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HAUNTED NIGHT WARD
In almhouses eleemosynary citizens Rome’s crooked coughing denizens Requiring medicines and proclamations against sin’s promulgation Herded beyond the gates lined with faces faithful Caseful of philtres slick with glaucous admix Thick mixture fixture in fixing, herbs melted. On sweet-smelling ward walls images of eversmiling Paracelsus, reborn in Blake Patients intaking mind-erasing potions in large quotient,…
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Druidic Practices
Fear war’s coarse, hoarse horn sound Fear bay horses plough bolting, proud untamed Glaiving hoarfrost underhoof trine encrusted mirrorfront Roof of the world insipid, limpid, thatch of moving hearse. Lethe lymphing past, limping bordered pawns swapping last place for first Cursed with life A beckoning finger Lingering living scent after death Postprandial letter-writing Block’s untimely…
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Names
Screw-haired Druids in snow-hemmed vestments bestow Upon sireland’s wizen heirs wyrdful nomen Mawley scrawling bark of gallingly-sacred oak Gallant names oft, bathed in fire, steel of the throat. Before cognate, or hope to Sworn to solemn oaths Thou art oats Mighty oaks’ seeds Growing someday to shade tomb’s own. Others soft seer’s designations Taut-veering, ear-pleasing…
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Epithet
Long enduring, sacker of cities All sufferings, none of pities Fleet witted, nimble, suffering enmity Heavenborn stalwart, great hearted raider Graceful face warn but wartless Warlike in the Cyclops’ fortress Wearing moist clinging lambskins, cave cloying Stormcloud flies in residence Godkinned bronzeskinned, wit plain evident Resource inexhaustible, fixed fast fortress Man of many twists and…
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Falias of the Howling
Falias, first city Therein file Morfessa confessed ensorceller blessed storyteller Orates upon raindissolved limestone pulpit Impressing on minds malleable mystical lessons Concerning conscious abstention, rotations heavenly Laughing brevity’s uncapacious face, thin close-eyed like a slíbhín marten Levity at death Two hundred years ago he poem-throated first took breath And will another hundred hence. Theirs Lia…
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