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Descendants
In a faraway land of palm a familiar drama hatching Abraham and sister-wife Sarah, later matriarch, made Isaac Thy descendants keeping my tenets Protecting my covenants shall be ascendant Dependent on none, let live in sunful plenty Far from the sinful bowl, empty Thou and thine art protected Shielded by favour and unseen angels Who…
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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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