Tag: magic
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Ritual in the Forest
Silvan, watered well these riverdwellers Riven dell delves to elfin places Liminal hymns lift him, hint heaven, he is silverhead His chin whiskers suncoloured, his motley array clanking as his wideberthed bay makes her way Hair to his shoulders shimmering wet, westsetting sun rising eastward yet Stars like confetti strewn again the voidhewn hem of…
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The Book of Invasions
Farmers say Eel pickers around Lough Neagh Descend from Hunter Gatherers, whilst they Descend from Neolithic farmers, those whose grave markers Astound, yet drawing remark millenia later Evidence of life here thirty three thousand years ago, I don’t remember a masonic period before the ice age This old race were dark skinned, blue eyed, in…
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STONEHENGE SECRETS
Half light half shadow Half snakes half ladders William Stukeley, mind you he was a mason He was amazed By the henges The ancients’ ways Kept him awake Days he spent on knees digging ditches Sweating between the cordons A serpent mound, Atlantean in origin A porous rock they poured concrete in to stopper a…
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Intruder
Who dares, intruder Beware my shooter My meshuga seeks lunar approval Call a man about the removal of the remains before the funeral Who on my portcullis knocks Who in my scullery skulks silk stockinged Who longs so much to be a skull upon my mantelpiece That they breached the keep and therefore my peace…
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Moving North
I am further north than the cave tribes Tsjuder No more the wisdom of Jupiter Contracts man to kindness Here are fierce ice cliffs, rises like lost Izalith Through my eye slits I dive through silt and begin sorting sediments like an isolith Miles of grit and dinosaur bits, a pit below Where an endless…