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Clown of illusion howl the coyotes song
and dance his unique sacred way to the
black nesting raven.
By their beauty shine upon your
twisting path of the venturing warlock.

Passing time and blinding mirrored space
creation infinite.
I change my evoloving colours of deep mood
to tree hugging chameleon.
Walk now son of man through the mysterious
world of valhalla, where you will stumble across
lost treasures of fallen dead warrior.

Soaring crow break my orb-spirit with
flapping wings of shadowed thoughts.
O growing infant transcend my ghost-being
to lands of ice and snow storms, where complex
shamans transform into feathered dancers of change.

Arising thunderbeings fan with colourful plumage
roaring fire, thus purifying smoke of drifting sage
and sweetgrass.
Breath of levitating soul ascend upward to meet
hovering monk of aromatic lavender.
Lay open on a flying carpet of rubies and sparkling jewels
your very thoughts to a listening supernatural god-spirit.

Reincarnate your created seed and quickly wrap
yourself in a soundless coccoon of honeycomb
and fine spider web.
Wet dew on a lonely flower of morning, I dance with
a hundred dead skeletons.

I blindly search in defiant madness
tooth and claw of dominant wolf.
Master of the freezing tundra, take me
to meet psychic arctic fox.
I want to drown in his thick white
fur of life-threatening barren wilderness.

Kaleidoscope dreams grant permission
for my seeking ghost to freely travel amongst
meandering corridors of purple liquid space.

My mind ferments and forms into endless
maelstroms of destructive power.
O black hole of no direction where tigers
of violence and fire leap from the gaping
mouths of infants, swallow me whole.

Within a floating kiss I discover myself
walking with clans of hungry vampires.
I lovingly place upon the mud of fear
vibrant red roses of seeping blood.

Rotating in circles of life-creation
I see the growing souls genesis.
Mad dog of the desert
trickster of intoxicating insanity,
I swim within your eyes of the damned.