Tag: fantasy
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The Lost Books of Cairo
Conspiring beauty enlivens the o’er admiring, who can blamed be Oars untiring carry troopful triremes from Athens out beyond Tyrens Light of wifely eloping, political hopefuls lend armies’ opals to doomed cause Alliances swiftly made are like to stray, unlike those well founded, which firmly stay Time which tests Never be impressed at breast-stirred feeling…
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Mythical Birds Nesting, mind’s cornea
Wave-calming Halcyons at solstice gathering nest needfuls Gold-breasted, breasting waves, unequal in flight Elegance’s minion, corsairs at sea, a courtier In bobbing nests speckled eggs like dirty angel hems inside which hulk birds unlike those seen in our climes, in our time Gargantuan avians which cloth ways from Libya to Argus Arabia to Swabia in…
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CAESAR’S BOAT TRIP
Cameral mind backing through time As into fishing lanes lines casting Smiling glory guides me Caesar of seizures, who leisures in a time of ide-seeing, completes the tides By sawing fires warming hands on seething seas, glancing Alp leeward Votives bleeding for Athena leaving mare nostrum Storm-fought ships’ unlevel floors Hands out before him like…
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Art Urian
Before toilet-named Merlin averted Irish stone to Avebury Before Arthur wielded king blade a lake lady had given him He owned favour, loud céilí at Camelot Suffering also, even at breast, fakery and deception Arthur’s Lady Guinevere, fairest ere of Albion Heir to a holy holly king’s love, eloped with Launcelot In shaded glades graced…
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GHOST SHIP, HOLD FULL OF CURSED GOLD
Below deck hidden holds, bars Tolls bone-exacted extracted by knee-impacting steps slick with stale sea wetness Steep stairs scored with splinters, the bold who defy scrapes find themselves escaping danger Snug as a manger, stunning lack of arrangement, amazement of piles all sizes All the stock ever seized by pirate or exciseman, sky-high Witness to…
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