The Hermit Empire Poems

January 10, 2017

The Scotsman

Pushing giants from the bridges

Pulling angels from the air

Rent the harpy

Savaged wolves

Tamed the ursa bear

Fed my soul upon the wind

Worked the sallow field

Came to trumpets running

Casting hands with solid steel

Rough to certain diamonds

Diamond to the rough

Crossed the raging rivers

Drawing courage at the trough

Bless me back my brothers

Come and march in time

Youth be gone and coming

Swiftly garnered to the line

Coin to king and prophet

Bred to serve and finally rot

Proud to bear the standard

Holding true to heart a Scot

-Hermit King-

https://open.spotify.com/track/0dyIlFZSIyEpLmUG6wStJZ?si=WPf0UAdaSOOp85qV810fLw

January 8, 2017

My Dragon

I have a dragon

Lest it is fed

My dragon sleeps

If fed my dragon rages

My dragon burns the fields

I know this dragons danger

Dragons may be overcome

My dragon is destruction

My dragon is a beauty

My dragon sleeps

Lest it is fed

I have a dragon

-Hermit King-

https://open.spotify.com/track/489m0guUPAgaDlpOY42Atc?si=qBQR6VohQ3CPw1LHhL8Bjw

January 2, 2017

Leah Rose

Seventeen facets to my heart

Thousands to my soul

Loving catch I would Impart

This feelings fishing hole

Cast for passing barrier

Fast those fires rolled

Pooled in care filled carrier

Tamed the highest road

Wonders met and justified

Screaming to the sun

Awe filled shocked and terrified

Exaltation on the run

Purposed straight and ridgid

Clueless to all care

Worlds of hot to frigid

Propped by maiden fair

Endless pushing friction

Never feeling clutched

Not but I to free her

Inner space untouched

Legals best addiction

Desperations open door

Bow to phantom freedom

Godly gifted evermore

Praying aspiration

Never ruled o're to be rushed

Lonely inspiration

Racing sunset 'cross the dust

-Hermit King-

https://open.spotify.com/track/5HkWcIkVoUKsMq1Qvqvg3H?si=Km_ZNEYqQtiESwJqNRRqJw

November 26, 2016

Winter Warning

Winter night strumming

Winter warning "colds comin'"

Winter night is here

Coldly it is said

Coldly kin the walk of dead

Coldly breaking seas

Fading seasons down

Fading whispers of a town

Fading calming rush

Silence seeks the night

Silence speaks beneath the light

Silence stills wonder

Home the wonders crawl

Home with every large and small

Home to hearth and cave

Chimes all set and staged

Chimes now singing songs engaged

Chimes iced to warning

-Hermit King-

https://open.spotify.com/track/5F0RkOsGQSNFyDBdjLvPYv?si=miFBXLokQ6iEMFxpdI1N0A

September 17, 2016

Bug Out

Gun, Axe, Knife, Match

4 if you Must Survive

Game, Fuel, Food, and Fire

A List to Stay Alive

Cover, Water, Caution, Kin

Again Rebuild Renew

Castle, Crops, Containment, Kids

Prep It May Ensue

Courage, Faith, Talk, Trust

Lest a Testings Proven Ill

Breath, Aim, Alarm, Attack

Should Others Come to Kill

Limbo, Dirt, Heaven, Hell

Options with a Cost

Scream, Stuck, Survive, or Sunk

Living's Won or Lost

-Hermit King-

https://open.spotify.com/track/0JwW3IZUdjGP9HbZCPsc93?si=KZMaGa1rQoyd4UNh3W-JGQ

September 13, 2016

I Should

I do not think of my mother every day

As I did with my infant mind.

I do not dwell on her reactions to my deeds

As when a tripping youth I'd run astray

Long has it been since wondering what sleep she'd lost

Of teenage nights when midnight seemed an early end

Or pondering the silent prayerful tears she shed

When with sufficient age waged a war upon the wicked world

I seem to bless her in many passing moments now

When the victories and miseries in every sort of news

Prove True the value of her parenthood

And profess the timeless greatness of her deeds

I am just a weave in the vital tapestry of her life

A grateful thread in her masterwork yet undone

A knot made to feel as worthy as any stitch

My proud display is claiming her my own

I do no think of my mother every day

I Should

-Hermit King- 2002

https://open.spotify.com/track/042RaY48TNY9aesv8fqYTf?si=8iq0vhaUSRaQjtDs940lxA

September 3, 2016

22 Push Ups

Perhaps we will be nothing

Not sure we don't know why

Ask us not a question

We are nothing pass us by

Treat us like a shadow

Look right through us we are clear

Forget and never love us

Walk away we are not here

Tumbleweeds unnoticed

Hands not made to ready hold

Rolling no direction

Lone wolves walk the bitter cold

Forget me nots set blooming

Push ye up a war torn vet

As 22 consider

The final lifes regret

-Hermit King-

https://open.spotify.com/track/1le2vOcwnxNsv1wLFee8F2?si=HyyJSFJRTUmEsFNpLnPN-A

August 25, 2016

Princess

Little fairy princess down

Hastened by a nervous clown

Sullied by the prince of fear

Little princess darling dear

Hit the bottom

Shot it up

Fairy princess

Drank the cup

Popcorn questions

Flooding eyes

Ghosts in answers

Spooks and lies

Running furies

Missing dates

Lifetime minutes

Tempting fates

Little princess darling dear

Sullied by the prince of fear

Hastened by a nervous clown

Little fairy princess down

-Hermit King-

for Chloe

https://open.spotify.com/track/1FMWfcprIuFzZhJEQ0PyFR?si=BOycP4dgTyybjBUZo_ADrg

August 14, 2016

The Weaver

Rise and take comfort

Put to rest this test of fear

Weaving hope to soul

Pain must be dismissed

There will be no cure this time

Weaving hope to soul

Live the greatest gift

Unto those who seek a fire

Weaving hope to soul

Hold to each good thread

Every one a dear embrace

Weaving hope and soul

Teaching earth and sky

To the value of a name

Weaving hope to soul

Love and calling sent

Finest choice to loose or hold

Weaving hope to soul

-Hermit King-

For Hope

https://open.spotify.com/track/2jctuxBZ8XzQsSUfIOhsqN?si=PmbVin8mS0af2JNGQnDOvg

July 21, 2016

Pearls

Infinite Wonder

Glory and thanks unto thee

For I am just dust

In celebration

I awake to creation

Each second I stay

Milky way close

I seek afar of marvels

Closer every day

I stand on our rock

Just beneath the breathing sun

Welcomed to the light

Spirits whirl about

Legions threading every sky

Often I feel them

I take all from you

Blessed I am found worthy

Thankful for the way

-Hermit King-

For Pearl

https://open.spotify.com/track/4FWLfDAcr6b8WxRwrGwFUc?si=leHDI6UmR3SxXgsML8JftQ

July 8, 2016

Soup

You've grown with us for some two years

I've worked here but one more

52 and just 15

I met you at the door

Knew you'd be that special kid

With those dangerous cold eyes

Hair like Fierce Flamingos

And your saddness filled the skies

I was qualified as Father

Poet, manager and ref

But now had higher calling

Teen-soup treatment daylight chef

With you, like oh so many

the ingredients were there

Greater chefs worked all around us

I was blessed to stir the fare

Many soups have been deployed here

Alphabets both hot and cold

Bisques of all the youthful wilds

Bouillon sweet and touched by gold

For you no preconceptions

As I'm told that isn't fair

That day began a journey

For which no one could prepare

Hurt has cut you deeply here

Venting demons often will

Self assessment can be toxic

And the cure a bitter pill

You must know you've seeds of greatness

That have flown a bit off course

Not unique the inconvenience

To the children of divorce

Stand and walk the way to win

It's now you own the show

the world holds many poisons

Drawing moths into the glow

Fight only to be peaceful

Bless a world that needs your smile

Gift us with your music

Set the lights to shame with style

Never hold to liars

Life can be too short

Live within each moment
Sailing strong to every port

If today's the last you see me

As with time all things must cease

This proud old chef is smiling

To have served a masterpiece.

-Hermit King-

For Anna

https://open.spotify.com/track/2g9g02DJIYSjHSMZiCl7hQ?si=QgqQJXGKSY6Gmh9KZmiuYg

June 24, 2016

The Keep

Garden, Ruin, Castle, Keep

Each to hold what men shall reap

Lilies gather, stand, and bloom

Lay the prized possessions tomb

Deep in rubble of what's past

May a worthy trove be cast

Lofted turrets flagged on high

Wealth to worlds of all who fly

Last I think tis to the deep

Far below foundations weep

Garden, Ruin, Castle, Keep

Each to hold what men shall reap

-Hermit King-

https://open.spotify.com/track/2aldoFjZLDhGHwdzHbmoaE?si=NPJIXKCDQhiogG24-nNzUg

May 25, 2016

Davy's Garden

The rippled wave of scythes

Whip and seed the fallen grasses

Resting low a taken stalk

I have seen the grasslands

They know me

For in them are the resting sons and fallen

And the memories of my blood

-Hermit King-

https://open.spotify.com/track/3Eoo6LwreD0n0kKuw0rbDo?si=J9E-y6YERvafeaQ0aQXezw

May 14, 2016

2016

Turn on the Power

Avoid Obliteration

Exercise Freedom

Stand Before You Bend

Not Worships Adoration

Broken or Enslaved

Filling Fallen Cups

Renew a Generation

Crafting the Next Win

Warning Please Be Real

Mistakes are Desolation

All will Rise or Fall

Look Toward New Light

See Us as Inspiration

Water and We Grow

Time to Make a Choice

America the Power

Worlds Aspiration

-Hermit King-

https://open.spotify.com/track/3lcP1anKWxdp6IRNF9vGhu?si=IoBhYW5yR5aLPXKl-5vKgA

March 17, 2016

A Measure of Life

What day

What moment

Would I trade for time

From past to now

An equal measure of life

Some moments

Too obvious precious

Off limits at best

When we met, kissed

Wept for joy, made love

What day

What moment

Would I trade for time

From past to now

An equal measure of life

Perhaps our first big fight

Perhaps the stress of work and school

The night the cat was hit and died

The day we missed the Cancun flight

What day

What moment

Would I trade for time

From past to now

An equal measure of life

Hiding home for those two weeks

we never missed Cancun

The driver who hit kitty

now a dearest friend

Working and school made us

better smarter organized and strong

And in healing that first fight

we made a son

What day

What moment

Could

I trade for time

From past to now

All

Equal measures of life

-Hermit King-

https://open.spotify.com/track/5JEM7lT9uSyhUsKFXwGfSm?si=UHnAAA6BTqCtmceTkFAK2Q

November 21, 2015

Mohican Requiem

Man is prey my son

Free your mind and know no fear

Wolves are in the trees

Swift prepare your skills

Lest your dread breed not but hate

Lies infect the air

Look toward your home

What can with you walk or stay

Knowing all may go

Choose what lives you save

As the pitiful may come

Options must not fail

Build your body best

Saving more than just a soul

Living mans god wins

Don't neglect to love

Though another tests your will

Peace may have a toll

-Hermit King-

https://open.spotify.com/track/0YiHytB1sRDuaqA6NaK9jT?si=bllWFBH0RlSKfuU4uwisbA

May 15, 2015

The Sin Eater

Dine on chilled of sin

With murderous fuel of tears

I have supped the damned

Drunk upon their rage

Draughts of final vengeance mine

Vile and sweet it's course

Ever famished lord

On these barbecues I roast

Ashen rests the meat

Given just desserts

Each one ravenous consumed

Lost on blades of time

Check forever paid

A digestion is no jest

Heartless burns that pool

Now too late we know

Understanding of this bite

Hate was all but waste

-Hermit King-

https://open.spotify.com/track/6vChfg4YpNtCeUlWTFkuuc?si=Jv1mwAJ0Rby9Vb8Rv9twWQ

April 11, 2015

Silent Cage

Covered cages blind beside them

Never calling songs of home

Dragon children

Who would heal them

Born and ever left to roam

Mothers streets are desperation

Nursed on chance and happenstance

Love would feed us

Night will bleed us

Living litter's twilight dance

Fathers call from darkened corner

Come and taste the bread of fear

Hear it in the subtle hiss

Papa needs a little kiss

Altered souls soon disappear

Youth in tribal families prowl

Heed before each coming dawn

Steal your cash

Protect your stash

Bread's the gold of every pawn

God's a thought for masterbation

Words of light and lands so green

A lust for fools

In worlds so cruel

It's just a match for gasoline

Dodge the daily demon dance

Walk the wasteland where I play

Enjoy the scene

Of where I've been

Tip the ghosts and skip away

- Hermit King-

https://open.spotify.com/track/73ZlmJxexVebFozgZhEhkd?si=iXPWZAanTkWjVX0rPN5Y3w

January 24, 2015

Accept we must to rally on
Prepping heart and soul
Know full well the living left
Carry forth the toll

Soon too soon a son is down
Silence overflows
Breakers strike a raging brow
Pain in thundershows

Baring it another dawn
Only by his will
Brief has been the journey
Eternity the kill

Smile firm forgiveness
Enmity is gone
All we'd done is living
Prince as well as pawn

Close your eyes to feel this hand
Resting on your heart
We love you son forever
We're ok you can depart

-Hermit King-

For Kelly

https://open.spotify.com/track/6LBfozDVA7crIeuaPAVVlE?si=yp40Z38ATz2nYokStMjvuA

November 22, 2014

Service to Forever

Romance bred of passions deep

Largesse to lives grown wise

Visions now beyond the bend

Centered on the prize

Choices once and hasty made

Parents young and bold

Opt to breath a kindred air

Attached with rings of gold

Two to walk a winding world

Never smooth the track

Loves advance to destiny

Unbroken looking back

Grief and pain inclusive

Justice, joy and rest

Sifting false illusions

Blessings for the test

Kingdoms too oft fleeting

In the histories are drown

Tis bonds made firm eternal

Merit deities true crown

Celebration is the gratitude
Of lesser youth made strong
To two who'll live forever
As the lyric of our song

-Hermit King-

https://open.spotify.com/track/4o8k0A5ZB6WybwgCnn77ox?si=p314UWXHRGem3Q9V1osmKA

July 26, 2014

Ouroboros