Tag: magic
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Instructions for the Destruction of Ambitions
Ground down the green like shit alchemy sinks between the skins What I put in for my mind like a Mills’ pulled pin, slowed the worldspin Accedes to favoured pace Green fixed and skins licked and pasted like a clinker built ship sailing a basin Abasing myself at the altar of puns, whatever is rolled…
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House of Life
Enamtila ejects the next to face the sages’ fetch quest Tests mettle the trials of life, love’s unslaked thirsts unbuilt nests Nothing left to take to breast, my hard-impressed flesh irons with age Everything therewith bored; some hear angel song but I hear footfall on boards Thrills his querents with paths through, judges debating seasons,…
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Hymns to Lofty Enlil
Enlil, you drew together impossible chords Knots hitherto undreamt, progenitor of dreams Tarsus upon which Enlil sets his armies That nations comrade between his seas Pleases, unleashed his leashed creation Least of flesh and most of mind, mind’s golden mean Lasting not long the leaves of language, Gilgamesh his lands flees Dozen deeds done, his…
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The sun rising as it has not in some time
Sunrise glorious, more than recent times Sunrise’s old but recently seen beauty, tenfold Even a day’s break steals all gold’s glimmering Fools old and young ascribing to arts limn you As Apollo limb you that you might walk far afield C thy coastal passage sprouting thyrsus awield Vaster than recalled Tutelary star. Sunrise as has…
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Descriptions of Night (completely out of ideas but classics never get old)
Day’s demise Relapsing again Night overpowering Bearing down Teacher’s pet Hecate’s scrying orb Tar-jammed vein colour of imminent night Censer-fog as wreathed Aaron’s Tanakhi Bats or worse ascend to their silhouettes Moon’s width wingspan arrival Annunaki Illuminating aerial sallying their numbers countless at tallying eerie ring around the haunted moon Haunted oceans gap haunted peaks,…
Alchemisland 