Tag: folklore
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Bad banana
Produce my banana from the bag It’s going bad, skin’s bistered Yellow as the fire on you I wouldn’t piss out If there’s a practical joke I never miss out Mischance’s prince, Stillorgan’s disorder Lord of local misrule, east coast exhorder Too soft to shove up my ass Over my shoulder cast, passing back It…
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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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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…
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Chasing Iseult
Fish to a gull My every plan she is the result She engulfs me Only her love can free me Thoughts of her like an orchestral theme follow me Even in dreams she is queen thereof. An insult to call Iseult Isolde Mark knows of her affairs but will not dissolve the marriage Nor absolve…
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Hero’s Arrival
Bull totem clan Campbell, not can See the antient man Reaper and reaver of and on his lands His mouth’s demands are brought around to heel by his hands His fastness a forest fortress, like Vodalus, fighters from the Fianna Who heard singing Lia Fáil, line its wooden walls, loyal to their Rí They wear…