Tag: gothic

• Cernunnos

  This feast Cernunnos made for you Incense peels temporary wraiths, gyring to gladetop Deep drain circling blood thrice cough He hath prepared it mindfully knowing all things, toward some hidden end Past a heaving, heathen throat stings  Deep drain toward higher purpose.  In woods he told me  I have seen him dancing More often this…

  alchemisland

  8th Jan 2024

  Filí my pockets

  2018, alchemisland, alchemy, cernunnos, creative writing, glade, glade god, gothic, great god pan, horned god, horned gods, imagination, magic, nature, nature poetry, nature worship, neuralchemy, occult, old poem, pagan, paganism, poem, poet, poetry, throwback, votive art, writing

• Mariner; Wayward

  Pensive sailor muses portside Pale waning moonlight sops his brow Wind scuffles tousled dun headed Whereboundnow? Beneath stained windows Bombay’s mughalificence Thousand-hued Byzantine domes shimmering Palmed avenues above port million-stoned-studded pasty rows Tarry briefly. Hard-earned, hard-seized pried from the cold, dead hands of reluctant natives Fought their wretched corner, crimson-sash Captain muttering in cups Every…

  alchemisland

  8th Jan 2024

  Filí my pockets

  2018, alchemisland, alchemy, creative writing, gothic, imagination, magic, neuralchemy, old poem, poem, poet, poetry, throwback, writing

• Fragments from the broken wheel

  Dublionysus, Mangan’s lurid epic penned in an absinthopium haze. The poet’s correspondence highlights a mysterious redheaded bedmate who tended his fleshly pangs during the tract’s 23 day construction period but her name, like Mangan’s manuscript, is lost.  Themes of national and personal confination abound in Mangan’s work and seem to reify thematically as assignments in…

  alchemisland

  21st Aug 2023

  alchemisland of Ireland, Filí my pockets, Short Stories, wyrd mythology

  alchemisland, cain, creative writing, diomedes, gnostic, gothic, history, imagery, imaginal realms, imagination, irish history, irish poetry, james clarence mangan, literary anecdote, lurid, lurid tales from lost time, magic, mangan, occult, occultism, opium, paganism, prose, romantic, short story, shorts, sorcery, vampire, weird history, writers, writing