Tag: imagination
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Chronicles of the Dusk Ages I – Ends of Earth Prior to Earth’s End
A moment to consider perception in our conception of our origins Convex time mirror distorts an eye’s intake, slakes only a beholder’s tastes If there was ever a snake it lived there in the neck’s nape, changing all we see into a reflection of our obsessions Stimulated by lights from rising lanterns we have forgotten…
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Durty Priest
Evidence I spent Lourdes trip money accrued from our Lenten fete On two fire-breathing hooers, they, reputedly, flew down from Glasgow For a weekend of beer and blow They write that I wrote to an agency describing myself as a middle-aged priest looking to get back into his mojo Allegedly I wanted two girls who’d…
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Before I shower
Before I shower, lather myself up Slather bubbles upon flesh marbled, a model a marvel Before I shower you with praise, flatter you red-faced I went in for lemon soap in Sweny’s but they’d only lime And it cost most of a pound that’s the crime of robbery be daylight, be delighted if I’d that…
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Hand of the Autarch
Flower of many petals peeled by my hand I remove books from church canons With gauntleted hands I carve glyphs drawing rifts between planets I have ridden strange axes through black places At collapsing dwarves oversaw phasing deaths of galaxies like galleys vast-masted reduced to flotsam by fantasy weapons.
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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…
Alchemisland 