The Rabbit Hole

4′ x 4′ Oil on Canvas

18″ x 18″ Acrylic on Canvas

4′ x 4′ Oil on Canvas

3′ x 4′ Oil on Canvas

3′ x 4′ Oil on Canvas

18″ x 24″ Oil on Canvas

 

I've stood up for many
held the ground while they passed
fought against demons and monsters
and cast the shadows from the night
I've given where few others have

I'm worn out now
just a husk of who I was
the years have broken me
trampled my strength and resolve  
who will now stand for me?

Sushi

I had a pet fish once

We didn’t really speak

I kept him in a fish bowl

Feed him twice a week

I used to watch him swimming

I’m sure he watched me too

I used to watch him watch me

There was nothing else to do

Every time I approached him

He’d swim up to the top

I used to really enjoy that too bad it had to stop

You see although we were friends

Like I said we didn’t speak

It really was all my fault I forgot to feed him for a week

When I finally went to see him

He wasn’t looking very good

Sort of sat there floating

Just like a piece of wood

I knew I had to say goodbye

But I didn’t really rush

Because as you can probably guess

I said it with a flush

Elysian Fields

Anguish consumes me, swallows my soul

Waves crashing taking their toll

The winds are blowing the horizon lost

Wrapped in torment now the cost

The ferryman waits to receive this day

Stands in silence awaits his pay

Through hells water he’ll ferry me

My soul now captive, never free

Tears once wet, now are dried

Wailing souls judged and tried

Styx and Lethe we’ve sailed past

There waters black where souls were cast

Nerves are flailed I await the dawn

We sail on now all hope is gone

My journey now cast in stone

In the prow I stand alone

The river Cocytus waters flow

Sounds of wailing grow and grow

Lost souls now search for life

Look to me to relieve their strife

My journey done my future torn

Beleth waits his legions sworn

Valac’s dragon near brings dread

To the fallen scourge devoid and dead

I call to Gabriel to come take my hand

And free me from this tortured land

Areal responds and shakes his head

Leaves me burning in lands of dead

Taken now to Hades halls

Souls in pain hung on walls

Jury stands to judge remorse

To keep me here their stated course

Tried and convicted I stand and wait

Gadreel will sentence me my fate

Cast down now in eternal fray

I kneel clasp hands and quietly pray

Blinding light now fills my mind

Uriel come my hands unbinds

Save my soul I cry with, zeal

Uriel cries and calls Azrael

Damned in dark now damned in light

Taken from loves true sight

Sent know to Styxs dark shore

There to wait for a lifetime more

Never now my soul will yield

And walk upon Elysian Field

Hearts Content

I stand alone on Hearts Content

My spirit broken my soul now spent

A storm is coming and bearing down

It sought me out and now I’m found

It moves of will, where I go

If it will pass me, I cannot know

The winds scream, howling a name

I reel and twist hammered by rain

My soul is crushed, under weight

I push, it holds, it won’t abate

I should let it win tear me asunder

Push my soul into darkness under

The anguish holds me as I look to the sea

The storm rips as I turn to flee

Where to hide this anguished night

When will this beast be gone from sight

For it is said that all storms pass

I pray and hope this is the last

She’s upon me now I feel her grip

I lose myself my soul will slip

In the eye I have lost the shore

I have given myself and pray no more

Rules that held me down and still

Have cleaved my soul taken my will

I look to set the balance straight

Battered and hidden it must not wait

Still I give and shall for always stay

True to the storm every day

I have bared myself to the storms will

The truth stays hidden and now lays still

My soul revealed I stand on height

Will I give in and fall this night

I have pledged to live through this storm

and shall hold dear my oath now sworn

And someday soon the storm may see

not what was then but what could be

Someday maybe the storm will pass

I am as I have been and so will last

The winds may calm and my soul will be

Upon the edge and cast to sea

I step out now my soul is spent

and stand no longer on Hearts Content

The Battle of Elysians Field

                                 I am branded Furcas, a purveyor of death

Angels above concede my breadth

Words lose worth when spoken many

Who’s left to listen if there be any

Heed my sins for they cast me down

Now dark legions my fidelity found

I’ve slaughtered and defaced many a man

Left leas of blood now none command

I’ve destroyed souls from children lost

Taken lives and paid no cost

I stand here now to reveal the story

Of a war in heaven in all its glory

There was a night that saw Angels cry

Hades came they knew not why

Angel warriors by Michael’s side

Lesser Angels in horror cried

Clouds rose menacing in heavens sky

Darkness falls as Angels die

Lands once shone in all Gods glory

Filled with armies awaiting quarry

Smoke now conceals the fields once bright

Celestial soldiers stand ready to fight

The legions awaited trumpets to hear

Sworn to God their faith held dear

Our allegiance to God taken back

Fallen Angels our souls are black

Bathin’s gallop into the night

Began the war to set things right

Angels stood and held their ground

And legions fought as trumpets sound

Lines were drawn, dark legions held

Nameless Angels now soon fell

Baal standing high sends commands

His dark forces to make a stand

God now heeds Lucifer’s demand

Calls the seven to take a stand

Michael stands and heralds all G

abriel and Raphel heed his call

Uriel and Zerachiel now appear

Remiel and Raguel now are near

Seven Archangels stand in light

Together now defend the night

Lucifier summoned his demon horde

To arise and fight against the Lord

Beelzebub comes to seduce with pride

Leviathin’s heresy now is cried

Asmodeus and Berith come this night

Astroth and Verrine prepare to fight

Battalions mass under Archangels guise

Force the battle and fight the lies

Raphel stands to face the horde

Unsheathes his lethal holy sword

Strikes down Astroth with a mighty blow

Stands victorious swathed in a glow

Leviathin strikes Uriel with force

Ureil’s demise may alter the course

Uriel now broken and lost his sight

Must forsake the field, leave the fight

Zerachiel draws a mighty bow

Takes aim and lets one go

Staying true the arrow strikes

Verrine’s life it now does take

Asmodeus and Remiel now do fall

Raphel too can’t heed the call

Angels and demons fall this night

Twelve now total removed from fight

Lucifer stands dark and cold

Michael answers an Angel bold

Two now meet on heavens fields

From the dawn of time fates were sealed

Lucifers holds with a defiant stance

Michael’s sword begins its dance

Two angels under crimson skies

The intent of two that one will die

Noise rang throughout the night

Angels fought into the light

Mornings rises both still stand B

alance reached throughout the land

A blinding light outshines the day

Two angels gone now sent away

Lucifer damned from Gods’ grace

Michael rises and resumes his place

Heed my words and pray thee tell

Thy children of war, the war from hell

For Satan’s hordes in darkness wait

We have no love we live to hate

The Horsemen’s Last Ride

Darkness covers the horsemen four

Hunt by night bring blood and gore

Riding horses forged of steel

Souls now stone they do not feel

Searching grounds not their own

Horsemen hunt through sand and stone

Magic used guides their way

Leading horsemen to weary prey

Closer now the prey does come

Soon their souls to be undone

Rumblings rise through the night

Thunder crashed flashing light

Horses carry prey on high

Fight and scream before they die

Weapons drawn the horsemen stand

Tearing souls from a foreign land

Screams that rose fall away

Flashes blind, nights now day

Quiet comes the cost unknown

The horsemen split their souls alone

Fate, Destiny, Pestilence and War

One will stand where none before

Now alone he sees the sight

Horsemen’s carnage of the night

Spiritless eyes now look upon

Souls once there now are gone

Standing stooped now bent and torn

War stands still tired and worn

Fate now wanders lost and blind

Searching for what he now can’t find

Pestilence now gone from our view

Destiny’s heart, pain passed right through

The horsemen have wrought their mighty will

Blood and life their job to spill

Time is past War’s now gone home

Standing lost and on his own

An Angel sent to help will stand

To give his soul a guiding hand

Gone and forgotten his soul is lost

The horseman War now pays the cost

A Specter now he bows his head

And thinks of souls long since dead

The Angels soul is here no more

Darkness shrouds the horseman War

Time now done he bows his head

Breathe now children the Horseman’s dead

Black Storm

She rose in height surrounding me

Shattered waves and broken sea

Hid things from my watchful sight

Hit hard and cold turned day to night

Tossed and turned I lost my way

Live I would within that day

Battered bruised and broken back

Lost confused swells so black

Words of fury rose in height

Day so turbulent turned to night

Screams of winds looked for me

Wraith and fury set so free

Dark as pitch the sea does choke

Waves lunge over sides of oak

She rises throws me aside as waste

Salt frozen bitter mouths taste

Turn for home now lost to sight

Life on balance through this night

Waves alive now smell the fear

Reapers time draws quite near

The fight for life leaves me hollow

Death and mourning I feel will follow

She rises now in her pride and breadth

Wants to hold me in her depth

Cold and silent I scream no sound

My voice is gone and can’t be found

Moving forward I fight it back

Through the day of night now so black

Push and struggle to see the shore

Tired and beaten I want no more

Waves subside from mothers hand

Winds die down close to land

I look towards to passing storm

My body beaten tired and worn

I lose myself no words are spoke

My body slides over sides of oak

Dragon Dreams

I have dreamed of life in a magic way

Gone to places in the light of day

Stood on shores in a far off land

Walked with Queens hand in hand

I’ve climbed mountains that touched the sky

Watched as centaurs marched on by

Battled demons with dark dead eyes

Talked to trolls who told great lies

I’ve flown in worlds far away

And conquered kingdoms in just one day

Walked with a wizard under a foreign sky

Lived with Elves as time went by

Ran with Dwarves underground

Hid treasures that couldn’t be found

Chased a Sprite through wood so green

Laughed with Wisps although not seen

I’ve danced with fairies in the pale moonlight

Spoke to witches in the dark of night

Rode a unicorn through crashing waves

Spoke with specters at their graves

Taught a Giant to speak to me

Chased a Griffon up a tree

But all that I’ve seen and done

Nothing can compare to one

Flew on a dragon, scales bright red

Massive wings, a broad smooth head

Talons like obsidian glisten bright

Eyes that saw like day in night

We flew through together like hand in hand

Explored the mountains seas and land

Saved a princess from her keep

Teased and played and scared some sheep

Fought together in times of war

Protect souls by the score

Stayed together through thick and thin

Together we knew we’d always win

We flew together since I was young

Made up songs to be sung

We’ve play hide and seek in fields of gold

Now we don’t we’ve grown quite old

We’ll fly on together into the sun

When it’s right and our time is done

Until then we will fly and ascend

My dragon and I …. my only friend

The Horseman War

Standing alone on a forgotten shore

The Horseman War feels no more

Too much pain wrought on many

Forgiveness gone if there be any

What care he for those once there

Admit his need he would not dare

Attention given, words once heeded

His soul now stoic none are needed

Pestilence once held called a friend

Now forgotten his time did end

Destiny now lost from others sight

Things once held destroyed in night

Fate now lost in the eternal abyss

War heeds none, none be missed

All the wraiths once firm by side

All now gone, all have died

In solitude now the Horseman

War Standing alone on a forgotten shore

Harth the Troll

This is the story of Harth the troll

It’s better spoken in the ways of old

For it’s a story of his waning heart

And the forest he could not part

You see he was a quiet troll

He loved big hugs, had a gentle soul

He used to spend many a day

Watching a fairy in her joyful play

He met her on a morning bright

She smiled at him his heart did light

Since that day she’s been in his heart

He loves that fairy and dares not part

Sadly though it was not to be

A trolls are mean and quite ugly

When they met they felt the same

But the trolls’ behavior was to blame

At first they’d talk, laugh and play

There together as one each day

The fairy loved to feel and talk

The ugly troll would growl and balk

She tried so hard to help him change

But a troll is dark and very strange

Time went by and she grew quite weary

His mood was foul and awfully dreary

She wanted only to live in peace

He didn’t seem to care the least

She waited long and hoped he’d come

To be with her, play in the sun

And then on a fatefully day

She no longer came to play

Harth knew he was not nice

Knew sometimes his soul was ice

He never told her how he felt

Never told her his ice she’d melt

He never told her of his love

He knew was sent from above

He never talked of his fear

Of losing one he loved so dear

So many things never told

He’d love till he was old

All the things he should have said

Didn’t come from a soul now dead

Harth the troll now sits alone

With a broken heart a soul of stone

Although he had changed his heart

It took too long for him to part

So all of you who read this story

Don’t forget he’s alone and sorry

Brought about by his own fate

For making the lovely fairy wait

If the truth you refuse to see

Once she’s gone alone you’ll be

Harth the troll has slipped from life

Never to have her as his wife

Although he prays she’ll forgive

Alone he knows he’ll always live

Dragons Flight

Red wings spread across the sky

On invisible winds we do now fly

Rising in the morning breeze

Our flight of fancy done with ease

Floating here we feel the sun

Our morning flight has just begun

Lands that passes far below

Holds no concern we do not go

We travel on our unseen line

Head through hardship, life and time

How long our flight will finally last

We cannot know until it’s passed

We see below a broken man

Can’t feel it now but know we can

From this height we can only stare

To save ourselves we cannot care

These winds keep us on our flight O

ur eyes now wait the solace night

Over oceans we do now soar S

ent to serve for half a score

Banners now we wear with pride

Our flight now will take a side

Scorching now the earth below

Dragons’ fire consumes our soul

We turn now from this chosen line

Look for peace we hope to find

Soaring now we coast through clouds

Our sight and thoughts in fog now shroud

Coasting now we seek new hope

Seeking help for life to cope

Light from above assaults our eyes

Shred the clouds and clear the skies

Descending now a Seraph appears

Fills our void our souls now hear

Seized now by this heavenly sight

Fear now holds this precarious flight

The battle now within our soul

Forgiveness not to be foretold

In panic now of what we’ve sought

Our flight we know is worth naught

Turning now from angels sent

Fear of triumph our flight now spent

Winds now calm clouds fill the sky

Onward now we so do fly

Spiraling down we slowly fall

For the Angel we now do call

Seeking pardon from time gone past

We offer what we know will last

Wings now hold a precarious flight

Higher now for the coming night

My dragon and I hope for the best

To find a place we both can rest

Holding hope we stay our place

Waiting for the Angels grace

Springs Dance

The troll stomped his feet, it was another gloomy day

He wished he could send those dark clouds away

February skies were never that nice

They threatened with rain, with snow and with ice

He wondered what to do to make it more fun

Bring back the spirit that he got in the sun

He tried signing songs but his voice shook the ground

Scared all the creatures who lived close around

He dressed in bright colours that would sparkled in light

But in the grey of the clouds it looked more like night

He tried painting flowers but the day was too glum

Nothing he did really felt like much fun

What could a troll do to chase away the blues

He tried tap dancing in his beautiful suede shoes

Nothing he tried seemed to help him at all

He had no one to talk too no one to call

He decide to go out and walk through the town

To see if someone could help, someone he found

He walked to the ocean to see who was there

When he spotted a maiden with golden brown hair

She was sitting by the shore with a journal in hand

She was the prettiest maiden he had seen in this land

He looked at her face and she didn’t seem so happy

How could she be when the weathers so crappy

The troll knew right then he just had to try

To help make this maiden see the sun in the sky

As she looked out the troll suddenly appeared

He was dressed like a clown he looked really weird

She was stunned by this troll he came from nowhere

He was dressed like a clown with flaming red hair

His nose it was round just like a ball

His pants held by strings, she thought they might fall

She watched as this troll started to dance

He moved like a log with baggy blue pants

He wasn’t very graceful as he moved all about

He stumbled and tripped and his shirt it flew out

She shouted “Dear Troll tell me why is it you dance”

“With your red flaming hair and baggy blue pants”

He said “I’m trying so hard to drive out the grey” “

I wanted so much to see you smile on this day”

She couldn’t help but smile how could she not

A dancing blue troll who would have thought

He then sat by her side and held her small hand

She was the prettiest maiden, in all of the land

“Take heart my little one” he said with a wink “

“Spring it is coming much sooner than you think”

“The sun will soon shine and brighten the way”

“Taking away the dull February day”

He took her hand and asked her to walk

So they strolled down the beach and giggled and talked

As they walked away into the day that was grey

They skipped and sang and brightened the day

It is said that in February when it’s just about spring

If you listen really closely you’ll hear the two sing

They share it together, the grey of the day

They sing and they giggle and chase it away

So remember this story whenever you’re down

About the lovely fair maiden and dancing troll clown