Tag: celtic
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Tara of the Kings
Smoking joints in the trenches surrounding Tara Barring Yank crowds and cawing crows no sounds Snakeless pre and post-Patrick, Catholic mythmaker Using shamrocks to illustrate Christian hat tricks Patron saint of patience waiting on eighths High samhraidh on Tara’s hills, Dowth-surrounded Bizzarre visions, ancestral visitations, cognitive invasions Solar placement, erection without precedent We see them,…
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Druidic Practices
Fear war’s coarse, hoarse horn sound Fear bay horses plough bolting, proud untamed Glaiving hoarfrost underhoof trine encrusted mirrorfront Roof of the world insipid, limpid, thatch of moving hearse. Lethe lymphing past, limping bordered pawns swapping last place for first Cursed with life A beckoning finger Lingering living scent after death Postprandial letter-writing Block’s untimely…
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Names
Screw-haired Druids in snow-hemmed vestments bestow Upon sireland’s wizen heirs wyrdful nomen Mawley scrawling bark of gallingly-sacred oak Gallant names oft, bathed in fire, steel of the throat. Before cognate, or hope to Sworn to solemn oaths Thou art oats Mighty oaks’ seeds Growing someday to shade tomb’s own. Others soft seer’s designations Taut-veering, ear-pleasing…
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The King Must Have Intercourse With A Horse
Mass to grove gods given in the deep motte, ashes impressed onto the brow and chest in blessing Twisting trees like matted hair on a woodwose breast, the sacred whore undressing The crown-conferring horse is led into a storm of golden confetti Her setting mimics that of a horse inviting, a cover of shear netting…