Tag: combat

• King of pugilists at prayer

  Bait a jab, dip Clasp hands behind hips, lift From Keramoti to Thassos, boxers by dayglow go to heroic groves Clove-scented, seated on cloven stone cloven-footed one’s throne Overgrown with old foliage, foliate head emerging Flaxen hair a chervil mound, summoned by Amergin He most unservile, rilled nubile verdant Dante rootcheeked Atlantean Lord of leafed…

  alchemisland

  28th Jul 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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• Inner City Oldtime

  Our own tongue throat stranger And failing to nourish will or may perish We pause, wishing to answer betters in Irish Cannot know a lost language Vanishes, we answer in English Less than swill of which our Liffey consists. What is Irishness What is native wit? Slack jaws guffawing Slenting houses built from haunted bricks…

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  21st Jul 2024

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• Lover’s Declaration III

  Which Valhallite for more life would not stake All hours unlife’s estatial halls wineful gloried  Who chooses stained glass immortality Over corn’s faintest Elysian brush Hasting wind making baled hay hiss Sand reforming in awe-ordered fist. Dead and so forever Flown through the arches Dark dress, mourners marching Blessed now, regardless Whether ripe-hearted or charmless.…

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  11th Jul 2024

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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…

  alchemisland

  27th Oct 2023

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