Tag: death
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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,…
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DEATH, BORED
Watching timered grains between columns spiralling When the last retires, he life’s timer recycles Empty egg hosts brood nested awaiting entry by hireling psyche Some are given souls of beggars, others valorous high kings But in rendering, at tithe’s taking, at tide’s last licking, at lake lady’s last gladius alofting All are thin arriving ragged…
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Afterlife
As I lay in my bed Watching trees sway Sweeping thought away At cogency’s cusp Images of rare potency Quare exothiques, phantasy I wonder about the grave Which awaits the made On their way to be created Great Mason, increate Wicked, wise, hidden, limnal Many will slake from the Lethe Not in my case Weaving…
Alchemisland 