Month: Nov 2023

• Future is Thick

  Cruel gangs bisect the turf Skinahans lot in the Beacon South Quarter Scartel everything between Aungier Street and the Liberty Stone Liberated from a Church Normandy named, sitting before boss’ throne A symbol to which fealty is offered Young lads swearing they have no skin in the game Cheffed up, found eyeless, no skin hung…

  alchemisland

  2nd Nov 2023

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  alchemisland, alchemy, am writing, apocalypse, breakdown, chaos, crime, disorder, divination, dublin, dystopia, future, futuristic, gang war, gangland, imagery, imagination, ireland, neuralchemy, occult, oracular, poem, poems, poet, poetry, prophecy, total war, violence, words, writing

• Psyber

  Shock ignites the breaker board Awakened at midnight, his impatient nixsynthesis His fixtures enable him to realise the past Smudges along the windows, barely discernible He tends toward the room’s left-hand side Souls snared by bright blazes; his cyclopean camera’s aperture repeeling itself like a cyborg orange Gently tracing a blood stained lintel, his fingers…

  alchemisland

  2nd Nov 2023

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  2000 ad, alchemisland, alchemy, am writing, biohacks, creative writing, crime, criminology, cyberpunk, dystopia, evocation, feeling, future, futuristic, imagination, magic, murder, neuralchemy, occult, poem, poet, poetry, sense, sensuality, words, writing

• Vulptuous

  A fox furtive as Virgo exits its den sniffing the air Marzipan moon dented like a well used marble Voiding forecast, mystery mother cups her dew Twinless kinless night Each night is different to the last, darkling snowflake

  alchemisland

  2nd Nov 2023

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  alchemisland, alchemy, am writing, creative writing, earth, earthy, fox, foxes, green, lunar, mystery, nature, neuralchemy, night, occult, poem, poet, poetry, sorcery, terrestrial, virgo, vixen, vulpine, writing

• Wolf

  Illegible prophecy of uncanny accuracy  Tarot spread for bloody centuries Death, The Tower, The Knight of the Long KnIVes Liza’s lancers fear O’Neill’s men They refuse charges, citing fear of damnation No quotient of thrashings arrest their recalcitrance O’Neill’s whiskered kernes harbour wolf knowledge In Ossory, near Boris, cynocephalic regiments train arms Attaining ungodly athanasia…

  alchemisland

  2nd Nov 2023

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  alchemisland, alchemy, am writing, byron, creative writing, dog headed men, fenrir, fianna, ireland, irish wolf, liza and her ladies, lycanthropy, magic, magick, neuralchemy, occult, ossory, poem, poet, poetry, sorcery, stories, wolf, words, writing

• Chipvan

  Chips sogging a birth certificate His enchanting grease silver hands, the pontificate stands In his silver church, laminate certificate Denoting health board approval, that syndicate Shovelling fries into a gob Potables mumping on the hob Winding down done day’s job Counts out takings pockets bob Hobs flicks off with turned knob

  alchemisland

  2nd Nov 2023

  Filí my pockets

  chipper, chips, chips in newspaper