Tag: alexander the great
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Mars in Gemini
Mars in Gemini I do not march out No rogue samurai Moving carefully, slowly. I prise apart Who calls faint of heart Alexander, who marched The world known’s breadth And found it insufficient.
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Ancient Eastern War
Missileridden banners looking mothbitten, fluttering wind influenced In like rhythm pilgrim army carves a line Lion pelts clasped at breast by gold-threaded brooches Veterans with hangedman wisdom hang on the rhythm of a lissome Emperor’s words His pearl-footed sandals move aside sand into piles of gold as vault his banks He offers no thanks for…
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The Great
Death’s invisible wand doles out deaths The unscared are plainly liars, the leading lads are overtired The eyeful jets swoop over fires, my grenades will pacify us Ties that bind us severed by frustrated Alexander, knot satisfied with his lot Zeus-Thoth, longest lot drawer, west and east drawn closer His foot cloven, his mother a…