Tag: mythology
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Thornpull thornful (A lion’s approval)
In a craven cave that caiman Romans will soon know I am removing a rose’s disapproval from a lion’s toe. An ailing lion whose able feet are thorn-reaved My hands pull it clean I heal every weeping beast and bleeding heel I see If I cannot be a writer which spiteful time might keep I…
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Courting a sorceress
I feel a bastard’s rejection Masterless, my knifed cask asked lacking direction My protected heart electively plated in hard, gnarled, scarred armour Slept alarmless corset-tight confined inside a casket of blasted firestone The pyrearm force of her attention retired to legacy my defences She cast upon that vast deep a dark-kin shadow, she a Pegasus…
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Rattler old
Once we had completed introductions He launched into a speech about Etruscan nuclear production He asked, shrewdly to his mind, what the centaurs, mischievous and wise Took for their lunch, and whether their type-crunched forms were not Totems praised when raised by tribes of riders in ancient days. Next, he came to what he saw…
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Glueless ascent
Cut my wrists before I write To see if my riskily brisk bleeding can outlast the market’s leading battery It’s an incredibly long fall from dominion and a credibly longer climb back; On that matter ask Lambert Simnel’s opinion. Rocks brokenbottle sharp gore-slathered, clad with glue-nibbed pinions I found at Grendel-tracked trenchbottom.
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