Tag: alchemisland
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Broken gargoyles
The unholy home of Lot levelled Its demoned temples malevolent scree. Coughs ebon My lungs. My drummond leaksprung ekes to ebbing Weeks left at best Each breath extension.
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Knights and the weight of friendship
Sleet cold smile Discerned behind His ornate helm of iron Narrowly-visored frontispiece Bearing a rook’s beak in crooked steel A rounded pate inlaid with fascinating lines Mythical scenes from canons yet-unseen. He Whose comet is not yet come around Does not abound in comrades.
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Armoured protector
Lapis lazuli his catch-your-eye devices. Imagine man plated Coloured like a sedated Yet defensively animated Camouflager. My beak weakens, steamless Beaten by the steel of her teak. The moment that she speaks At once every hue flashes peep show fashion the filled seats. From butter to blood to blackness; unfocused, impressionist crocuses; Yellow, purple, red,…
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Death of a captain
You hardly kiss me I am Nelson dying, knowing triumph is at hand Guided to the mystery, surrounded by gallants Saying Kiss me, Hardy. Give your hand as ballast. Flimsy the sand hemming in the sea from the land I cannot see the seaside without the brand of Hemingway’s heavy hand. I felt unforced a…
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Take dictation
This reading thirst, this needy curse, I have overworked Until the burgeoning calendar’s golden bursts Were dark as the undetermined, hearse hued, before my hooded eyes Which light refuse. The sound of static is the pleased cat hiss of life’s lighted fuse As its chewing flame eats a tunnel through tallow unto charcoal. A dimmed…
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