Tag: mythology
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Over there they treat us like
I am the rust-jammed hatch things vanish casually into. Matte blackness I am that. Roaring stag, abhorring all practice unlordly; Sword unsheathing a resort only for When foes mean to stab the impertinent, mismanaged slab Of my sagging collaborative flesh like day labouring Keats. * Replies by ripple this dirty nail paint’d Grit-flavoured water, stagnant…
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Cusp rider
What I’m about to do Blue as Marge’s do. Glued to my exhaust chute, Polluted on Grey Goose and Fanta Exotic on the rocks With creme de cacao chocolate chasers, I call the mix the Scrooge Shocker. Spot-marking X formed by pollution from passing planes, sky pale blue, Exhausted recluse walking Stillorgan to Syracuse in…
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Dragonslayer
Silver such that Sigurd saw When he Fafnir slew, no more the blue-black dragon flew batlike Beyond his valley’s sanction Setting fire to thatches, all backlaunched sorties he sorely dispatched With swordclaw and gulletflame His nostrils like flame-fed flues no more blew out fire, famed Fafnir died. The hero tore out the spear That he…
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Desecrating Hector’s corpse
Bareback riding the mightiest piebald Once owned by Scythian tribes Scared inside, the rebel tribes Send him out. The devil is arrived, I am come to claim my prize. Beat Hector in a one on one trial Now I’m doing circuits of his city His severed head divested now of princely circlet His dragged and…
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Viewing platform
From a distant ship’s drip wet foredeck Allies straddling still the winedark sea, awaiting clearance Watch deathbringer Achilles reduce to scree Properties inside which Troy’s unfamiliar Gods linger. In lines are masterless fighters: Vast cannibal tribes barely upright, Hoplites with hex-imbued pilums. Skull-chipping the dart-accurate stones of peltasts and casters The dead left behind Their…
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