Tag: history
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Assyrian Violence
At Inanna’s bone strewn palace Prelates sifting bird guts seeking prophecy Zealots fill stone bowls with blood. Assyrian war crimes None can deny their advances Upraised wolf faces slit by raised lances The time of diplomacy is over Bones and blood loam for new orchards Sennacherib brings new tortures to the world Gold domed elden…
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Deaths Less Remembered Blood Debts As Yet Untendered
Willy Mulcahy they put him to the lash, dashed through his door burnt out the gaff Laughed while flames ate at Hyena gnashers ag gáire, waited to piss upon the ash Ask where’s the cash, Paddy He answers in Irish, they answer in rifle He is tied up to the ash tree, bashed with gun…
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The Book of Invasions
Farmers say Eel pickers around Lough Neagh Descend from Hunter Gatherers, whilst they Descend from Neolithic farmers, those whose grave markers Astound, yet drawing remark millenia later Evidence of life here thirty three thousand years ago, I don’t remember a masonic period before the ice age This old race were dark skinned, blue eyed, in…
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Black and Tans Back
Troop movements Flew them in from the Somme The carrier never slows Upon the mountain roads That stows the troops Stoves the Rhodes colossus of our rebel movement The dizzying slopes. Upon the mountain roads What’s moving shoot What’s shining loot What’s that ticking In the truck boot Roger Casement armed me Brand new Irish…
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