Tag: history
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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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What I learnt from Nessus
Player of games, ancient of days Work in poker, can’t even play Maintain ways of surviving, even thriving Dividing and conquering, wearing disguises Divine walking mortal, sharing horizons with nobody. No lies exist Everything iteration of mind, infinite variation Tongues desiring to know words from faraway lands No scarcity of misunderstanding at home No shortage…
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Propaganda Prior to Actium
Octavian the reverenced, not yet August Hush descends when he ascends the eagle pulpit, eagle blood pumping Dilating pupils highlighting pool blue eyes, perfumes lies: “Octavia sports roots Roman as Remus Her blood follows regal routes teeming with Romulean energy Her ancestors all conquerors whom fettered Gauls with palsy-blue tattoo coverings were brought to grovel…
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