Tag: creative writing
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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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Falias of the Howling
Falias, first city Therein file Morfessa confessed ensorceller blessed storyteller Orates upon raindissolved limestone pulpit Impressing on minds malleable mystical lessons Concerning conscious abstention, rotations heavenly Laughing brevity’s uncapacious face, thin close-eyed like a slíbhín marten Levity at death Two hundred years ago he poem-throated first took breath And will another hundred hence. Theirs Lia…
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Finias of the Light
Clouds overhead, verily like whales Over head goes, bouncing off tails Pride of Finias, His lightforged blade Night bright beyond day, sawing cainnel Which illuminated Núada silver handled Argent wristed, sister-loving poet kings Ring-heavy finger songkept name long lingering.
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Goirias of the Violence
Goirias of living spear Gae Bolg Who hearing fear careers toward it Who runs ahead a phalanx, defiant Those whom it strikes die, spiked Splices poison-spiced, scorpions diced Delights downkneeing uprights, bending pridefuls Wrenching itself free a victim sans human aid, insatiable Sailing baleful naked breast next aimed for, mail-scorning Ranked highest of prided armoury’s…
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Gjenganger
Called forth from hell by shaman dwelling In high mountain dells Deep basement cells where dwell demons leathern, writ hating For blood in mancies aid them Causing on the Earth mayhem. Skullcollapse at opendooring Gjenganger disinterns himself Returns dirt-caked obstreperous, shambling fecklessly Rising fathoms full five, lyingfather fetid lecher. Funereal glads riven to rags by…
Alchemisland 