Tag: antiquity

• 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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• Winterfangs at the Hillfort

  In his pagan palace of palisades and witches, an Rí Shivers no less than the peons working his ditches thanklessly Season when Mercury dips, when blue-lipped men wear an extra stitch Winter begins decorating, forceful Refusing to store your old clutter and decor in boxes marked stuff Pulling wires out of fuse boxes, leaving live…

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  19th Feb 2025

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• 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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• Spoiling the mound

  Staring out the open casement The nearby heath hides a hidden cache Ancient loot is stored away, encased by the ground’s elevation The groundskeeper is made to ready his spades I take a conveyance to the site I believe to be a grave Brave despite nascent night, by a brazier’s sawing light The men did…

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• Apes climbing pillars in Solomon’s Temple

  A shadow which stands commanding the length of the land’s lay Apes urgently climbing lapis-alived pillars lined with Ophirian diamonds Conveying Solomon’s temple roof to heaven’s lathe, there are displayed Ophidian icons remnant of iron age rites, scions of wisdom owl’s allowance Prions aflame with religious devotions, candle revealed in tallow unallowable icons Zircon-eyed dragonians…

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