Tag: homer
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Dress nice today, please
You tell me show up trim for the family pictures I show up Clay Collard muffintopped Swilling drinks, all the trimmings Collar flapping open, all buttons open this instant; sesame Described me pregnant with a beard, crying Yeah that’s him, please understand he’s Irish He can only do harm, he’s harmless He’s an accidental pirate…
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Gun stuffed into your mouth, Tuesday evening
Lend ear, Roman Mental noise gentled Heavy mantle offlifted Bleeding earphones leak Dull sound of dumbed hummingbirds. Gimme tea no nettles Shotgun lemniscate Scattershot breath Feeling cold metal Shook like near-done kettle Making keepsakes of possessions Possessed by legions of Satan’s Chiefs. Browning Version Keats’ passion for Chapman’s Homer I have a go: his darkening…
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Druid Cities Four
It is summer elsewhere, perhaps in Rometown London Which I am far from Further flung even from where I redoubt; house within a house ‘Haps without drab isle they glad sun, in Sumer Tired of this world’s crab guile, I recline sighing Sights of mind undying, pliant as desire wills Brushed as if by fingertips…
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Epithet
Long enduring, sacker of cities All sufferings, none of pities Fleet witted, nimble, suffering enmity Heavenborn stalwart, great hearted raider Graceful face warn but wartless Warlike in the Cyclops’ fortress Wearing moist clinging lambskins, cave cloying Stormcloud flies in residence Godkinned bronzeskinned, wit plain evident Resource inexhaustible, fixed fast fortress Man of many twists and…
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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…
Alchemisland 