Tag: imagination
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Column of expired guises
Writing badly myriad types of poem Johannes Factotum scrolls unrolling In my nook My wisdoms like odes to toads’ beauty deface no quote book Meeting word quotients Alike thinking great minds Or rarely differing fools Of a Took Took down a leatherbound book Dense and unpleasant, inducing senescence Already sense’s lessening Tabulating fleeced sheep Minyan-chased…
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Cockrow Prayer
Mouthing orisons Opining nightdying Over spinesmountains Fountaining light Larks alighting Hares afrighting Chivalric shadow of rider riding.
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Bishop gloved in freshness
In choked nave, peasants craning For better sight. Removal of stains Ewer draws puring mithril from a silver basin Subdeacons astride their Primate Christfire beacons gyring inside Like a Pilate, his hands washed Doused in rosewater in sight of the people Beneath God’s steeple Purified thereby prosphoron for problems probes Oil of catechumens Essence of…
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Edicts of Saint Benedict the germaphobe
St Benedict’s edicts Whom time repealed Archaic, mayhaps draconian Strictures governing shoe removal And hand hygiene amongst priests Whom breaded flesh grasp leavened Glory uproarious during the offertory Droning gospels like distant hornets Before the monstrance Iconic Ur-consciousness Golden incense censers furling Redolent furlongs afar Farflung by Boreas, well-lunged.
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Homeless Poets
Homeless Ovid Abutting road Not leading to Rome Blameless of Homer Torpid storm, turgid night Serpentine tide’s undulate tattoo An exciseman in surplus resounding Pass’d without glance-casting our poet. Cursed to roam without the Garden By the sawfire sword angel-guarded Like a burdened beast ere upon its toes An azure-triskelled woad naked in a cleaving…
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