Tag: alchemy

• A True and Serious Narration

  alchemisland

  8th Nov 2023

  alchemisland of Ireland, wyrd mythology

  alchemisland, alchemy, bog, bog time machine, daemonic, imagination, neuralchemy, samples, seamus heaney, warp, wobble, wyrd

• Fifteen

  Goading someone into hitting a friend, ten from zero So I can intercede myself, look a hard man and hero All five foot of me, a limp wrist for whisking and whiskey and little more A wrist so skinny that a shackle slides off, workhouse build and dangerously bored Done screaming that mam’s a whore,…

  alchemisland

  8th Nov 2023

  Filí my pockets

  alchemisland, alchemy, am writing, fifteen, neuralchemy, poem, poet, poetry, writing, youth

• Divine Dawn Vimy Ridge

  Marching with the rank and file Third trench Christmas, it’s all lasting a while. Curios whittled on frontlines and letters from home on a table in a pile Songs with similar airs performed in curious varied style Sitting on hard benches, itchy bunioned with asses piled Slapped knees and all at ease, dancing between the…

  alchemisland

  8th Nov 2023

  alchemisland of Ireland, Filí my pockets

  alchemisland, alchemy, christmas, creative writing, death, great war, neuralchemy, poem, poet, poetry, rhyming, saki, sniper, trenches, vimy, war poetry, war poets, words, writing

• Windowledge

  When I was young and hated life I brandished pain, the oldest knife Recalcitrance’s balled fists crying out in need Cold-blooded offspring of a certain serpent’s seed I recall standing on a ledge, up three floors Part performance, and this really was, seek no metaphors Like a man who is allergic to doors Out on…

  alchemisland

  8th Nov 2023

  Filí my pockets

  alchemisland, alchemy, am writing, bardcraft, creative writing, evocations, heights, knowledge, maturity, memories, neuralchemy, occult, poem, poet, poetry, rhyming, spilled ink, story, storytelling, vertigo, window, words, writing

• James Joyce Vampire Direction

  Thanatological inclinations push me from my bed Sanguine susurrations, your blood sings to my head My patience like thinning mercury, my tightening grip Orgiastic flashes of wounds and dripping whips When I’m done his blood gets drained Leave bleak crime scenes men get insaned His claws brandished but his body maimed Bellied blood swims, his…

  alchemisland

  7th Nov 2023

  alchemisland of Ireland, Filí my pockets

  alchemisland, alchemy, creative writing, imagination, ireland, james joyce, joyce, mouth from the south, poem, poet, poetry, ulysses, vampire, writers, writing