Tag: imagination
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Gelding
Behind bars in straw littered byres Death-marked calves fart nervously Head of herd marked as farmer’s Smell of nitrogen Gentling vice make bulls androgyne Grandson in handsome wrangler jeans Couldn’t wrangle a cup of tea Sent out to have a man made of him.
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Relaxation of Oaths
Polluted mind once pristine prints indexed miseries to fill days In misericord order rules relax, habit sinching chords slacken Robes slash open, regal sashes slung chairback over roaring fires Pewter mugs with flickback lid tops Hop scent, chestnut coloured Apples orpiment, alluring as snakerolleds old Hob sent.
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The Count
One eye creased my device’s sight like Time Crisis, light him up like beacons Cap peak placed low, hood up Cleaning a piece keenly mirrorsheen, waiters wiping lipstick from glasslips in speakeasies If yon gleaming glass slipper fit easily on any old flipper Every bitter cripple, crystal-coveting grifter and archvillain would hold meaningful title Cash…
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Puck Fair Puck Head Off
Number one, King Pecker Dunne If Spotify had him, England’d be didded gone inside an hour Power of sixty minutes each pushing around the circumference of Cronos’ slavery orange All is aflower Hours since sense last spoken, sentences rewinding like snagged reels Reaching pure sentiment, telling everyone how much they mean Talking about reinstating royal…
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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…
Alchemisland 