Tag: antiquity
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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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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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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…
