Alchemisland

Two poets arguing metre

Verses mode Before them sud streaked mugs five times drained Englanders using Guinness kegs to make acephalic pints A big rasher wearing a monk’s habit Too much ludicrousness for this reasonable world, Will you or Will I shake spears at it Spurned to speech, some event; speak, speak Shaking his speech appears as murmur disappears…

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27th Oct 2023

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Next to the tourney

Next to the tourney Divers stalls: apothecaries, dentalists, coopers, alloymongers, errant blades, brewers, bards, flights of disfavoured heraldry in pitiful absolution, wanton and pius forms of man, woman and beast coagulating cohabitating in drink and filth Cogitators stay home, revels ten nights will be and sleepless In thresholds willing names would drip from contracts, hugging…

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27th Oct 2023

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Centaur

Fetid pile of horse and man Nessus undone, his exhibited contents A severed hand jutting out as if in welcome Proffering madness. Tantamount to one night All a man’s moons At life’s easing ceasing Momentary erotic undoing Solified eyes rare with solar oil Never more robed in glory.

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27th Oct 2023

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Taleteller

Gloaming, petrol fires at sunset wearing mitres of black smoke Strong bellied fire like a broccoli head bubbling saffron and fixing to see dawn Orpheus’ melodies careen in a sleeping gun’s ear Orders from HQ seek the Line’s source Navigating three thousand miles along a wire narrower than a gypsy’s kitchen Barely audible from the…

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27th Oct 2023

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Ice

Cessation of solar regency Reigns in age of ice and frost Relics of clement epochs, infrequent in long time Stark against snow bleached mattes Vexing for new primitives, scratching their bone caps in performative puzzlement

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27th Oct 2023

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