Tag: battle

• The fearless cannot flee

  The fearless cannot flee, even as those holding walls fall to scree They see no danger, death seems not only distant but an impossibility They ride out from the safety of the inner keep to the overtaken streets Blades in hand, shaken aloft, you will never take us alive, they adopt Bear fury, conjuring from…

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  26th Aug 2024

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• Violence of cavalry charge

  Come to drain the boils of rancid cancer The needle wielding horsemen handsome Lancers on panting horses Coming down a painted mountain Like a flood coming to drown them On the backs of sweating four legged panzers Black breathy sweating panthers, lathered flanks like tough leather Sinewy legs, much rider and ridden faced together One…

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• And out come the sharks

  Planks come loose from the trireme’s flank Like a flooded arena on the Emperor’s birth night Flaming men jump over the side and into the sea Bodies which sank the same regardless of rank Are set upon by shank-jawed blood magnets Magnates of the brine planet, baleful magistrates Whose every gavel check is a pronouncement…

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  13th Aug 2024

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• Barbarian beastmode

  Dacians north of the Danube Art deserving, decorating Constantine’s Arch Marble marvels Patience of a manacle In the dense jungle, hearing Pan’s pipes Anarchy’s flageolet anthem of flagness nation Daos, the Phrygian wolf God Came from sun-blessed Persepolis West toward endurance and further hardiness Freezing frigid Fangorns fringes frostfingered, only madmen linger long Scornful Romans…

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  21st Jul 2024

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• What the nobles did during battle

  Lesser lords haunting hillrounds, by ruins of ancient tin mines Taking soundings before they ride At a French upbraiding and routing, own cowardice defying Cry havoc houndsflee, uprising in saddles with newfound spines A councillor allowed will always a councillor be I renounce all council, none else concocts my cockatrician dreams.

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  13th Jul 2024

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