Tag: knights
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The fearless cannot flee
The fearless cannot flee, even as those holding walls fall to scree They see no danger, death seems not only distant but an impossibility They ride out from the safety of the inner keep to the overtaken streets Blades in hand, shaken aloft, you will never take us alive, they adopt Bear fury, conjuring from…
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Lost branches
I have to search online to read about half the family In pursuit of lost and matching genius; all is vanity Not quite lost tribes but got no eyes on them I’d scale the Wall for the man who guarantees me Harrenhal Up early upturning soil getting worms, above me larks turning Like knights at…
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Siegecraft
All winds change, even Emperors can be caged Rage unchanged since ancient today, still ranging At being’s heart, man cart of sacred parts ill custodian Oils stowed for such events I toss from ramparts Around me buildings exploding, showering hot debris below Amidst smoke, standing with tattered cloak My name by hammerous Gods spoken, known…
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Next to the tourney
Next to the tourney Divers stalls: apothecaries, dentalists, coopers, alloymongers, errant blades, brewers, bards, flights of disfavoured heraldry in pitiful absolution, wanton and pius forms of man, woman and beast coagulating cohabitating in drink and filth Cogitators stay home, revels ten nights will be and sleepless In thresholds willing names would drip from contracts, hugging…
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