the essenes

the essenes

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the wandering desert philosophers

the mystical magical venerable visionaries of

flaming god heads and angel eyes

shimmering in desert heat

and mushroom clouds

a nirvana of neurons

expanding and exploding

in universal truth and love

the knowledge of compassion and

                                   empathy

coursing

             through sand crusted veins

the meaning of life, each different, 

to a billion grains of dust

the wisdom, ancient and blue, of cacti

causing shadows to reveal their dance

the silence of lizard mind echoes

in a haze of gnosis

a shivering, oasis - like, just out of reach

the dirt yearning for moisture

like a rough edged heart for love

the gospel truth in death rattle snakes

reptilian fossil gods of old

blink the sweetest nectar from eyelids

the abundance of life in the empty heat

     a vision

                                comprehension

mind blown in a storm of wind

bedouin thoughts billowing free

baptised in the fire of the sun