Tag: ancient egypt
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Temple Ager
Bald prelates spoke of old prodigies, lost knowledges Of having prodded nubiler moons in forgotten yestermorrows Using Godsborrowed arms at least as long as the Nile is presumed; New to them are we, and old to them are the revering places, Where their fearful lop-eared Gods’ animal faces are said to appear To a faithless…
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Dost thou not know me, Osiris?
Scant relief Burning through weed and weedy Sin Eaters Who enter eager but depart defeated misdemeanour-beleaguered, Having trekked the requisite leagues to my evil peak, Where voice stealing winds dream of flutes And the many uses to which they should turn tools Such as the hands gifted to, grafted onto, human fools. Liver bin fit…
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Binding the duat
Money in a tight band This isle’s Tai Pan Fighting the dual. The new perhaps? To fashion a glorious wishmaker we must take your hand A falchion slash any valorous lad worth his dash should stand. The last palace’s muted collapse in a hazardous, sneering badland, Not an ear around to hear the ground finally…
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Halls of Amenti
Fate-revealing guts loosed from pink cases, one swift gladius cut. Dream drawn to Amenti’s starlit halls, past lives recalled Birds cawing in awesome chorus Stall before soaring, dawnspawn above thornpaw God-haunted flatlands Following saltdrawn ley lines to a grand tomb Beneath where the Sphinxlion’s lazy left paw looms.
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The left breast of a true seer can by her will alone produce a fine silk or a golden milk which when consumed promotes extranormal vision
Soot-blacked priesteyes king sighting queue to ply her mind Priestess of mighty Isis glittering in cuntish fishbelly diamonds Robes white as an holy ibis, neck jewelheavy, pieces intricate priceless Enacting vile Nilotic rites so that the dynasty survives Blood quotients taken twice, no one cares if a slave dies Every step adhered, everything done right…