Tag: ireland
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The Settling of Ogygia
Tide’s navel stirred as Hera’s rage at Zeus’ infidelity Thirty days pacing decks scarce enduring four abreast Until palm’d nest God’s lambent dove alights, wave-breasting Halcyon Effulgent battalions engaging a cloud Actium, trining lightning cracking Like bones ensconced in the fierce wrestling holds of Kleostratos Cackling sisters of world-weighted Atlas, themselves ballasted Lashed to sails…
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St. Stephen, no wren friend
Somewhere in Dublin a frigid forecourt in storm North King Street worming behind Four Courts Wet catchyourdeath chill alright, oldtown silhouette Later belching towers’ll smoulder there, giant cigarettes Nearby St. Stephen’s lazaret Outside which stabbed faction fighters are left after a decent Donnybrook Melee broke out, two villages a single scrimmage Such blood spillage a…
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Muirias of the Chewing
Dagda his restoring cauldron stored at Muirias Mounding with esculents, edible pleasants peak point Jointing out from horn’s mouth Wide as those taking pleasance thereround Shells bulbous jutting obstetric, preceding Partholon Striated persimmons like asymmetrical Parthenon Or jag’d scallop’d zig-zag asphodel meadow blends Lung-shaped berries beril-bellied, with date bent Effulging plumlike, alien growths homely on…
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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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Falias of the Howling
Falias, first city Therein file Morfessa confessed ensorceller blessed storyteller Orates upon raindissolved limestone pulpit Impressing on minds malleable mystical lessons Concerning conscious abstention, rotations heavenly Laughing brevity’s uncapacious face, thin close-eyed like a slíbhín marten Levity at death Two hundred years ago he poem-throated first took breath And will another hundred hence. Theirs Lia…
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