Tag: death
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Bygones
What whilst walking to craw affixes is considered little at lapping Styx Skeleton fixtures, smoke and acrid admixtures furling from fissures You will not think about when, in third class, you were spurned by Richard Nor will you regret having left a house’s – now another’s – ailing fixtures unsutured You will not cry at…
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Standing Vigil
For a consumptive waif Babe still I volunteered to wait Morning ’til Upon sill alighting, ’til dawnlight In her society. All night I was to wait Stillstaying A priest to pay my wage Tuppence day For pay such men slay demons, eh? Nods me away. Figured muchly would enjoy it Humour’d mordant But when I…
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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…
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Magic Rains Summoned
Rains suppurate, skin separating between lashed brands Clouded discharge alarming, excresence pearlescent President resident among his men, given evidence Enemy mancers harness magics blackest; package Placed alap on doublet’s hem, nose-wrinkling opens it Features cringing as upon hearing a bad poem Cones his nose with posey Producing lettered bodkin, dirk known merciless among mercenaries Unsheaths…
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LAND TENDED SINCE TIME BEGAN
Fields fertilised with blood from executed men Bloodmade mire, fen eels who tasted flesh In sight of verididerm Osiris Irish farmers plant Yankee praties in shallow lazy beds In sallow sedge, on the scarcest cragged edge of liveable land Upward tending land blasted with stone Handing over to rootless mountains of height beyond accounting Stickish,…
Alchemisland 