Tag: occultism

• Homemade luck

  I’m that boy who, because he wore trousers that he had received That very evening On which he turned eighteen, which him as adult delineated, Could not board the lifeboats, Could but bawl as they noised away emptily, Full of women and children like the thoughts of soldiers. The clock ticks over, you can’t fix…

  alchemisland

  20th Apr 2026

  Filí my pockets

  alchemisland, alchemy, art, creative writing, death, eternity, life, magick, occultism, poem, poet, poetry, spells, writing

• Thedifferencemaker

  What sap-sealed Spring healed I would rewound My upsetting letter was the scar reviver My leather heart in skiving scabbard gathered as ever under fire My stabbed-free leaking drowns salt-girdled ground Everything measured out, throatwrecking shouts to sound down guardians These are madman’s rites; the fullbright gospel of the marooned, In the dirt, the corpse…

  alchemisland

  17th Apr 2026

  Filí my pockets

  alchemisland, alchemy, art, chaos, creative writing, magick, occultism, poem, poet, poetry, rites, rituals, writing

• Fragments from the broken wheel

  Dublionysus, Mangan’s lurid epic penned in an absinthopium haze. The poet’s correspondence highlights a mysterious redheaded bedmate who tended his fleshly pangs during the tract’s 23 day construction period but her name, like Mangan’s manuscript, is lost.  Themes of national and personal confination abound in Mangan’s work and seem to reify thematically as assignments in…

  alchemisland

  21st Aug 2023

  alchemisland of Ireland, Filí my pockets, Short Stories, wyrd mythology

  alchemisland, cain, creative writing, diomedes, gnostic, gothic, history, imagery, imaginal realms, imagination, irish history, irish poetry, james clarence mangan, literary anecdote, lurid, lurid tales from lost time, magic, mangan, occult, occultism, opium, paganism, prose, romantic, short story, shorts, sorcery, vampire, weird history, writers, writing

• It Smells Like Burning Templars In Here

  

  When I walk past it’s O face, salt bae How you feel about me: a salt bay April is Aries gearing up to Assault May. You’re salty saline  Temple at prod crumble like praline  Flood of God swerved it, salt sieve like baleen. Lighting up the sky it’s divine I’m like an invasion of aliens…

  alchemisland

  20th Aug 2023

  alchemisland of Ireland, Filí my pockets

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• Tube STATIONS of the DAMNED

  

  Oil-in-puddle cold fusion. Microwave alchemy. On-demand deities conjured in streaming seances. Speedrunning life. Premium tiers. Patreon for Gods dying from lack of attention.

  alchemisland

  21st Nov 2022

  alchemisland of Ireland, wyrd mythology

  alchemisland, ballard, creative writing, esoteric, ghosts, history, imagination, irish history, jg ballard, london, magic, megaliths, mythology, occult, occultism, pagan, paganism, paranormal, phantoms, spirits, supernatural, tube stations, woodwose