Tag: pagan
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South Wicklow in wintertime
Road between Woodenbridge and Avoca magical in the snow Red kites like pinioned hieroglyphs gliding in antient triumph by peerless cliffs Fog like liquid fills up the dips, out from which flit bats and linnets in Spring O’er mine-pocked hills, where once Wicklow miners traced shim’ring rilles As grille and grid the moon’s half-hid facade…
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Glimpses of tomorrowmaybe
Her visits are never timely but always serve to enfire me I’ve just now razed the batch about which her query was raised, so she’s just in time like a musical phrase Flickering fires licking at uninnocent files Adjusting them from whole cloth to ash pile The return of animism and old lives among the…
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No Room
You are the only one who compels me to get out of me The gouty skin and me as flimsy mind Separate like parts of a doomed flight But for the chewtime of one meal Your chewtoy me Left on the cold floor when due times are deux chimed You can only be a new…
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Plundering a Masterpiece
Numerologists praising lucky elevens and sevens Numbing numbers puzzling and unbecoming, potent despite Like witch-stirred potions brewed on rare moon nights, enabling flight Impossible by rights yet I thereby gliding despite Without spite, purely to satisfy and blight with blithe smiles One slight, short in height, a self nothing denied since it brushed motherthighs An…
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CVLT1ST
I’m in deep The lake is vast and black Take it, zoot flamed Spoonspine turning vantablack Any talk, I answer back Every joke you laugh I know you’re a fan Got the bug, got it bad Can’t resist my Jack the Lad Shagger swagger You won’t resist my vampiric dagger We’re animals but I’ve got…
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