Tag: creative writing
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Titterers
Laugh at me I’ll halt the steed Gleaming steel at hip’ll steam Drinking dramfuls from the lake of dreams Draughts of creamy hippocrene Guinnessene, thirst of long-duned Essene I am Homer’s blameless heroes I watch a screen, scribbling keen notes A friend’s obscene Opium dreams As if a neural portal borne of and in mind…
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Straightener with James Joyce
He gave me no choice I’m having a straightener with James Joyce He wrote Ulysses but he’s useless in the ring Bad knees, a breeze has him dancing reels Ineluctable modality of the visible is tested when I get physical, shots I drilled send him spilling over a table Half the man Leopold Bloom is,…
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Cancelled Presser
Under pressure executives Trying to measure and execute Around these big personalities A comedy of errors, tank a cancel fee Conor Mcgregor presser cancelled Dublin doesn’t care Doubling down on all the bad stuff Poor Dee Devlin He’s handsy with everyone Has Chandler puppet dancing Where’s this man’s handler? You know he was railing lines…
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CRUSADE
Hephaestus of the lean-to, the villages hammydown armours seen to As if they were Pope’s robes purple as peacock’s tail fanned like a winning hand to mock the downy cygnets, parading that office He mends lockets, shoes oxen, builds strongboxes, tests locks, ensures a sword’ll knock through an enemy’s props and drop him He beats…
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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…
Alchemisland 