Tag: antiquity
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Desecrating Hector’s corpse
Bareback riding the mightiest piebald Once owned by Scythian tribes Scared inside, the rebel tribes Send him out. The devil is arrived, I am come to claim my prize. Beat Hector in a one on one trial Now I’m doing circuits of his city His severed head divested now of princely circlet His dragged and…
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Homeward Trojan
Years of siege, stalemate and tedious pause Leached away what raw feeling, what zeal, Dreamy Queen Helen’s theft ordained. Feral as spurned Hera, He emerges, so-called Hero From a rent tent wall, wine-rank, sword drawn Swearing he’ll kill them all, blaspheming both Greek and Trojan Gods. Terrifying because he is fearless Hearing the seeress speak…
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Brevity
Always shit to stir up Send violent wishes skyward Then usher my eyeless destrier away from the spiteful saltbite tide No stirrups, breast Burren bare and hairless still The ephebe who kills, the beech without leaves, In hopes that his violent, hope-raping deeds Will see his legacy exceed The briefness of his zeal’s chiefdom.
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In Bully’s Acre, still offerings of olives are left at the feet of the broken statues from Ancient Greece
The statues, busts, and freizes Zeus, Rhea and Athena Hidden like maidens behind screens changing, never again to take place At table’s head Disfavoured and yellowing now Stripped of their awesome power Removed then fashioned for exchange the gold that was their endowment Looking down upon us, then as now, denizens of menacing clouds Loud,…
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Elgin’s Ending
People telling end up in Hell along with fell Lord Elgin Like a brocken spectre on Helvellyn, long shadows his crime cast Broken or whole, without respect Taken as toll, to a private collection To that most predatory end of vile self election. At life’s ending, Elgin journeyed in a southerly direction. In lime and mortar…
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