D’lyla K. Ravyn
Publisher/ Artist/ Poet
Born in Chicago of Hispanic /Potawatomi decent, her poems appeared in print for over ten years in various books, zines, and newspapers. A self-taught painter specializing in surrealism and mystical themes, she’s been a featured artist for numerous art festivals and galleries in and around the Chicagoland area.
In 2005 she founded 5th House Press and published “Urban Life Through Ancient Eyes†and “Poets & Alchemists†the following year, both recieving nationwide reviews and sales. Samples of her art, writing, and book projects are on this page. See blogs for details and events around Chicago.
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Poetic Alchemy
We listen to the laughter of children
to recall joy in its purest state.
You could never tell a child
a dandelion is not a flower.
Ever notice how the very small and terminally ill
are the most adept at living?
They leave tomorrow to the mystics.
We begin a pilgrimage towards metamorphosis.
Pollinated deep yet faint in the subconscious
are visions beyond the mundane.
Maps that lead between the living and the dead
leave paper trails for both sides to follow.
Change must be swift when certain.
So we’ve stopped pacing softly
and speaking lightly.
When we begin to believe in ourselves,
we begin to believe in a higher power.
Our lives become a glass-spun sonnet,
written across the universe as a manifesto.
Each race and religion
are chapters in the Book of Humanity,
and we are its pages.
We are poetic alchemy.
Copyright 2007 by D’lyla K. Ravyn and 5th House Press
Excerpt from “Poets & Alchemists.â€
Archaic Lantern
The Vintage Spirit carries through the Ages,
memoirs of previous vitality.
The knowledge that life does not begin
in the uterus.
It begins eons away,
beyond the extensions of speculation.
The vessel is forgetful
but the life force recalls each existence as
a passing hour,
a quiet glance,
a psychic fingerprint upon glass.
Each transition ignites the archaic lantern.
The cerebral cortex unleashes its silver cord.
Unwinding a suspension of consciousness,
inside the time capsule of amniotic fluid.
Isolated infants of creation,
they choose amnesia over the correlation
between binary stars and flowers in June.
The odyssey is more significant
than the destination.
Juniper filled the sweat lodge,
as the Sage spoke
Tales of Tribal Genesis
and how the only sacrament is that
of aboriginal love.
Each birth is but a wrinkle in time.
Copyright 2007 by D’lyla K. Ravyn and 5th House Press
Excerpt from “Urban Life Through Ancient Eyes.â€
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Archangel Michael