Tag: mythology
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Lover’s Declaration I
Temple by verdant garden girdled Mellifluous dares divers thereheard Trees herded to queer shapes, none straight Pensieve benches at pleasant station, jasmine scented Roses twinned gracefully, chimeras dually-blazed Amazing escarpments and frontage Fruit like feast’s coloured bunting strung Bid wonder, with odd frond parloured Engrossing topiary of Her Father’s grand garden. Sunflower wheels orange-spoked, fire-smoking…
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Column of expired guises
Writing badly myriad types of poem Johannes Factotum scrolls unrolling In my nook My wisdoms like odes to toads’ beauty deface no quote book Meeting word quotients Alike thinking great minds Or rarely differing fools Of a Took Took down a leatherbound book Dense and unpleasant, inducing senescence Already sense’s lessening Tabulating fleeced sheep Minyan-chased…
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Shouldering Blame
Proseless beholder, with ear Cornwall’s Regan, with Lear Castaway, mice playing gaily at awaying cats Splayed on sands sacred to Bastet Anne Hathaway hath awayed Impained of heart, assized Surmised a thing taken lightly, a trifle Were not those lips mindful archers asking Fletch me amarous arms, basking in milk musked mine Let murrains tepid…
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The Settling of Ogygia
Tide’s navel stirred as Hera’s rage at Zeus’ infidelity Thirty days pacing decks scarce enduring four abreast Until palm’d nest God’s lambent dove alights, wave-breasting Halcyon Effulgent battalions engaging a cloud Actium, trining lightning cracking Like bones ensconced in the fierce wrestling holds of Kleostratos Cackling sisters of world-weighted Atlas, themselves ballasted Lashed to sails…
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Looting
History circuitous, repetitious For the Irish, rarely surreptitious As rights rise like tides of changing ages Venice’s cancer’s final stage From sacred hollows mystical weapons are pried Durandal pulled from stone and stolen, like Scone’s stone How long until Thule and Horbiger’s icebox are taught in schools? Of the lance of Longinus, spearing Eden’s seed…