Hierophant

By Scott Byorum

A collection of thought provoking modern poems and short stories by the Author. Hierophant ~ a person, especially a priest in ancient Greece, who interprets sacred mysteries or esoteric principles.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Aug 16, 2020
• ISBN: 9781698702599

Scott Byorum

Scott has a BA in Psychology from Sonoma State University. He has always been interested in art, writing, and music and resides in Guerneville, CA, with his 2 Turkish Angora cats: Monkey and Flower.

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CONTENTS

Introduction: Tarot

A Million Years

A Non-Song

A Song for the Seasons

Age of Rage

Alien Desires

All the Bells on Earth

All the Demons

All Will Fade

Alone

Am I Today?

Another Day on Earth

Are You Alone Now?

Atomic

At the Door

Backhand

Banshee

Beginning’s End

Be Free

Black Cat

Broken Things

Burn the Witch

Button Down Doll

Childhood

Close to Me

Cold Part of Warmth

Commence the Heartache

Coward

Crows and Chimes

Crows Nesting On Power Lines

Days of Mirrored Pasts

Destination

Devil May Care

Dirty Pictures

Disaffected Youth

Dominance

Down Done Gone Dark Time

Elemental

Empty Nest

Energy

Extreme

Faith

Falling Down

Father

Feeling Every Minute

Fighting for Your Life

Find Me

Frail Predators

Free Fall

Ghost Train

Glory to the King

God Bless America

Growing Down

Happy Pictures

Hard Case

Holocene Drip

House of You

Hurricane

I Am

I Get Blind

Idle Wastes

I Feel the Smell of Life

I’m Not Missing Anything

Indigo Street

Intangible

In the Fathoms of Zeal

In Your Hands

Invisible

Last Man Passing

Laugh

Liberation

Lies

Love

Love & Death

Little Kid Lost

Love Ballad

Mannequin Pyre

Maybe Just A Hat

Memories

Misanthrope

Misty Sweet and Stolen Memories

Mother

Mushroom Flower Moss

Needless Waste

Neptune’s Whore

Never Ever You

Nibble

Nihrain

No Endless Home

Old Brown River

Opulence

Our Game

Our Murderous Return

Outside the Realm of Nature

Patterns

Persistence

Pin Stripe Boys

Pleasure Games

Psychosis Heatscape

Quest

Quiet Riot

Raindrops and Diamonds

Red

Redneck Rhapsody

Reverend Mother in the House of Angels

Run

Sapphire in a Storm

Scamper and Scurry

Scorpio Chasing Gemini

Scratch

Self-Discovery

Social Tension

So It Begins

Something from Nothing

Spiral

Steam

Stump

Subterfuge

Sure

Survivor

Thank You for Touching Me

That Dance

That Darkness

The Big Crush

The Cave

The Fountain & The Fire

The Gathering

The Killing Joke

The Last Day

The Last Page

The Light of Your Eyes

The Madman’s Lament

The Man in the Clouds

The Marvel Men

The Movement in the Light

The Performer

The Race

The Rainy Season

The Repetitiveness of Things

The Road

The Void

The Vultures

These Chairs

These Days

Things That Were Consumed

This and That

Today Like No Tomorrow

Together

Top of the Cliff

To Mars and Back

Tussle

Two Cats

Unasked

Uncharted Territories

Universal Ownership

Vortex

Wake Up

Waves of Lies

We All Fall Down

We Are All Going Down

Webby

We Need This

When Death is at My Door

When the Flames Are Coming Out of the Grill and it is Melting Turn it Off

When You Were Midnight

Why Am I afraid?

Witches

Why Bother

Whispering Bay Lane

Work It Out

Wisdom

Yeah, I’m Trouble

You Can Ask

You Don’t See Me

You Move

Appendix I On Becoming a Zombie

Appendix II The Dying American

About the Author and the Book

To Angela…

Understanding is constrained by questions unasked.

~ SEB

That’s silly.

~ Famous Last Words

Faith is the assurance of things hoped for; the conviction of things not seen

~ Some Minister who doesn’t know shit, but came up with the perfect definition of Faith; that’s not a judgement… I don’t know shit either

It’s not the animal itself; it is the air or water that moves the animal. A fish does not swim; it is swum. A bird does not fly; it is flown.

~ Viktor Schauberger

Q: "Why don’t snowballs make good golf balls?"

A: Because they’re too cold.

~ RKHKH

INTRODUCTION

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Tarot

N

I’m a fleeting spark in the Ocean’s dalliance

By night I’m a Dreamer

By day I’m asleep

I am sometimes a Scorpio

I am always a Fool

I

He is the Magician

The Illusionist of Lies

The blackness of His heart

Is revealed within His eyes

As His soul moves on

II

A pillar of Light

A pillar of Dark

With veins of each shared between

The Ancient Lessons learned in order

From Parent to Child

III

She is the Ruler

She is the Giver

The Empress makes you a Believer

The Seasons will come and go

And She will carry you Home

IV

He is the King

He is the Master

The Emperor rules the World

He is the Fortune

And he is the Pain

V

Between Heaven and Hell

Between Pleasure and Pain

The Hierophant burns

A life with brief name

A time of short reign

VI

You and Me

Locked in embrace

Lost in each other

Our Planets and Signs

The Lovers unite

VII

A Child’s toy

The Chariot of God

The Elements churn

And return to the Source

In the palm of an Alien hand

VIII

You are the Strength

You carry through the Ages

I can’t do what You do

It’s not a burden

It’s a gift

IX

The Gate of the Sun

The Hermit within

The Knowledge of the Ages resides

Ancient and forlorn

The Future tries to find

X

Round and round

Our Fortunes to find

The baubles besiege our eyes

Those illusory delights

Those empty treasures

XI

There is weight in forgiveness

There is pain in revenge

There is no taking it back

Only taking it forward

For Justice or worse

XII

The Traitor is a Hanged Man

The Captor is the same

Everyone is right inside their Mind

We borrow from each other

And claim it as our own

XIII

This is the End

Death is the End

The Light between the Towers

Through which everyone must pass

To fertilize a Rose

XIV

The liquids go in

The liquids go out

They transfer from vessel to vessel

Temperance is a Virtue

Temperance is a Sin

XV

Apocalyptic anger

Betrayal and regret

Power is the source of all our lies

Symbols can illuminate

The Devil can control them

XVI

This is the Tower

This is the Fortress

The illusion of safety

The certainty of destruction

Over and over again

XVII

Here comes the Star

Here comes the Light

Here comes the change

Here comes the pain

Here comes your life

XVIII

Whatever you see

Is last in your mind

But changes the World around you

The Moon is a mirror

To share someone’s life

XIX

The Sun is here

The Sun is now

The flowers grow

The Red Flag blows

We cherish our lives together

XX

Gabriel blows the Horn

And the Light of God shines upon us