Tag: ancient history

• Ringfort, inner wall

  A place in stasis, where time is stalled Ancient mazes, and trunk-thick walls Even the drunkest thick applauds Offering plaudits to ancestors, whose ancient Gods Were of field and forest, bring hods to the old bog Bring the nippleless king, seeking the sog; all this and more I saw At the Hillfort in Rathgall The…

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  2nd Mar 2025

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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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• Propaganda Prior to Actium

  Octavian the reverenced, not yet August Hush descends when he ascends the eagle pulpit, eagle blood pumping Dilating pupils highlighting pool blue eyes, perfumes lies: “Octavia sports roots Roman as Remus Her blood follows regal routes teeming with Romulean energy Her ancestors all conquerors whom fettered Gauls with palsy-blue tattoo coverings were brought to grovel…

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  27th Jun 2024

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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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  27th Jun 2024

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• Smashed at Actium

  Gold much in Egypt Gods older than the foam which drank Atlantis Arch fantasist whose phantom hand called up every flower He toward whom all followers tend eventually Ear lender whose housing lobes empathic eternal paternal tenderness At disposal every power, every rotad hour known to he Oldest When ceaseless cleansing rains started, the heart…

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  27th Jun 2024

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