Tag: mythology
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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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Homeward Trojan
Years of siege, stalemate and tedious pause Leached away what raw feeling, what zeal, Dreamy Queen Helen’s theft ordained. Feral as spurned Hera, He emerges, so-called Hero From a rent tent wall, wine-rank, sword drawn Swearing he’ll kill them all, blaspheming both Greek and Trojan Gods. Terrifying because he is fearless Hearing the seeress speak…
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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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