Tag: poem
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Raiding in blue
Caked, tugged at, sucked back, slowgoing, wading Lost Tommies shelldefeaned leadpregnant Advancing slowly whilst grenaded Man insane to go against machines Without officer’s baton and ironed strides. Imagining ranks of young Frenchmen Artists and teachers, future lynchpins Of society and pillars, perhaps, some Sons prodigal, the rum-dumbed But none death deserving None so numb to…
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Life’s estate undervalued underhanded
Why does Zeus hate me? Malice in thunderhand Where do zoots take me? Alice in Wonderland My will now a lost thing, gone with Altantis and Thunderbird Photos Kapnósynthesis, I am a Scythian Indigent mad on Cannabis My train and carriage long as a lasting marriage Vast tents of canvas blot a land West of…
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Lighter flick
Leaning my paper horn into wheel-roused light Night-dispelling Djeep lighter Like a rhino moth self-immolating, singeing sins I creep higher How many recessions I sessioned through Sticking skins throughout the pandemic, trying to give lungs helmet The words surprise my vision but a fissure betwixt, thick vincula My pungent stick like Stephen’s Mullingar ashplant ferries…
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Caught in a net
I am Dictys, on deck like a casette or undived divers pearl-minded Airtanks shining, shrining their delicate survival beneath the brine Wine of the Flood, Wine of God’s Cruelty, forty nights capsizing Drowning mountains, crowning seas, fulfillment of prophetic pregnancy Solar lips kissing a trapped fish, real-time rictusing Heat such as cat’s hissing arouses from…
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Mulligan the Merman
Hopelessly addicted to the liminal Gripping waves I cannot swim against Sinjen Gogarty merman leap from yon martello parapet unto the deep Forty feet to be aesthete about it Cease mockery, medical Dick and Davey, and save me Hoiking me, releasing from Neptune’s keeping Back to strand and dry land, reinflating me upon sand.
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