Tag: ireland
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Finias of the Light
Clouds overhead, verily like whales Over head goes, bouncing off tails Pride of Finias, His lightforged blade Night bright beyond day, sawing cainnel Which illuminated Núada silver handled Argent wristed, sister-loving poet kings Ring-heavy finger songkept name long lingering.
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Goirias of the Violence
Goirias of living spear Gae Bolg Who hearing fear careers toward it Who runs ahead a phalanx, defiant Those whom it strikes die, spiked Splices poison-spiced, scorpions diced Delights downkneeing uprights, bending pridefuls Wrenching itself free a victim sans human aid, insatiable Sailing baleful naked breast next aimed for, mail-scorning Ranked highest of prided armoury’s…
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Visit to the national library
Ambulating as in a maze, keeping left Secret heart at breast Amulet below a dress AE in grand library, Theosophist Word his fist, artist’s emergence Song lips could have been a singer Clinging to a pen’s nib like a sinner Thin, square-chinned and influenced by Aristotle He twaddles along coves sandy implanting his impressions Lessons…
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Trials, Tribulations, Trillions of Miles Yet
I’m a blind man and until Jason’s argonauts cast nets was highted mad saying, “Harpies stole my bread.” Red as yesterday’s paper, red as toothclaw Red as a cutter’s right-hand knifehand kinch the knifeblade dismayed mulling over rough beast Yeats’ Buck Bethlehem Mulligan’s word beastly Red as raptor’s bloodstained dewclaws Red as Somme soil, red…
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BEFORE WHAT?
Before putrefying giant flesh gave breath to new worlds Before birds gorged on the innards of fire-looting Prometheus Millenia before Milesians keen for her grand verditure, virgin earth green as Eden verdant viridian urgent throbbing unguent for sun men whose sand isles defy seeds to try sprouting High in mountains a fastness, thereby where a…