Tag: historical fiction

• Ringfort, inner wall

  A place in stasis, where time is stalled Ancient mazes, and trunk-thick walls Even the drunkest thick applauds Offering plaudits to ancestors, whose ancient Gods Were of field and forest, bring hods to the old bog Bring the nippleless king, seeking the sog; all this and more I saw At the Hillfort in Rathgall The…

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  2nd Mar 2025

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• The fearless cannot flee

  The fearless cannot flee, even as those holding walls fall to scree They see no danger, death seems not only distant but an impossibility They ride out from the safety of the inner keep to the overtaken streets Blades in hand, shaken aloft, you will never take us alive, they adopt Bear fury, conjuring from…

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  26th Aug 2024

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• March of Hannibal unplanned

  I am indomitable unstoppable Rome-abhorring Captain Hannibal Children taken, wrenched from mothers’ grasps the land’s span Fed to fearsome hilltop tophets, prophets engage, nay enrage Deities of constraint and malfeasance, grant passage my grand animals Across glacial Alpen passages, that my elpends inexpendable Can depend through that passing and be penned after Rome’s taking Men…

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  24th 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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• Tenement Child

  No minging SIPTU yet Buildings in situ since age knows who Cén aois thú? Since poulaine boots sought thingmote justice, since ringforts. Cornmarket in view, take left to but never take a Liberty Homeless wretch jellied gums in climes gelid stitchless atishoos Cold knotting around filth-berotted neck a firmly noose Got pox in Monto knocking…

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  8th Jul 2024

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