Tag: ancient greece

• Plundering a Masterpiece

  Numerologists praising lucky elevens and sevens Numbing numbers puzzling and unbecoming, potent despite Like witch-stirred potions brewed on rare moon nights, enabling flight Impossible by rights yet I thereby gliding despite Without spite, purely to satisfy and blight with blithe smiles One slight, short in height, a self nothing denied since it brushed motherthighs An…

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  19th Feb 2025

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• Cursing the Oppressors 

  Apollo and python  A sporting lord And wielded change and lightning chains Who enjoyed cavorting with human sorts  Despite his wife’s jealous, green-tinged eyes blazing Queenly Athena, shed no fierce tears at your frieze’s fleecing Turn your molten heart freezing and curse the disruptor’s penis Cast shadows where the shoulder-stroking light of Venus lends warm feeling…

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• Useless defences 

  My text history dirtier than Marquis de Sade’s escapades She learned lessons from history about siegecraft She’s escalading my cascading Jericho walls Knowledge from the world of the ancients She’s at the frontline, waiting patient I’m inspecting the granaries, looking gravefaced Once her wild ephebes scale my walls using their cruel ladders My soldiers weak…

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  3rd Aug 2024

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• Alcmaeonidae

  Last of the noble Alcmaeonidae Vestments priceless purple dye Dying heirless and airless beneath the careless sky.

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  28th Jul 2024

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• King of pugilists at prayer

  Bait a jab, dip Clasp hands behind hips, lift From Keramoti to Thassos, boxers by dayglow go to heroic groves Clove-scented, seated on cloven stone cloven-footed one’s throne Overgrown with old foliage, foliate head emerging Flaxen hair a chervil mound, summoned by Amergin He most unservile, rilled nubile verdant Dante rootcheeked Atlantean Lord of leafed…

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  28th Jul 2024

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