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    Gaia: A Mystical Epic
    Gaia: A Mystical Epic
    Gaia: A Mystical Epic
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    Gaia: A Mystical Epic

    By Alex Andor Skanavis

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    Gaia is a poem of epic proportions following the
    journey of specially designed creatures for repairing
    the earth after an unknown cataclysm leaves the crust in
    ruins. Written entirely in rhyme, with alternating verses of
    sonnets and original meters, the interlocking words refl ect
    a connection with all life, as inspired by Terence McKenna,
    Eastern philosophy, and the modern rise of visionary art.
    The result is a psychedelic odyssey through mind-bending
    landscapes and clues to the earths collapse, all the while
    catapulting the imagination through other dimensions. As
    the quest accelerates, they are taken out of body and mind
    and into the spirit world. Fifty chapters comprise this fi rst
    poem book in the series, later to be revisited in the second
    book Galaxia.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateApr 5, 2012
    ISBN9781466915350
    Gaia: A Mystical Epic
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    Alex Andor Skanavis

    Alex Andor Skanavis is a Wisconsin-based poet heavily inspired by twentieth-century naturalist philosophers Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Jack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsberg, whose words became an ideal medium for imparting the exuberance of nature and ecology. Finding that the Divine Comedy Trilogy by Italian poet Dante could use an update as a naturalism manifesto (using the fluctuating conditions of Earth’s ecology as the analogy for heaven and hell), he completed his first book Gaia in 2012, now succeeded by the heavenly realms of Galaxia. Alex graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison with an English degree for creative writing in 2013.

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      Gaia - Alex Andor Skanavis

      Gaia

      A Mystical Epic

      Alex Andor Skanavis

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      © Copyright 2012 Alex Andor Skanavis.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.

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      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012902706

      Trafford rev. 03/29/2012

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      CONTENTS

      CHAPTER I

      CHAPTER II

      CHAPTER III

      CHAPTER IV

      CHAPTER V

      CHAPTER VI

      CHAPTER VII

      CHAPTER VIII

      CHAPTER IX

      CHAPTER X

      CHAPTER XI

      CHAPTER XII

      CHAPTER XIII

      CHAPTER XIV

      CHAPTER XV

      CHAPTER XVI

      CHAPTER XVII

      CHAPTER XVIII

      CHAPTER XIX

      CHAPTER XX

      CHAPTER XXI

      CHAPTER XXII

      CHAPTER XXIII

      CHAPTER XXIV

      CHAPTER XXV

      CHAPTER XXVI

      CHAPTER XXVII

      CHAPTER XXVIII

      CHAPTER XXIX

      CHAPTER XXX

      CHAPTER XXXI

      CHAPTER XXXII

      CHAPTER XXXIII

      CHAPTER XXXIV

      CHAPTER XXXV

      CHAPTER XXXVI

      CHAPTER XXXVII

      CHAPTER XXXVIII

      CHAPTER XXXIX

      CHAPTER XL

      CHAPTER XLI

      CHAPTER XLII

      CHAPTER XLIII

      CHAPTER XLIV

      CHAPTER XLV

      CHAPTER XLVI

      CHAPTER XLVII

      CHAPTER XLVIII

      CHAPTER XLIX

      CHAPTER L

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      To Isaac Asimov, and the Coalition for the

      Advancement of William Blake.

      CHAPTER I

      Bestowment

      The empires of the future will be empires of the mind.

      —Winston Churchill

      At century’s turn, the fulcrum was placed

      By foreknowing sages with brightness graced.

      Obscured in low-lit chamber den deep beneath ground,

      Prophets three incur gateway to foresights once found.

      Bestowed with time’s patterns and mobility

      Three see Earth approach fatal infertility.

      Incense adrift, clar’ty soaking through hooded hair,

      Simultaned senses accrue, anointing them aware.

      Shadows of looming events distill into forms:

      One path rooting renewal, the other stemming storms.

      Prophet Sheegaun propels smoke at asphyx’ated fern;

      With dawning dread he beheld the round urn

      Holding peat loam sprouting green with now withered grey tips.

      No self-defense could save earth from atomic eclipse!

      But knowledge of creatures, justice and plants

      Could certainly blend to alter Earth’s lapse.

      Science, the great gift, and Mana, the soul,

      May sanctify mankind’s oncoming blow.

      Bograu, wise speaker of trite rationale,

      Conferred his thoughts to his brethren locale:

      "Just as seeds so small do sprout and give green,

      So must we plant our stratagem supreme.

      If Good be o’ercome by deadly lust for wealth,

      So too will darkness collapse in on itself.

      For Earth to inherit new-hearted breeds,

      We must place deep into ground such like seeds.

      Better further, no lurk’d deceit shall ebb

      If all were tangled in mind-spanning web."

      The plan began forthwith, forty years passed;

      To inner depths below, their breeds amassed.

      Volatile weapons then destroyed Earth’s crust,

      Rocky strata to blistered air did thrust,

      Scarred with ruptured habitats once below,

      Came testament to this traumatic blow.

      Volcanic capillaries took to bloom,

      As chunks of former ground became new moons.

      While weary Earth’s soul, Gaia yet remained,

      The beings spanned its grace and were sustained

      Like ancient bees whose wise relationships

      Made actions synchronized, the Gaians glimpsed

      A brand new Loving planet to unfold;

      In Visions Intertwined these words be told.

      CHAPTER II

      Molten Gaia

      Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth.

      —Matthew 5:5

      In the broken mountains of Dead Earth’s ruptured flesh,

      Where singed, splintered spires and smoldering skies mesh,

      Silent sages cross shattered bridges of rotting igneous formations,

      Purged by rippling flames from underground caverns

      scourging with immolation.

      Warped, blackened structures subside into seas of magma,

      Enslaved to the blistering ashlands known as Black Gaia.

      Gathered as terror-branded denizens of earthly preservation,

      Scattered

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