Tag: poet
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King of pugilists at prayer
Bait a jab, dip Clasp hands behind hips, lift From Keramoti to Thassos, boxers by dayglow go to heroic groves Clove-scented, seated on cloven stone cloven-footed one’s throne Overgrown with old foliage, foliate head emerging Flaxen hair a chervil mound, summoned by Amergin He most unservile, rilled nubile verdant Dante rootcheeked Atlantean Lord of leafed…
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Slympics
Slim pickings this year’s Olympics Injecting, pinpricks, they’re no diabetics They’re not letting in Ozempics Seditionists blowing up trams, cutting wires Fuck knows I’m trying, lion defiant God loves a tryer, triumphant medalist I’m on the pedestal with my golden fistful, Midas Argent consider a failure Ardent for thy grail. Wanna win you better pray,…
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Vanity ending
Dull sanity’s surfeit blanches planned child planet, and all vanity Vanishes as gleaming spires millennia highering are lain as Atlantis Below below cold cod-cursed Atlantic, with Hy-Brasil and the Yanks Seven years before the apocalypse, Ireland will sink in mercy to the Irish More frequent dreams of a red Mersey screaming, gleaming slaughterine Sun’s horses’…
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March of Hannibal unplanned
I am indomitable unstoppable Rome-abhorring Captain Hannibal Children taken, wrenched from mothers’ grasps the land’s span Fed to fearsome hilltop tophets, prophets engage, nay enrage Deities of constraint and malfeasance, grant passage my grand animals Across glacial Alpen passages, that my elpends inexpendable Can depend through that passing and be penned after Rome’s taking Men…
Alchemisland 