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Hymns to Lofty Enlil
Enlil, you drew together impossible chords Knots hitherto undreamt, progenitor of dreams Tarsus upon which Enlil sets his armies That nations comrade between his seas Pleases, unleashed his leashed creation Least of flesh and most of mind, mind’s golden mean Lasting not long the leaves of language, Gilgamesh his lands flees Dozen deeds done, his…
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The sun rising as it has not in some time
Sunrise glorious, more than recent times Sunrise’s old but recently seen beauty, tenfold Even a day’s break steals all gold’s glimmering Fools old and young ascribing to arts limn you As Apollo limb you that you might walk far afield C thy coastal passage sprouting thyrsus awield Vaster than recalled Tutelary star. Sunrise as has…
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Descriptions of Night (completely out of ideas but classics never get old)
Day’s demise Relapsing again Night overpowering Bearing down Teacher’s pet Hecate’s scrying orb Tar-jammed vein colour of imminent night Censer-fog as wreathed Aaron’s Tanakhi Bats or worse ascend to their silhouettes Moon’s width wingspan arrival Annunaki Illuminating aerial sallying their numbers countless at tallying eerie ring around the haunted moon Haunted oceans gap haunted peaks,…
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Lorebrandisher
Every blade two sides the stoved hoards cleft by my Jove sword Smashed at Djahy the sea peoples, horned helms wave-stolen Red foam the rivers, delighting Sobek’s kin, devouring the deads’ skin Jah he spoke through Selassi imperial preference divine communion Thessaly Where Princes go for quests, ram-obsessed uncles hell bent on dominion, crown kept…
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Scrying Surface Beheld at Length
O, sick muse! How like plans made far advanced your zeal for me wilts like winter plants By whatever wit your arm apple fastened You have slipped my noose Ring red raw the rope’s scarring passion Abusing gifts like a voucher scam, now light must ration Greedily shed my finite light, last of oil burning…
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