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Barbarians Walls Fucked
Rome’s antient walls with faces emblazoned Names considered graffiti now famed signatures Progression of ages, processing gold to lead Ardent flames o’ersaw Empire’s best Symbols of better, nobler days Ladies myriad: wives, wardens, soldiers, goddesses, dryads All kinds world to fashion and fill: Wrenched breast-succour’d babes, thence to smother Overmothering Emperors into neurotic degeneracy. Poisoned…
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Sharks II
Blur, static, frantic action Antony’s legs flapping after Actium Stalking shark phantoms wearing Octavian’s smile Sea clown, how cowish seen below yet given a torturer’s soul. Mired, wading happily in Verne dreams Through the aspic of the sea Staring upward, sharks moving ceaselessly Untiring conveyor of rage and teeth From this angle leant almost comic…
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Gaelic chieftains called to war
Praying away the sun Wearing no plate Neither glistening nor glimmering Shriving before all-knowing Dagda Lorefather seated at Síd in Broga. Highest casement descried Ancient hyperbole starchasing Charting firmaments blaze-gazed Bending royal Boyne thereby parades Men from lost continents Atlantean fashion and knowledge Heart center in our missing province High kings crowned Stone screaming sent…
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Some brutal nation
Some brutal nation subjugating neighbours Stripping naked, upbraiding Finally raping and hanging captors Not only way but their way Inherited from violent forebears Inherited bearing becomes weighted burden Ass asked to bear until death, tare of legacy Horseback archers rare skills surpassing Indeed, anpiels in blazing! By amazing speed melding It seem’d, with wielded weapons,…
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Leaving society for love
Take me to manless leys whose lengths no other paced No other sandal’s tattoo grace’d Make my love as an explorer’s ship’s prow, proud and seeing out Drinking unknown waves in ages ignorant to longitude. No matter where I sail, boreas withershins me Arriving to rare Ophir Where rivers of clear, unsettling orpiment roar forth…
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