Tag: imagery

• Titanomechanophilia

  Down a trainless station waiting bacon tooled up Tonight’s big bust up, everything fussing, men fucked up to get brave Big cutters wired up to packs, serrated blades like fern fronds Gnashing teeth with Hope diamond strength, like a drip rapper eating you alive, Something to combat Their terrifying ferrousity, those iron brutes. Cadre of…

  alchemisland

  6th Nov 2023

  alchemisland of Ireland, Filí my pockets

  alchemisland, alchemy, am writing, creative writing, cyberpunk, dystopia, futurism, glitch, imagery, imagination, machine war, neuralchemy, poem, poet, poetry, robots, words, writers, writing

• Future is Thick

  Cruel gangs bisect the turf Skinahans lot in the Beacon South Quarter Scartel everything between Aungier Street and the Liberty Stone Liberated from a Church Normandy named, sitting before boss’ throne A symbol to which fealty is offered Young lads swearing they have no skin in the game Cheffed up, found eyeless, no skin hung…

  alchemisland

  2nd Nov 2023

  Filí my pockets

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• Weeping at the Cenotaph, bitter as the cud

  Looking out from the highest window Gaunt regiment of flayed trees girdling her lonely tower Purging stones, sins that cure, lonely dismal sinecure Sign it all away Walls her grandfather raised marked the barony Jericho’s opposite, high walls and many years since sounding trumpets Amidst the crowd yet apart from the whole, she haunts the…

  alchemisland

  27th Oct 2023

  alchemisland of Ireland, Filí my pockets, wyrd mythology

  alchemisland, am writing, creative writing, death, erotic, great war, grief, imagery, imagination, ireland, isolations, loss, magic, neuralchemy, notions, occult, poems, poet, poetry, walls, writing

• Next to the tourney

  Next to the tourney Divers stalls: apothecaries, dentalists, coopers, alloymongers, errant blades, brewers, bards, flights of disfavoured heraldry in pitiful absolution, wanton and pius forms of man, woman and beast coagulating cohabitating in drink and filth Cogitators stay home, revels ten nights will be and sleepless In thresholds willing names would drip from contracts, hugging…

  alchemisland

  27th Oct 2023

  Filí my pockets

  alchemisland, bard, combat, imagery, invocation, knights, magic, magick, martial poetry, medieval, melee, occult, poem, poems, poet, poetry, sorcery, tournament, tourney

• Short story: Somme Nambulist

  To the reader, sonic partnership for your journey through the codex: https://alchemisland.bandcamp.com/track/somme-nambulent-i 1916. The violent tapestry of a red century’s troubled childhood is invisible beneath the bloodstains. The war which was to end before Christmas drags on into its second year of breakless harvest. On the shattered continent the rutting stags of European royalty vye…

  alchemisland

  25th Aug 2023

  alchemisland of Ireland, Short Stories, wyrd mythology

  alchemisland, alchemisland of Ireland, creative writing, first world war, history, horror fiction, horror stories, imagery, imagination, ireland, irish occult fiction, megaliths, militaria, mythology, occult, occult horror, pagan, paganism, short story, shorts, somme nambulent, surreal, world war one, writers