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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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Wine of Life
Though to one scorned, who thought himself close to first Grapes suchlike are as like to rouse yet greater thirst But vintages rare in delight, steeply priced alight my cellars tonight To you, reader, to here, my manse, I most cordially do you invite What fine bouquet arrayed, realm over which thee reign At your…
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Dark Night of the
Night atramentous Tremendous dispelling Light falling like salient shelling Turned Earth. Tail Fires bright Lightworker the Night’s Caesar Seizure of midnight assets diamonds countless faceted Slent its trajectory Blent day to night, strange leopard light New lantern new record heats, new ores fountain Earth itself a saltern and what’s left at end alchemically altered A…
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Jibes
Lambent, to win by wits keen Words measured and massed Of cruder sentiments shorn Long pruning, its trained growing Measured not by inch but metre Not unlike a poem read by a ruler Or a compass holder, its legspan Finds the hidden meaning Despite ignoring the light-pouring outpouring, beaming Like a pearl’s underside only God…
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