Tag: folklore

• So taken aback was I by the vantage from the tower of my own land’s confines that I gripped hard the balustrade to stop my moorless soul from taking flight

  Trees either side of me Like I’m moving sweetly, fleetly, like a carried leaf Down the Anduin If you are born to be King then the lakelady will hand you it An anvil’s weight this unnamed crown leadlike with light-leaking jewels Fine rooms and suites, sweet things Lingering tastes, eyries; high peaks and tubular towers…

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  14th Jan 2026

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• I smacked him in the god-chocked chamber where he had gone to raze meat for his patron the lame dwarf Obekus.

  Formless language, Daniel sandwiched between Pointy-eared demons and Babylonian Chieftains Torchlit banquet, Banquo angling for my bankroll, carrot dangling bandits  Don’t accept offers, refuse plainly don’t overexplain, simply refuse  Ripped band aid’s the trick How you say; it doesn’t have to be rude to stick If it’s true, that’s the rule even if they rue…

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• Sundaywalk

  Up Ticknock for a few spare hours, taking clean air Sweet-scented there, bowers hairy with rufous moss Mica from broken fairy mirrors spelling misluck seven years Banshee combs toothed with tears Sticking up like planted spears.

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• 8

  Octopus arms, got suckers Deity farm, Olympian father Not far from a Demigod, suckers Old and new muckers All the tunes ruckus Raining down, upturned buckets Spending like we’re underbudget I’m smoking squidgy with pukwudgies Me and Puck tight buddies, soul like squid ink Hitting them back, one tough slugger Quick spit tell a man…

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• Tripping 

  In the car taking a trip Taking trips, licked skins, tearoffs like ripped papyrus Flying, if Icarus and Pegasus had a baby who was Irish Green skinned Osiris, my green tinged sin dust Light hits the grinder, lid like a sun disc Fistful of titty, this is not fiction We are gliding lube glistening frictionless…

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