Tag: fantasy

• Siegecraft

  All winds change, even Emperors can be caged Rage unchanged since ancient today, still ranging At being’s heart, man cart of sacred parts ill custodian Oils stowed for such events I toss from ramparts Around me buildings exploding, showering hot debris below Amidst smoke, standing with tattered cloak My name by hammerous Gods spoken, known…

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  24th Jul 2024

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• Wounded at the healing fountain

  In flawless forest scrying yon gushing torrent, youth’s fountain Which can reduce my abhorrent wounds to scrapes Borrowing health from tomorrow, implanting into today I know not the ways and hidden sympathies But I have overpaid in blood given and taken I crawl to the marble lip, fingerpainting the sill with myself I recline on…

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  24th Jul 2024

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• Tara of the Kings

  Smoking joints in the trenches surrounding Tara Barring Yank crowds and cawing crows no sounds Snakeless pre and post-Patrick, Catholic mythmaker Using shamrocks to illustrate Christian hat tricks Patron saint of patience waiting on eighths High samhraidh on Tara’s hills, Dowth-surrounded Bizzarre visions, ancestral visitations, cognitive invasions Solar placement, erection without precedent We see them,…

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  24th Jul 2024

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• Nights in the potter’s field

  Come with storm like boredom Again visiting bottle’s bottom Sodom’s last surviving citizen, rest got singed I cavort with scornful forms in the halls of aborted life Hades how many graves  In mirthless mournful surrounds, rat sounds More squeaking than ball courts. Take a lich road to the boneyard Smell of ammonia and charnel, harmful…

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  23rd Jul 2024

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• Barbarian beastmode

  Dacians north of the Danube Art deserving, decorating Constantine’s Arch Marble marvels Patience of a manacle In the dense jungle, hearing Pan’s pipes Anarchy’s flageolet anthem of flagness nation Daos, the Phrygian wolf God Came from sun-blessed Persepolis West toward endurance and further hardiness Freezing frigid Fangorns fringes frostfingered, only madmen linger long Scornful Romans…

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  21st Jul 2024

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