Tag: alchemy
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Call to arms
In my quaint keep, in his keeping; Exhort to action labour sore limbs My cat limns quietly by my ankle Limbs spread at Vitruvian angles Disobey the sanctions of the day Gainsay minor precepts, stay up late No place kept in Hell for late sleepers.
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Dirty secret
Nowadays admitting you’re a poet’s like Telling someone you were IRA back in the day A dirty secret whose telling betrays altogether too much of the true shape, Or that you had a teenage girlfriend back, quote, when the going was good, People look at you strangely, as well they should; The poet like bowyer…
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Shards of sharp wonderglass
Evening sky’s pied tricolour like An Irish flag hiked up for war Moonrise illumes the pike-wielding ranks, who roar. Osiris eyelid green where it seems The sky could be reached A chartreuse hand sharp throughout with thorns, nest-addled Resting as a saddle does on one’s best horse Palms gorse-pricked, hands settling upon shoulderous mountainrounds. Like…
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Lemon soul
Chasing spirits Soul Reaver Fame, fortune sole reason Busy bee, eager beaver I’ll dead beef, not teasing Dead, not leaves, falling season.
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HEALING AFTER A BEATING
Stopped the coffee to stop the cough Body healing after so many years brought to heel By smoke after smoke, and huffing weed Bow to none I never kneel Even in the room below the steeple Nuns creepy and priests creeping Into the primary school peeping Parent teacher evening Better hide the pedos Can my…
Alchemisland 