Tag: ancient rome

• March of Hannibal unplanned

  I am indomitable unstoppable Rome-abhorring Captain Hannibal Children taken, wrenched from mothers’ grasps the land’s span Fed to fearsome hilltop tophets, prophets engage, nay enrage Deities of constraint and malfeasance, grant passage my grand animals Across glacial Alpen passages, that my elpends inexpendable Can depend through that passing and be penned after Rome’s taking Men…

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• Barbarian beastmode

  Dacians north of the Danube Art deserving, decorating Constantine’s Arch Marble marvels Patience of a manacle In the dense jungle, hearing Pan’s pipes Anarchy’s flageolet anthem of flagness nation Daos, the Phrygian wolf God Came from sun-blessed Persepolis West toward endurance and further hardiness Freezing frigid Fangorns fringes frostfingered, only madmen linger long Scornful Romans…

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• Raiding in blue

  Caked, tugged at, sucked back, slowgoing, wading Lost Tommies shelldefeaned leadpregnant Advancing slowly whilst grenaded Man insane to go against machines Without officer’s baton and ironed strides. Imagining ranks of young Frenchmen Artists and teachers, future lynchpins Of society and pillars, perhaps, some Sons prodigal, the rum-dumbed But none death deserving None so numb to…

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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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• CAESAR’S BOAT TRIP

  Cameral mind backing through time As into fishing lanes lines casting Smiling glory guides me Caesar of seizures, who leisures in a time of ide-seeing, completes the tides By sawing fires warming hands on seething seas, glancing Alp leeward Votives bleeding for Athena leaving mare nostrum Storm-fought ships’ unlevel floors Hands out before him like…

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