Tag: alchemisland

• In the solar

  Mugging the sun at knifepoint. Up close, in the pocket with Apollo, Until my cooked eyes run like liquid birds from cloven eggs. Black as old potbottoms, no more than shell holes, Issuing listless smoke in storm-redolent spirals.

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  27th Apr 2026

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  alchemisland, apollo, art, creative writing, poem, poet, poetry, solar, solar poetry, sun god, sun worship, the sun, writing

• An examination of force

  Long gone the days  Of legions unafraid  Chasing Mithridates  From the city walls  To the shores of Euphrates. The scored shield of the gloried legion, Now a sprouting boundless must have edges found for it. The pitiless strength must be fitted With satin gloves more fitting For making love poetry Than subduing rebel tribes. This…

  alchemisland

  27th Apr 2026

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  alchemisland, art, creative writing, force, poem, poet, poetry, rome, the roman empire, violence, writing

• Dragonslaying 101

  Caped crusader, to slay a dragon you must feint using your wraith blade Black magic attacks taxing the faith of Saint Patrick, tragic fates await. No traffic so the sad sight in the rearview fades away the further we travel Horse innards unravelled and bashed flat with a crooked judge’s gavel Menstrual blood and breastmilk…

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  27th Apr 2026

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  alchemisland, art, creative writing, poem, poet, poetry, writing

• The hateful sun’s tongueblistering hymns

  To taste the SunSon, I sucked vinegar and blood from the sponge A cackling Roman forced the wincing Christ to suck for succour. Older than the bog’s butter the names I must mutter Dark splutters which muster summonable others. When She sings, however shrilly, leathery wings begin to flutter In some divorced and gushing void…

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  27th Apr 2026

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  alchemisland, art, bitterness, creative writing, fiction, heat, horror, literature, occult, poem, poet, poetry, solar, summer, sun worship, the sun, truth, writing

• Yellowism

  For every Roman soldier dead Sow daffodil bulbs in his stead In memory, the century flower Endowed with egg or butter’s burnished splendour.

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  27th Apr 2026

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  alchemisland, ancient rome, creative writing, daffodils, flowers, poem, poetry, rome, yellow