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Homeless Poets
Homeless Ovid Abutting road Not leading to Rome Blameless of Homer Torpid storm, turgid night Serpentine tide’s undulate tattoo An exciseman in surplus resounding Pass’d without glance-casting our poet. Cursed to roam without the Garden By the sawfire sword angel-guarded Like a burdened beast ere upon its toes An azure-triskelled woad naked in a cleaving…
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Goodbye to all that
Robert Graves awayed, bloodlust sated Absconded to Deia, more to his mind Place of Satyrs, sylvan glaived maize Silenus maven muse pilgrim. He was a poet, a true poet Moon-throated, thralled to a muse From whose faultless hem Truth hewn can be eschewed Use not vexatious runes or puzzling riddles Which muddle befuddling the reading…
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Pagan Hellmass
Rabid Cthulhu fantasists raving Supplanted from blast’d heath To the rat heat of yon townships Upturned fruit crates, Jim Larkin hands Preaching hatred, lessons of Atlantis Mankind must learn again, vantage Heaven, whence men seem menace The world will be as a Venice. Men living still weeping Clinging to poles above water’s lip Sun eclipsed…
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Hurtful retrospect; life’s scant accounting
What is life but mayhem barely grasped Actions performed clasping hissing asps Wroth what, louder sound amongst sounds Storm dormant little envies that raging now What the championship sash but wraps to cloth cerement on your death Earthen firmament cloven doth oven heat’d eat stink with slight ceremony When the presiding priest is seen frightened,…
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