Sword to Stone Toast

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To 

Hands 

Held 

In 

Peaceful 

Hope 

Of  

Held 

Hands

In

Hopeful

Peace

May The Calmest Hand

Most Fierce in Peace 

Be Held Ever Hopeful

And 

Most Fierce of Hand

In Calming Peace 

Be Ever Hopeful Held

-Hermit King-

https://open.spotify.com/track/3NJTljHJQJQMcLxNfDfm3t?si=wKSCJ7iPRmONLPq644VxJg

Tonight

I leave you tonight

I will seek you from the stars

I am with you love

An unsure rising

A leap from a mighty tree

A Hard way taken

My cure now rising

Many weep I ebb and sway

Melancholy free

Miracles of pain

March my rusted soul estate

Moments holding me

Alarming to rest

Almost dazzled in the light

A new eye has seen

No disrespect left

No life debts left but given

Now I am set free

-Hermit King-

https://open.spotify.com/track/7bu0znpSbTks0O6I98ij0W?si=TmqoieuqR9CCZZjF-Ds_dQ

Elsies Ground

I set out a canvas 

and six bending sticks.

If its a trying yer after

Fer testing the ticks

Down past the willows

a rather flat spot

Go raise a hut

and build ye a cot.

Take the retriever, 

a shot, and a round.

Sleep and relax 

as I hear every sound.

I pray that this wee one 

marries the stars.

On nights in my garden

Walled from 'er wars.

-Hermit King-

https://open.spotify.com/track/4SKB2QOzgdXB5RscYKUm9a?si=ufAvYbwvQpyeFM-86_txtg

Song of Destinys

Singing songs of destinys

In worlds of endless fields

Atop her stone of knowledge

Astride the streams of fear

At one with ancient demons

Dancing angel on the line

A bead among the weavings

Born to giants back in time

Soul of baby racing bison

Heart of otters work to play

Wolf run free with wisdom

Fly her thunderbirds away

Sing the song of destinys
The world she may become
Bow to none but promise
Every day a brighter one

-Hermit King-

For

All my Destinys

https://open.spotify.com/track/2ZW0A9cFELkFsCT5UkWjkG?si=j9hdVOgeTzeJlzyYeP1dHQ

Thundereggs

Our lightning eyes 

We fill these skies

We Raging Thundereggs!

Alit aloft 

We scream our song

We Rising Thundereggs!

Made a leap

We bank and sweep

We Dancing Thundereggs!

Free we fly

We know the sky

We Dragon Thundereggs!

-Hermit King-

https://open.spotify.com/track/6w9VLa9bw3XmAmZc3UPW3e?si=WzOtJo51RQ6UkTuznrsHXQ

Donor

Home the casting of my soul
Now rested from the tests
Heartsongs sound in deepest blue
And beats within new breasts

Airless currents set to drift
What was once of me away
Yet prayers of chance inflation
Gather wind for youthful play

What waters cannot harbor now

Their poisons cant contest
What could not bare the burden
Now run clear with all the rest

Vision far exceeds the need
From where I see beyond
Mine now next to wonder
What true darkness would abscond

Heart went to a fisherman
Lungs to one who flies
Kidneys a young mother
Grandson his new eyes

Not the tool for much in life
No creators hand was mine
Please accept this gift I ask
I am now done and doing fine

-Hermit King-

https://open.spotify.com/track/1NDBAc8qEYARqMTi3rRxHu?si=fguFdynSQSmyvOyf8m8L-Q

Ms Stress Rose

From Feline Feast to Fury

Eager Eye to Flashing Fist

Ms Stress Motivates the Moment

Filling Holes to Fill Her List

Ms Stress Paints a Ruby Rainbow

Both You Know You Must Go Down

Ms Stress Treats You as She Likes To

Good One Bad One King or Clown

Ms Stress Destiny is Diamonds

On the Trail of All Mens Tears

Subtle Damage Like a Demon

Ms Stress May Be Yours For Years

Love and War to Her's a Plaything

Keep it Fresh Keeps Them in Line

Ms Stress May Decide to Take You

Or Quite Simply Snap Your Spine

Ms Stress Whipping Chains Soon Tingle

As the Swelling Pumps and Pounds

Soon You'll See a New Horizon 

As Her Will Strikes Blows Like Rounds

Should You Someday Chance to Meet Her

Make It Fast the Doors All Close

A Choice Wins You Your Freedom

Or The Webs of Ms Stress Rose

-Hermit King-

https://open.spotify.com/track/1G8iLg7Fq8UoJ1N3kuCKIp?si=C1knRdpnSd2IDCjZbLIPcw

Melancholy Rose

Thorns be welcome to the 

Blood of Melancholy Rose

Skin both pale and painted by the
Graphics of her prose

Appetites for darkness 

Pouring slurry into light

Loneliness surrounding Rose
Fed the black to night

Bracing for each season of the

Time she pays the toll

Sleeping just a respite to a

Fury in her soul

Victim to fates choosing

Computations for her life

Crushed by rock of ages and

A Damiclean knife

Hope a thing of beauty

Understood yet all askew

As the tunnel into twilights

Bitter madness comes to view

Screaming to the blindness like

A dragon on the lance

Death among the shadows

Born again in every dance

Battered by the breakers
On the rocks of her own shore

Terrors twisted whirlwind
Comes a horseman to the door

Never certain of an outcome
Favored only by the odds

Rose rides her race through chaos
Thoughts of winning to her gods

-Hermit King-

For Dani

https://open.spotify.com/track/3aMaemFVNV2VWS9TftJrhc?si=G1cvERS_Qe6abfANU-O0Ng

Mom

Monument and temple

Rearing rich and ragged life

Adam did not know it

Neither Eve until she was

Magic soothing memory

Fleeting dust

A deep sure song of peace

Refills this urn

And melts my heart of stone

-Hermit King-

https://open.spotify.com/track/5DHqLphJ84FFmwE7Jw1sHY?si=i_aE007IRNG4kyaaNu-Y3A

Katie's Prayer

Shades of heaven breaching night

Rage of joys on high

A lady fair comes worthy

Kneeling proudly at Gods thigh


Of Memmott Ham and Gurney

Katie's strong and tested way

We wish her homeward journey

Grateful kneeling as we pray


As visions swimming vapors

Spiral slowly into man

Beside her stands a David

And another called I Am


Welcome gentle woman

May this mansion bring you peace

Alladins magic carpet

Where your blessings never cease


On wings of singing whispers

Heavens prince I Am blew town

Davids hands encased embraced her

Saying Kate you ought sit down


Kate my love a place is set

In truth its all so clear

Nothing ever makes you fat

And the drinks bring only cheer


Know relatives and histories

Roots we ran to trace

From origins to legends

All the givers of our grace


Round us gifted music

No one heeds to hateful wars

Hear all the heavens singing

To the mystic dance of stars


Ever we will travel light

In thought were just then there

Honey we can race the sun

And visit everywhere


Lay down my lovely Katie

On your mighty mansion grass

the greatest challenge calling

you and me til all must pass


This prayer is what I wish her

If indeed it's must she go

Katie's never really leaving

Just awaiting her next show

-Hermit King-

https://open.spotify.com/track/1tj0LdPyDOPMWI60FTVKY6?si=m_e4XLpfR7WCwJTchs61Eg

Fathers Free Fertilizer

Feed, do not force.

 They will always break bread. 

Find, dont forget. 

They will heed to your head.

 Face and dont fail them,

 They'll stay far from hell,

  Free, never fedder.

 They'll opt to lead well.

 Father, dont friend. 

They'll build better dreams.

 Few are but these

Of an old Father's schemes.

-Hermit King-

https://open.spotify.com/track/6jypaMkKsoc5npsVzxhksl?si=hg6W4EsAQW2cPKrafaIFCw

Whiskey Rose

Lively watered days before

Beaten down upon the floor

Expecting not to feel the pain

Angels dew had offed her brain

Lo the sting of drunkards tile

Oft to strike her ducking smile

Makes you think she'd opt to quit

Nope!, she wears a catchers mitt

Now with glass and glove in place

Tiles call, she'll catch her face

So pitch another down the bar

Games not overcome so far

See she stays within the bases

Dodging traps within the chases

Lifes a light touch on the toes

Playing catch 

with

 Whiskey Rose.

-Hermit King-

https://open.spotify.com/track/5GszBUwWj4j942qzkIwQ2R?si=sGEJ51B4RSulAoSCier_3Q

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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