Syzygy Cypher

Syzygy Cypher Poetry Cult



I assembled my eleven part presentation SOLSYSTEM for the Syzygy Cypher Poetry Cult, thanks to Beau Aaron Wolcott for taking the initiative to throw this whole thing together at The Painted Note. My lone poem represents having condensed a larger body of work, forty four poems in all, down to one fourth its size. These are taken from my COSMOLOGOS manuscript, which I've collected together over the years.  They consist mainly of poems of a cosmic nature or which attempt to make salient observations of our stellar condition in our present human guise.  I am happy with the eleven poems in SOLSYSTEM because they represent an Ouroboros of significance to me, beginning with the conceptual alpha symbolism of ADAMITE and ending with the concrete omega title poem, in between which are nine various examples of presenting differing perspectives covering the state of our existence.  The final poem is a recitation of all the known planets in our solar system along with most of the named moons and various orbital bodies, starting with the farthest named dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt and drawing inward toward the final pronounced word of the piece, THE SUN. SOLSYTEM is the result of many years of deliberation over my philosophical ideas about the universe and our place in it. It's an attempt at peeling off the skin from the ever growing Ouroboros Snake in the process of consuming itself across eons of spacetime in flux and laying it out in front of an audience like a page upon which the writing on the wall may be heard and torn off like leaves from the tree of life whose veins elaborate another hidden story becoming finely lost in a split decision network of nervous outcomes fading away beneath new cellular layers always in the process of reforming and decaying in a never ending revolution tracing the ongoing webbing of time after time upon the heaps and hills long left behind of compressed bones petrified into the ground below our feet and which eventually complete the mountainous planetary formations awhirl in this grand spiraling cauldron of electromagnetic radiation we call the Milky Way.