Tag: knights

• Plated congress

  Fit for battle, lacking only foe and fitting standard We coupled, war-dressed, in armour, like Vandals. Our clanging visors; our sandwiched hands of iron undivided She moved with the inevitability of karma toward a smile Determined to curb it all a while. Between curtain wall and bed curtains, the stairs curved. Bumping gorgets Sword-lording corsets…

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  8th Jul 2026

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• Mankilling manual

  Ruthful crusader, to slay dragons pregnant with stagnant flame And bold boar-faced jewels of Saxon make, and shield fragments, Which elsewise would have broken Before Billy the Bastard’s Domesday book ere opened, One must lure the beast from its cave to some open place At all times, one’s mount must be maintained In close, inside…

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  6th Mar 2026

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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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  26th Aug 2024

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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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  26th Aug 2024

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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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  24th Jul 2024

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