Tag: history
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Arx tarpeia Capitoli proxima
Went from sticking to margins to brazen open marches Through ancient triumphal arches, caged in marble Trajan’s heart As prelate, I shall commission incredible works of truthless art I intend to make harmfully rich the Eternal City’s every starving artist One by one, the slow-gathered darknesses are harnessed Virgo ascendant in the stars, ‘longside Mars…
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Paddyonthemove
Fulco of Ireland served alongside Charlemagne of the flame retardant cloak and raiment There showing shrewdness, piety and bravery, thereby was he raised And married raised a family, to this day the name Scoti is conveyed James of Ireland, who accompanied Odoric of Pordenone from occident to orient His glorious travels were widely reported, dictated…
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Visions of dead people
Flight instinct kicking in Stick around, source within Skin thin Bones seen beneath Inching obscenely In the fingers, at the cheek Even during sleep Creaking, squeaky greasing easy The wheel of a bike careening Spinning long after a car hit its driver head on Haunted by dead cyclists, suffering infringements At vision’s fringes, their boldness…
Alchemisland 