Tag: poet

• Weeping at the Cenotaph, bitter as the cud

  Looking out from the highest window Gaunt regiment of flayed trees girdling her lonely tower Purging stones, sins that cure, lonely dismal sinecure Sign it all away Walls her grandfather raised marked the barony Jericho’s opposite, high walls and many years since sounding trumpets Amidst the crowd yet apart from the whole, she haunts the…

  alchemisland

  27th Oct 2023

  alchemisland of Ireland, Filí my pockets, wyrd mythology

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• Two poets arguing metre

  Verses mode Before them sud streaked mugs five times drained Englanders using Guinness kegs to make acephalic pints A big rasher wearing a monk’s habit Too much ludicrousness for this reasonable world, Will you or Will I shake spears at it Spurned to speech, some event; speak, speak Shaking his speech appears as murmur disappears…

  alchemisland

  27th Oct 2023

  alchemisland of Ireland, Filí my pockets

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• Next to the tourney

  Next to the tourney Divers stalls: apothecaries, dentalists, coopers, alloymongers, errant blades, brewers, bards, flights of disfavoured heraldry in pitiful absolution, wanton and pius forms of man, woman and beast coagulating cohabitating in drink and filth Cogitators stay home, revels ten nights will be and sleepless In thresholds willing names would drip from contracts, hugging…

  alchemisland

  27th Oct 2023

  Filí my pockets

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• Centaur

  Fetid pile of horse and man Nessus undone, his exhibited contents A severed hand jutting out as if in welcome Proffering madness. Tantamount to one night All a man’s moons At life’s easing ceasing Momentary erotic undoing Solified eyes rare with solar oil Never more robed in glory.

  alchemisland

  27th Oct 2023

  Filí my pockets

  alchemisland, am writing, art, creative writing, death, great war, invocation, magic, magick, mortality, occult, poem, poet, poetry, sorcery, writing

• Taleteller

  Gloaming, petrol fires at sunset wearing mitres of black smoke Strong bellied fire like a broccoli head bubbling saffron and fixing to see dawn Orpheus’ melodies careen in a sleeping gun’s ear Orders from HQ seek the Line’s source Navigating three thousand miles along a wire narrower than a gypsy’s kitchen Barely audible from the…

  alchemisland

  27th Oct 2023

  Filí my pockets

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