Tag: antiquities

• 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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  18th Feb 2025

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• Visiting a dolmen 

  Day is muggy, has us both sulky Pasty Irishers not made for sun Kissing your poisoned lips at the megalith Enormous light-eclipsing capstone Sits strangely angled, how was it lifted into place in ancient day I imagine cow-tramped trails, movable log ramps along which longstones travelled Burnt offerings and the bones of chieftains interned within…

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  4th Sep 2024

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• Sending back cursed neolithic axeheads

  Wrapped in soft cushion Plush to touch Push the center Doesn’t touch  The goods Safe for custom Safety cushion. Packing in ill-gotten axeheads Reckoned millennia old They’d be only for me They’re out instead I have sent them ye, safekeep Sweep slate Sweet sleep Slate guilt Let my head peace! On the envelope in block…

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  17th Jul 2024

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• Looting

  History circuitous, repetitious For the Irish, rarely surreptitious As rights rise like tides of changing ages Venice’s cancer’s final stage From sacred hollows mystical weapons are pried Durandal pulled from stone and stolen, like Scone’s stone How long until Thule and Horbiger’s icebox are taught in schools? Of the lance of Longinus, spearing Eden’s seed…

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  8th Jul 2024

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• GHOST SHIP, HOLD FULL OF CURSED GOLD

  Below deck hidden holds, bars  Tolls bone-exacted extracted by knee-impacting steps slick with stale sea wetness Steep stairs scored with splinters, the bold who defy scrapes find themselves escaping danger Snug as a manger, stunning lack of arrangement, amazement of piles all sizes All the stock ever seized by pirate or exciseman, sky-high Witness to…

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  30th Jun 2024

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