Tag: history
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Black47back
Potatoes blight-smothered Bright uniformed enforcers Turfing out sunken Mothers Brother killing brother Proddie oaths uttered Eating weeds stifling hunger Brits living it up Legs up at the Ritz Taigs taking the sip Of traitor’s soup Trains of troopers Trained for rural evictions Such scenes lately fixtures Long fissures, spuds dead in lazy beds Country is…
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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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Tara of the Kings
Smoking joints in the trenches surrounding Tara Barring Yank crowds and cawing crows no sounds Snakeless pre and post-Patrick, Catholic mythmaker Using shamrocks to illustrate Christian hat tricks Patron saint of patience waiting on eighths High samhraidh on Tara’s hills, Dowth-surrounded Bizzarre visions, ancestral visitations, cognitive invasions Solar placement, erection without precedent We see them,…