Tag: myth and legend
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Brevity
Always shit to stir up Send violent wishes skyward Then usher my eyeless destrier away from the spiteful saltbite tide No stirrups, breast Burren bare and hairless still The ephebe who kills, the beech without leaves, In hopes that his violent, hope-raping deeds Will see his legacy exceed The briefness of his zeal’s chiefdom.
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Out of his prime
Spared the ferule, what did it net them other than upset? A lord of misrule raising mayhem A sense of a world upended, among the waiting men some presentiment Of scenes from older time coming back around again; On the hearse-dark night of my birth, at the wharf Stars fled their fixed berths like fire-chased…
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Falias of the Howling
Falias, first city Therein file Morfessa confessed ensorceller blessed storyteller Orates upon raindissolved limestone pulpit Impressing on minds malleable mystical lessons Concerning conscious abstention, rotations heavenly Laughing brevity’s uncapacious face, thin close-eyed like a slíbhín marten Levity at death Two hundred years ago he poem-throated first took breath And will another hundred hence. Theirs Lia…
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