Tag: magic
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Vision of Midnight Hills in Gothic Splendour
Pink mist ensorcells moon-blued hill round Bone-choked dells wolf-delved cauldron vespers Humbled observers shake like web-caught leaves The distantly gaunt decorous in proximity Wonder-fraught moors moon-bleached Moon a haunted world Branches sag bitter-bitten orbs Grace of glass and flesh forbidden to iron Ferrous quills construct codices paperless Khmer colonnettes scanned from every angle Irreplicable in…
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Lover’s Arm
Rose-wrapped ivory tower your gold-sawed finger regimentally straight Bushel of pallid shorn staves triangled inside smokerise-shape-sleeve Nails pearlescent, docking round of sunrise paler Scent recollection’s ease; Hers resurrected Nazarene Sweet heaven-sent honey on hair, harlot high priestess Castilian rose scent surrounds myroblyte’s enclosure Stealing glances, steeling lances the cirrus banks of heaven hot with horse-breath…
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Homework
God mountain maker He takes his scales to everything and modifies the surfeit With an arch engineer’s autistic precision The spread legs of his vast compass form a darkening arch over the world. His works are balanced Light twinned to dark, exceeding it in number if not in boldness Craft built like the universe was…
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Instructions For A Wake
Venerate my demise Venerate me at my demise Whether I was a miser hard on dimes A master charmer fixed on dames A mixer and hod carrier fixing Dame Street Bury me like I was a king Abounding fires let girdle the spot Vile earth in paces measured Payments eclipse my sightless eyes boatman’s tithe…
Alchemisland 