Tag: ancient egypt

• Terrifying astral alignments

  Finally every star in alignment Earning a living from writing is primary I must do myself this kindness I am close to blindness with misery I see before me a world blanched and piteous With pity for me, I see only smog scree and bleached Edens I am half-eaten, moths flee when the jacket is…

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• Desertion Before Actium 

  Elven lemon sky Ionian Sea Roman killing Roman, Juno’s griefful heaving stirred seas Flux disease and desertion distilled Antony’s ranks to truest champions Still they reckoned a reckonable force  Skipper swearing fingers to his lips whffffphhhs signalling swift ship’s arrival  Assuring no rival lyingly flies friendly flags, wolf in sheepen rag Long boathook like snake-choking…

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• Nights Before Actium

  Before Actium in Egypt Fifteen years purgatory for Marc Antony, among bird-headed statuary Drinking whilst playing kingly chance games, discipline eroding steadily  Telling his men they must continue trusting him unto triumph “Jupiter will smite their ships, Set having sewn confusion among them We will feed them to the Nile, Sobek thence casts judgement Fear…

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• What the Black Rite Entails

  Rocks fisted into the sun at the universe’s fizzing out Planets spinning out of orbit like lubed snooker balls Great avian shrines cloistered in the noisome House of Amenti West of Kemet the domain of Tjemehu, later Libya Funeral shroud hued soils floo the black land of the Pharaohs Black rites enacted in the hidden…

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• Egypt Then

  To furthest shores Irish monks trawling for souls set course Thirstier by far for knowledge and lore than word of the lord Fascinated by the law of that older world, its Atlantean splendour Its many mechanical idols and ceaseless batteries flattered the thinkers of that mound-building nation who thought Earth flat Cats given choicest cuts…

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