Tag: paganism
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Between the kings
The betwixt, the between The liminal middle, Fiddler’s Green. An aeon of interregnum The way of the splayed rectum, that icon we pray on A preyed-upon Queen pregnant by a sable wolf Unhorned vikings honed by gelid terrains Wolftwinned during Skooma highs Celebrants dressed for ceremony, rejoicing His eminence He who made everything, see imagination…
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Temple Ager
Bald prelates spoke of old prodigies, lost knowledges Of having prodded nubiler moons in forgotten yestermorrows Using Godsborrowed arms at least as long as the Nile is presumed; New to them are we, and old to them are the revering places, Where their fearful lop-eared Gods’ animal faces are said to appear To a faithless…
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Dost thou not know me, Osiris?
Scant relief Burning through weed and weedy Sin Eaters Who enter eager but depart defeated misdemeanour-beleaguered, Having trekked the requisite leagues to my evil peak, Where voice stealing winds dream of flutes And the many uses to which they should turn tools Such as the hands gifted to, grafted onto, human fools. Liver bin fit…
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Drowned in the Nile to renew a Tiberside tyrant’s flagging vigour, or Emperor Hadrian’s lost love poems
Aquila at nighttime zenith His toga peeled back appealingly, revealing Antinous’s yet-congealing future features His fallow chin without shadow of beard’s hint Hadrian’s preying gaze ere surveillant Signalled a willingness to be availed Of; he the idle cat His captor the long rows of well bedded mint. By dint his status, a rustic Below but…
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Binding the duat
Money in a tight band This isle’s Tai Pan Fighting the dual. The new perhaps? To fashion a glorious wishmaker we must take your hand A falchion slash any valorous lad worth his dash should stand. The last palace’s muted collapse in a hazardous, sneering badland, Not an ear around to hear the ground finally…
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