The Hammer Falls

The Hammer Falls
I hear your name
The Hammer Falls
I feel your pain
The Hammer Falls
And houses tumble
The Hammer Falls
And people crumble

The Hammer Falls
in blood it’s writ
The Hammer Falls
The land is split
The Hammer Falls
And blots the sun
The Hammer Falls
Nowhere to run

So this is it
Our call to action
Lets go and put
Our pointed hats on
For they may rule the day
But through the dark we’ll bring the dawn
Our Phoenix rises
From the Ashes hope is born

The Hammer Falls
But we’re not broken
The Hammer Falls
Our hearts are open
The Hammer Falls
We’re on the rise
The Hammer Falls
We fill the skies

The Hammer Falls
Our temper’s strong
The Hammer Falls
Our reach is long
The Hammer Falls
We will not die
The Hammer Falls
Remember why

So this is it
Our call to action
Lets go and put
Our pointed hats on
For they may rule the day
But through the dark we’ll bring the dawn
Our Phoenix rises
From the Ashes hope is born
From the Ashes hope is born

So this is it
Our call to action
Lets go and put
Our pointed hats on
For they may rule the day
But through the dark we’ll bring the dawn
Our Phoenix rises
From the Ashes hope is born
From the Ashes hope is born

© AM (Xander) Hunter March 2025

You Call to Me

You call to me
On a moonlit night
You flow through me like honey
Pure blissful delight

You call to me
And I ache to hear
You weave through me such music
Two souls dancing near

You call to me
And your voice sounds like silver
Forked lightning
You burn through me
You burn

You call to me
I can see your eyes
Twin suns ablaze with fire
A golden sunrise

You call to me
My heart’s not my own
I feel you all around it
You’ve made it your home

You call to me
And your voice sounds like silver
Forked lightning
You burn through me
You burn

You call to me
I walk down your path
All falls away to darkness
My light is your laugh

You call to me
I float in your deep
You ring me in blue fire
And swallow to keep

You call to me
And your voice sounds like silver
Forked lightning
You burn through me
You burn

You call to me
And your voice sounds like silver
Forked lightning
You burn through me
You burn

You burn

© AM (Xander) Hunter August 2024

Astra’s Rose

For Astra; welcome to the family

Journey through His open wolfen jaws
Hear His howl
It is the light that guides you down
His howl
It is the light that guides you down
Till here you are beneath between
Among the sacred WildWood green

Hear Her laughter, follow through Her door
Feel Her thorns
A pathway that leads to Her rose
Her thorns
A pathway that leads to Her rose
And here you are to rest awhile
Held by Her healing sacred smile

Earth and stone leads to His face of leaves
See Him Dance
Its Light and Shadow show you how
His dance
Of Light and Shadow show you how
To live the way your heart can sing
At one with WildWood’s sacred kin

Take Her silken threads in both your hands
Sense Her web
And with Her you will spin your Fate
Her web
And with Her you will spin your Fate
For you are one with WildWood now
You hold your rose and sound your howl

Your howl

© AM (Xander) Hunter May 2024

Song – Astra’s Rose

Hear my Call

Floating through the silence
I call out to thee
Arms reaching widely
To hold you to me
I see you floating freely
Upon my sea of stars
Facing the blackness
That’s hiding our hearts.

I breathe and it moves me
I feel it flow through you
Even in this stillness
Between me and you
I call but you don’t hear me
You’re deaf, blind, and dumb
Ignite the flame within you
For I am that one.

Your flame smolders softly
And sparks you into life
You begin to move towards me
Awakened, alight
Body slowly forming
From the dust of my stars
Yet that ache continues
Your gaze lost and sparse.

My fingers reach out to you
I hold your hand in mine
Two becoming one again
Golden harp divine
Our hearts sing to each other
We are all and we are one
Blazing together
Brighter than the sun.

© AM (Xander) Hunter November 2023

Echoes from a song of Iron

Alien
This feeling
Of otherness
Separateness
Being torn
From some
Memory
Of union
Oneness
That was once
But is no more
It burns
To touch this
Stuff
That houses my
True Self
Such ugly layers
Thingness
Heavy
Dull
Each movement
Awkward
Uncomfortable
Unclean
This messiness
Is not me
It is my prison
Nothing more
The flow
So beautiful
Enticing
Haunting
Laughing at my
Misery
Thickness clogging
Solid
Hard
Nothing flows
Anymore
Except in the
Heart of my mind’s
Eye
In that space
I remember
Re Member
Myself
Back to the
Nothingness
The void that is
All
Centre
Everything
In that space
Between breath
And death
I am somehow
Whole
Myself
In all my splendour
Only here am I
Truly me
Everything else is
The half-remembered
Dream
Of One who once
Was starlight
And infinite

(c) AM (Xander) Hunter November 2023

The Moon is So Pretty

For Hyunjin

Staring up at the moon
Light reaching out
Pulsing

Like the blood
In my
Veins

Life’s river

Making its way
Over
And through
Till it reaches home

Sometimes shadowed
Or tinged blood red
Surrounded by darkness

Is it the same moon
That you see?

You know it’s that
Darkness
That makes the moon
Shine
So brightly

You are my moon

So far away
And yet so close
I could
Almost
Reach up and
Touch
Your face

Bringing such joy
Just by being
you

Even in darkness
Your light
Helps me find my
Heart
Like a lantern
I hold it up and
Find my way

If I’m the moon
Then it’s the moon by day
Hidden by light
Surrounded by the bright

Noone sees me there
Barely visible
Do I even care
As long as I
Can be me?
In all my me-ness?

Shadows all around
Making stupid noises
Stubbing my toe
Knowing that
I still shine
Regardless

Maybe someone
Looks up
Sees me
Like I see you

I look at its brightness
And shine
Borrowing its light
Matching it with mine

The moon is so pretty

Poem – The Moon is so Pretty

© July 2023 AM (Xander) Hunter

Waterfall

I was wandering through the woods on a day
When the sun and the moon shared the sky
As the clouds and the shadows told the sun stay away
My head was stuck on the question of why
So I stopped by a clump of pine trees to think
And around me they came on the breeze in a blink

There were at least four or five so fair and so tall
That I thought I was somehow in a dream
They were both here and there held in both light and shade
And yet still somewhere quite in between
Then one took their hand and drew a long line of light
In the air what was day held a doorway made of night

I knew somehow that if I followed them through
I would breathe no more beneath this sun and moon
And I traced my life as it was from my birth
And I found I did not want to die this soon
Their laughter rang like music through the trees
And it was so sweet it was surely done to please

One stepped through the doorway from night into day
And their gaze stabbed me right behind my eyes
Their face shone in a way that held me in fear
Like they could see me through my everyday disguise
Then they reached through my chest and grabbed hold of my heart
And they read my true name the one I’ve held right from the start

So I found myself crying out deep in pain
As if they poked a wound that never really heals
And it seemed to me that they felt the same
Yet their eyes told me they would never yield
So I found myself turn and start to run
As I needed my skin to feel the warmth of the sun

From that moment on my life was contained
Like I was held within a magic crystal ball
And no matter where I ran or what delight I craved
It seemed that I was surrounded by a wall
Its shadow cast me deep into the dark
It bled me out like a blade right through my heart

While at night I was haunted by their shining face
Though distorted and twisted and unreal
Their slender fingers reach like daggers of bone
Through my flesh around my heart I could feel
Till I awoke one day and realized that no more
Could I turn my back I could never close that door

Once again I wandered deep into the woods
Waiting for the day the sky held sun and moon
And I began working at a hole in that wall
So that I could squeeze through it sometime soon
And then maybe I could travel deep into the night
Through a door in the air with its edges made of light

And deep into the river of life I would plunge
To be held by its ever-loving arms
Until it takes me away high into the hills
Where the rainbow of light and water charms
This time when they come I will be ready for the sight
Cause their call to my heart makes it shatter with delight

With their hand in mine I will at last find my rest
Cause their fate and mine are both entwined
And when I look with wonder once again into that face
I will notice that it is the same as mine
I’m not talking about the one that’s flesh and bone
But the silver song that we both will know as home

Cause our souls are cords of shining silver light
That weave around each other like two snakes
No matter how many lives we travel through
Our hearts will reach across to ease the ache
Though towards the rocks we are hurled every time
Like a waterfall we dance through the divine

Click to listen to the song version

Watch the video of the Poetry version (below)

© AM (Xander) Hunter – October 2022

About the song

Walking With My Shadows

From behind me green eyes sparkle
And he licks his jagged teeth
Starts grabbing at my beating heart
But it is kept out of his reach
For my heart it is well guarded
By her blood red thorny rose
So back into the ethers
His shadowed form does go

As I turn another corner
Of my winding crooked way
A little faun is following me
But he’s being kept at bay
For my Guardian is holding me
In his huge protective arms
And his silken voice keeps telling me
To beware of his charms

My feet they keep on wandering
Through the darkly lit woodlands
Around me eyes are glistening
And making hungry plans
For the light that glows and shows the way
Is a magnet strong and true
Towards it are drawn many things
That would like to hold it to

For without a light a shadow
By the darkness is absorbed
So the hungry eyes keep watching me
And they take their shadowed form
Shrieking cries I hear as music
As I walk my crooked path
And I find that I am singing with them
And share my light of Art

So to me they start their whispering
Of their secrets and of skills
Of ancient deep pooled knowledge
From within these hallowed hills
As I work my Art I see them there
Holding circles guarding ways
They open up such mysteries
And spread them for my gaze

But to think they are all friendly
Would turn me into a feast
The dinner bell would sound aloft
And the hungry ones would eat
So I share my light with kindred
And they protect my fragile form
Together we are stronger than
The chasm, fire, and storm

From behind me green eyes sparkle
And he licks his jagged teeth
Starts grabbing at my beating heart
But it is kept out of his reach
For my heart it is well guarded
By her blood red thorny rose
So back into the ethers
His shadowed form does go

© AM (Xander) Hunter September 2022

Fairytales have Answers

Searching for answers I don’t know
What the questions are
When life is overwhelming me
And where to head is far
Directions spin like children’s toys
I am the dust of stars
Drifting through these endless days
Spreading near and far

My heart is filled with darkness and then
Sudden bursts of light
My arms hold the universe
I sing mist into night
Across the blackened sea me myself I
Sail over the moon
Night may hold eternity
But Dawn comes all too soon

Gather up my ponderings I
Enfold them in my breath
Give them to the winds of fate
My uncertain quest
Dancing on the swirling breeze they
Travel far and wide
While I await here patiently
On this eternal ride

A labyrinth of endless pain
Contains my question mark
Wrapped in soul I feel my way
Fight shadows in the dark
Endless turning pulls me free from
My embodied state
Shattered pieces lie before my
Shining three-fold gate

And when there’s nothing left but echoes
In the screaming winds
Deep waters swirling still
From where I might have been
A pile of scattered blackened ash that’s
Still warm from the spark
I find myself facing me
Reflections in the glass

In my quest for truth and wisdom I hold
Close the central part
That it is the journeying
Connecting mind to heart
I am the brightest flame above
The deepest darkest well
Shining in my loving arms
Myself my answers tell

Fairytales have answers
My fairytales have answers

What is your question?

© AM (Xander) Hunter August 2022

One Path Forked

For my Fetch, my Soul, my Twin

Home
That which holds me
Seeps into my bones
And through my hair
My stoney heart
Is His
My eyes
Windows into His soul
My body
Shaped by Him
To walk His path
We are one
He and I
Entwined
Like serpents
That somehow merge
Becoming the same
Two sides
Yet
When you trace them
You find
They are one
One path
Forked
Rejoining
He is my home
And I am His
Fate and Fire
Fetch and Soul
Eternal
Yet embodied
We
Are me

© AM (Xander) Hunter July 2022