Tag: ancient world
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Idols long for their own sundering
Assisted suicide, wind-aided Once elevated to lofty status, hooded Gods goat-gaited live as vagrants, Knowing where the Aegis of Athena’s raiment is located. All things have a sense of when their time ends Entropy is the world’s utmost tendency. Pictures will long to flee frames Left to rot weep as one whose heart a thrice-gartered…
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Some brutal nation
Some brutal nation subjugating neighbours Stripping naked, upbraiding Finally raping and hanging captors Not only way but their way Inherited from violent forebears Inherited bearing becomes weighted burden Ass asked to bear until death, tare of legacy Horseback archers rare skills surpassing Indeed, anpiels in blazing! By amazing speed melding It seem’d, with wielded weapons,…
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Names
Screw-haired Druids in snow-hemmed vestments bestow Upon sireland’s wizen heirs wyrdful nomen Mawley scrawling bark of gallingly-sacred oak Gallant names oft, bathed in fire, steel of the throat. Before cognate, or hope to Sworn to solemn oaths Thou art oats Mighty oaks’ seeds Growing someday to shade tomb’s own. Others soft seer’s designations Taut-veering, ear-pleasing…
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Falias of the Howling
Falias, first city Therein file Morfessa confessed ensorceller blessed storyteller Orates upon raindissolved limestone pulpit Impressing on minds malleable mystical lessons Concerning conscious abstention, rotations heavenly Laughing brevity’s uncapacious face, thin close-eyed like a slíbhín marten Levity at death Two hundred years ago he poem-throated first took breath And will another hundred hence. Theirs Lia…
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Finias of the Light
Clouds overhead, verily like whales Over head goes, bouncing off tails Pride of Finias, His lightforged blade Night bright beyond day, sawing cainnel Which illuminated Núada silver handled Argent wristed, sister-loving poet kings Ring-heavy finger songkept name long lingering.
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