Tag: christmas

• Brumal Hymns

  We left a fire reduced to ashes Clumps of crumpled gift wrapping, snapped crackers Half-finished wine glasses, Santa’s gifts of biscuits and Guinness on the windowsill The good silver, the fine china, the piano’s white keys shining with recent touch The musk of gaiety, the carols seeming to linger beyond the singer Ah, the fates…

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  13th Jan 2025

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• Indecisive Patriarchs (Yesah Noah)

  Standing at the gates, a Lamassu Second rate your llama zoo Te llamo who? The ark the ark upon the waves, below the graveless dead unsaved and unsavoury Doubt is a slavery, that God didn’t make me, doubt daily rapes me The voice guiding this vessel perilous, this violent earth; the sons of Pelias Dripping,…

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  25th Nov 2023

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• Divine Dawn Vimy Ridge

  Marching with the rank and file Third trench Christmas, it’s all lasting a while. Curios whittled on frontlines and letters from home on a table in a pile Songs with similar airs performed in curious varied style Sitting on hard benches, itchy bunioned with asses piled Slapped knees and all at ease, dancing between the…

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  8th Nov 2023

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