40 Poems From POMEGRANATE FLESH by Strider Marcus Jones

SPANGLED IN MY CELTIC CROSS~Pagan Love Poem by Strider Marcus Jones

SPANGLED IN MY CELTIC CROSS

put your remark

in the breach

of my heart

and reach

to my head.

make love to my core,

in the land of my lore

this said-

in fields in summer

in woods  in the fall-

with you, then me, under

it all-

the sensual cloud

calling wild out loud-

then bodies spent

on the grass all bent

talking in mulchey tones

scenting tree bark and squelchy moss with pheromones.

naked tall bones

hiding in robes of silver birches,

walk with random tribes of bluebells

bringing us to pagan churches-

where we leave offerings

for mineral blessings

on trickling rocks-

like hat bells

and single socks.

at the base,

we looked up at Arthur or Merlin's face,

trying to rewind

and prime

our supernatural clocks

to that forgotten time

we can't replace,

but only got

the echo of physical and mental mines

under this surface.

no more homes

gather round the circle stones-

no more druid dreads

to connect our disconnected threads

up on Alderley Edge-

and as we wandered back down

to get on the train out of town,

i felt my ear-ring

while I was thinking-

and found a ribbon of moss

spangled in my celtic cross.

Copyright Strider Marcus Jones. 22nd November, 2010. All Rights Reserved.

Some poems sleep inside you. This one has taken twenty years to wake up.