Tag: knight
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Violence of cavalry charge
Come to drain the boils of rancid cancer The needle wielding horsemen handsome Lancers on panting horses Coming down a painted mountain Like a flood coming to drown them On the backs of sweating four legged panzers Black breathy sweating panthers, lathered flanks like tough leather Sinewy legs, much rider and ridden faced together One…
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The Warrior
Looking left, right and back Ready for the rear attack Fan of battle tactics, read Musashi Read Sun Tzu after Black kimono banded by a golden sash In my garden at dusk, imagining blossoms, slashing At a man of straw dressed in your fashions I am not without compassion but if I heard you’re talking…
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Armoured Goodbye
He is wearing armour Whispering romance languages Sands stop seething through time’s vial, all is languid Mo chara, mo chroí, amor Tomorrow, ámararch, I march without sorrow You will die, she protests, Mairbh I go the way of all flesh and all armadas In the ground and beneath the sea They trade claddaghs He goeth…
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