Tag: creative writing

• Fragments from the broken wheel

  Dublionysus, Mangan’s lurid epic penned in an absinthopium haze. The poet’s correspondence highlights a mysterious redheaded bedmate who tended his fleshly pangs during the tract’s 23 day construction period but her name, like Mangan’s manuscript, is lost.  Themes of national and personal confination abound in Mangan’s work and seem to reify thematically as assignments in…

  alchemisland

  21st Aug 2023

  alchemisland of Ireland, Filí my pockets, Short Stories, wyrd mythology

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• 90 most haunted angle 90

  Magic is like a mushroom  One head before thine eye  Scarce belies abundant bloom Subterranes, fearful sky One million unique crafts Cults of infinite variety Masterplan master’s laughs Engulfed flames the piety Piles of hewn noses  Cleft to spite faces  Red paint reed raised Moses Death these vile places  Erase thereof traces Multitudinous as the…

  alchemisland

  21st Aug 2023

  Filí my pockets

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• Black Rite

  Pharaoh had a brother, twin to the root Two of them there doted on Only one head fits the crown Two side by side indistinguishable  Undecipherable as an hieroglyph Equal beloved, taught noble ways and bred for rule Memphian atrocities a black rite A ceremony unbecoming Becoming Pharaoh Child made catamite, how to destroy angels…

  alchemisland

  21st Aug 2023

  Filí my pockets

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• It Smells Like Burning Templars In Here

  

  When I walk past it’s O face, salt bae How you feel about me: a salt bay April is Aries gearing up to Assault May. You’re salty saline  Temple at prod crumble like praline  Flood of God swerved it, salt sieve like baleen. Lighting up the sky it’s divine I’m like an invasion of aliens…

  alchemisland

  20th Aug 2023

  alchemisland of Ireland, Filí my pockets

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• Ens Primum Cognitum

  How can a man proclaim to love wisdom if he has not left the place of his birth for Athens and dwelled there in a house called Sofia, therein poring over the texts of ages and inheriting the crown of owls.  If the Internet were to disappear overnight, imagine the difficulty one would have convincing…

  alchemisland

  28th May 2023

  alchemisland of Ireland

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