Tag: fantasy
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Twisted king’s dream transcriber
That loud silence abounding where dead men reside, Whether struck down by cast pilum in prime, or past, Dead dropped in fields, on yawning pasture Dreaming of land deals. * Lunate etchings decorated the ex-patient’s stretched flesh, Eas’ly flens’d acquiescent skin, leathern and nesting legends. Scarab-back black, ashcatcher’s tongue, my backward sun. Bad batch’s worst…
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Mankilling manual
Ruthful crusader, to slay dragons pregnant with stagnant flame And bold boar-faced jewels of Saxon make, and shield fragments, Which elsewise would have broken Before Billy the Bastard’s Domesday book ere opened, One must lure the beast from its cave to some open place At all times, one’s mount must be maintained In close, inside…
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Dragonslayer
Silver such that Sigurd saw When he Fafnir slew, no more the blue-black dragon flew batlike Beyond his valley’s sanction Setting fire to thatches, all backlaunched sorties he sorely dispatched With swordclaw and gulletflame His nostrils like flame-fed flues no more blew out fire, famed Fafnir died. The hero tore out the spear That he…
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An vision I had of the end of humanity, which stole my appetite
In fitful sleep and frightening waking dreams Visions of children screaming Crowds streaming through fissures in palisades King ears bent to hear what blatant schemers say Green given to grey, fields unto graves Around healing houses lofty railings raised, barring the saved Only curs and beaten slaves live unchanged in this changing age The wheel’s…
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Gardenchild
A yew strangely reposed, yet no less stately Gorgeous rose razor throated A sacred few knelt by a pool Guards closed in and The Youth ran and his linen unspooled Running naked fool; running naked fugitive A huge, deluge-wielding moon cast Gethsemane in gloom.
Alchemisland 