Tag: corn king

• Ringfort, inner wall

  A place in stasis, where time is stalled Ancient mazes, and trunk-thick walls Even the drunkest thick applauds Offering plaudits to ancestors, whose ancient Gods Were of field and forest, bring hods to the old bog Bring the nippleless king, seeking the sog; all this and more I saw At the Hillfort in Rathgall The…

  alchemisland

  2nd Mar 2025

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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,…

  alchemisland

  24th Jul 2024

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• King’s Death

  Cat eye infection colour moon defiant, druid-pleasing, in a flambeau-strewn aethyr Rune-imbued blades made from rocks rained during sky raids erase, per their faith Old king’s graven name  His face sighting death barely fights Barely draws breath as he drains Crown which he tasted seem’d had only traced his brow a moment ago Unravelling regal…

  alchemisland

  27th Jun 2024

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• STONEHENGE SECRETS 

  Half light half shadow  Half snakes half ladders William Stukeley, mind you he was a mason He was amazed By the henges The ancients’ ways Kept him awake Days he spent on knees digging ditches Sweating between the cordons  A serpent mound, Atlantean in origin A porous rock they poured concrete in to stopper a…

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  2nd Jun 2024

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• The Bullaun

  Final week in July but inside the church a chill winters the air. Father Herlihy’s sermon always runs long on Sundays. Never less than four but sometimes five hours long. He would write all night of a Saturday, crafting righteous tracts of comical dimension, designed to forestall what it was that his congregation got up…

  alchemisland

  29th Aug 2023

  alchemisland of Ireland, Short Stories, wyrd mythology

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