Tag: bard
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Nights Before Actium
Before Actium in Egypt Fifteen years purgatory for Marc Antony, among bird-headed statuary Drinking whilst playing kingly chance games, discipline eroding steadily Telling his men they must continue trusting him unto triumph “Jupiter will smite their ships, Set having sewn confusion among them We will feed them to the Nile, Sobek thence casts judgement Fear…
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Planning Invasions
I am the Tarot fool I am King Lear’s drooling madness I am Hamlet’s father’s absence and his son’s inaction I am the waifish wife collapsing I am the elapsing ways of routed factions, the last Gael taking martial action I will march on Actium on my own orders, on horseback I will enact mystical…
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Barfight Bardfight
In a dingy bar A Spaniard plays guitar Songs a scorpion would enjoy Light here is bad Windows barred No thoughts, just noise One more frosty, no choice. In the loud crowd a mind among them, mind mine the mindingplace of my me, quiet as Clonmacnoise Before brinebopping Viking boys quintupled their need for graves…
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Smoking With Her
Got so much blip we don’t pick up a dropped spliff Bill another piff, clean the screen like bottled Jiff Soon can’t hear the screen with the volume of the hiss Amount of spliffs it takes the piss Routine busted racecar it’s the pits Palindromes won’t save me Pallbearers to grave me Give it all…
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War Caint
Swan when I wear it, sworn when I swear it Pops when I don it, props when I Don it Head currently holeless like faulty donut Do not approach or blood splat yoghurt You’ll get reproached, sent home soaked Tell your blokes I’ll wet their coats Send redcoats flying back to boats But I’ve burnt…
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Dublin Days
Down Winetavern street beside what should be wood Quay The people’s will defied, the land reused the finds destroyed What should have been Ireland’s golden mile, twice what York is Is now the grim set of civic offices near to Cork Street Between the mummified cat and rat and the needle exchange Where you can…
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Full Moon
Awede wint moon full pearls Aweightte wint sun comenopp oerhyl, Lowing boathorns shook the chest Labourers piling cargo boxes bound for far-off Oxgangs, Africa and Asia. Pasty obese man’s arm coloured light Rebounds with ripples from moon to sea. Rare expletives abounding at the loading dock, Viscous hours yet pent until a crowing cock, Fit…
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Next to the tourney
Next to the tourney Divers stalls: apothecaries, dentalists, coopers, alloymongers, errant blades, brewers, bards, flights of disfavoured heraldry in pitiful absolution, wanton and pius forms of man, woman and beast coagulating cohabitating in drink and filth Cogitators stay home, revels ten nights will be and sleepless In thresholds willing names would drip from contracts, hugging…
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Flower and a frogGreen things that want water.Power of the dogUnseen, brings the star daughter.When one realizes their spirit they lift the veil of IsisMother of Heaven and Wife of Osiris,From mortal to God, from Hod to Yesod.
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