Tag: historical fiction
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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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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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Ancient Eastern War
Missileridden banners looking mothbitten, fluttering wind influenced In like rhythm pilgrim army carves a line Lion pelts clasped at breast by gold-threaded brooches Veterans with hangedman wisdom hang on the rhythm of a lissome Emperor’s words His pearl-footed sandals move aside sand into piles of gold as vault his banks He offers no thanks for…
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Smashed at Actium
Gold much in Egypt Gods older than the foam which drank Atlantis Arch fantasist whose phantom hand called up every flower He toward whom all followers tend eventually Ear lender whose housing lobes empathic eternal paternal tenderness At disposal every power, every rotad hour known to he Oldest When ceaseless cleansing rains started, the heart…
Alchemisland 