now We exist within ill measured time Reconnaissance of passions dance Fantasy decays into fear I question that I dare venture here alone Mocking laughter, They cry out, FOOL Expression becomes the only restitution Dare not speak emotion with word It's meaning lost forever to the void Only in silence will the masquerade unite Jo R. Escher 10/03/1985 Copyright ©2003 Jo R. Escher |
| Tailor's Web Bittersweet mist Consecrate this destitute union Enchantment paints a dishearting illusion Intoxicated with iridescent prism of being A labyrinth of mystery holds siege Eradicate the fault of others So many forbid the malice of vengeance Revere and master ones own darkness Pungent the sacrifice of solace It was mine to profess this journey My summation grew torrid with surrender Trancending this waking vision To embrace this revelation of wisdom Yet not I wane, wailing out what is lost Paradox is to lure out this myth Logic falls prey to circumstance Legacy is an incentive to form the circle Repetition sings of myrrh and gifts Anger be not forgotten me Jo R. Escher 11/24/1985 Copyright ©2003 Jo R. Escher |
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