KNOW THYSELF
Or, selves? - O head-long Ram!
Alpha dude on the highest peak,
sure and fleet-footed, glint-eyed, long-sighted;
precipitate actor, nimble escapee
with great horn-buttressed head.
Survivals own spunky mountaineer, champion.
Warrior, watcher, surveyor.
O Bull!
Serene in your daisy-decked meadow,
home-spun property magnate
of your own hedonistic castle
- never a china shop.
Leave well alone! Wave no red rags!
Marathon endurer, monolith of tender, weight-bearing strength.
♊️ Whatabout those duplicitous twins?
mirror-imaged, nimble fingered, worded;
Who is which? Who am I?
Interchangeable halves - or divided selves?
Speedy readers, tricksy, talkers, wits;
For ever fiddling and fretting.
All over the joint - smartie party’s own.
O crabby Crab!
scuttling off to your safe hidey holes
or, snap! snap!
nip off affronting fingers or toes,
bite off heads or tongues, for the cheek.
All soft inside that hardy carapace.
Tackling life sideways
Busy recluses.
O Leo!
Master of the Jungle
proud of the pride, playful and bossy
-top-dog and layabout king.
The body says it all - in your face!
the look, eye, commanding stance.
Preceding the lovely virgin, devotee!
in-body-aholic, ego-rare, hands-on.
The trusty therapists repair shop.
The PA specialist. World server.
Onto a non-creaturely device
- half-way round the clock!
Yet to find its principle overlord.
A two-part measuring, balancing
machine, obsessed with inbetween.
Little that is feely, immediate here -
in its bloodless, remote-controlling mind.
A dithering, big-mouth peace-maker without conviction.
. Observer, agent provocateur, dilettante.
polarizer, word-dabbler,
Haver and eater of chocolate cakes.
To the satiate, O Scorpion!
No messing. Cut to the chase.
Doth the dark thing stir in its pits
when blood or death prevail?
Harbinger of the androgyne.
King-maker, power-monger, midwife, psychopomp, executioner;
bringer-down of empires and hubris.
Run to the Centaur, O!
High on his options, his arrows and folly;
gadding all over the place
tripping into every trap.
Life is an exciting adventure
for the eternal child - inner and outer.
Seeker, hunter, gambler
drama-queen, sycophant, head-in air.
O glorious Goat!
foursquare and footed on terra firma.
Miracle digester of refuse
disregarder of hype and nicety;
Cronus-ruled master of reversals:
growing youthful with age
wise when young
- despite cricketty knees
and a hard, hard head.
Next, is an artifact, an element
or dispassionate Doer?
Giver of Life. Birther of future worlds.
Evolutions free-thinking darling.
Pragmatic idealist. Seer. Iconoclast.
Independent, individual Groupies.
Plural idiosyncrasy.
O Fish!
twosome, either way or every;
back to front, contradicting, matching.
Adept disappearer. Boundary-shy.
Elemental Rep of all things edgeless.
The sage, the luminous saint,
agape lovers - sacrificial, cosmic.
Some consider a constellation lurking
In the hinterlands, tagged on to Pluto’s domain, between Serpens and Antares.
- a superman, a borg or beast?
Ophiuchus, the forgotten.
Magnetical serpent and light-bearer.
But are any of those, truly I - the Self?
or merely (aspects of…) me!