Veronika Van Epp

Burlington, West Virginia

I live my poetry and hope it creates an echo in your heart.

TEKOHA RYAPU

The future hails the past
Drums vibrate the stars
The moon descends to flier the dance
Magistral hands heal with incandescence

Timeless wisdom that magnifies the Cordillera
Reverberating laughter caressing the universe
A magyars tears stilled by touch and healing chants
The Ava Katuete, God's
dreams they keep alive...

Adesdum

I am the earth that lies beneath your feet
I am the sky that domes above your head
I am the space between the two
I am the sun
I am the moon
I am the seasons
I am you...

COPALIS

Winds containing a thousand sounds
Waves repeating ageless myth's and truth
Sands gathering to fill a million hands
Sky exploding, creating miracles

A song emerging
Bridging, coalescing, uniting
The spirits of creation
With heaven, with earth and within

Faith and dreams escalating the chorus
Impelling and commanding
The canvas to release its colors
To come alive...

SACRARIUM

Palm measured, perclosed by metes and bounds and monuments
Soft echoes of millennia, cuneiform memory stored by nature and departed dwellers
Ghat rising to ancient mountains and riverbank, shale engraved by the sea
Gated entry permits a hagioscope view of the finite herion

A solitary stranger enters this parvis, walking carefully on the patina ground
Adjuring the spirits of nearby ossuaries to join the opus of this final place
Open hands reaching for ovum mundi, fervent plea to enter the penetrale
Ligumvitae allows passage to create panopticon and illusory fane

Proclaiming sanctity, a temporary sagitta tries to induct indefectible order
Healing harmonic sounds evolve and arise to adorn the peristerium for the human phon
Confinis actions, licit orion, creating wounding; too deep to forgive
Actuating closure to all that fail to touch life with sacrosanct, preserving spirit

The architect acclaimed by sights and sounds of winged creations
Gentle greetings by forest friends, delicate footprints marking their passing
Caressing winds, dancing clouds, nights with jewelled pendants high above
A touch of infinity that gives the gift of sight of what lies beyond...