Tag: kingship
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Royal Lions in Line for Titles
When you’re in love, it can be look started Silk surplus curtains back peeled, parting. Looks darting. Revealing a jewelled stag and a diamond-mouthed pine marten. Horned me. Dark, darkest and stormy Inside the door, a worm-eaten portal. Vermeer this sky, a fatal bride. Neither safety nor bridle. Nothing confided By that unbright Titan’s silent…
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Faded face in a freize
A frieze’s face faded, a Nessus, some equine ancient Taking hands patiently recommending themselves Prying healing and divine benefit. Splitting hairs Daylight’s destriers slaughtered carelessly Kingship and horseblood.
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Tara of the Kings
Smoking joints in the trenches surrounding Tara Barring Yank crowds and cawing crows no sounds Snakeless pre and post-Patrick, Catholic mythmaker Using shamrocks to illustrate Christian hat tricks Patron saint of patience waiting on eighths High samhraidh on Tara’s hills, Dowth-surrounded Bizzarre visions, ancestral visitations, cognitive invasions Solar placement, erection without precedent We see them,…
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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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