Tag: poet
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Prophesied Great Turk’s Arrival
Ceasing occident Fusing orient Furies heavensent Orbs bent out of orbit. You said that ere he existed, he was now dead or merely hated existence Loathing creation, artist lately elated devastated at what truthing light reads failure Feeding a novel into the hungry grate Sating themselves with loathing of him, with sin Styxworthy indictments frightening…
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Travelling Salesman
Hot night, bite to eat: beef-built burger like a butcher’s idea of Babylon Mutton fortresses from Euphrates to Bosphouros Brisket fries golden spires Cheatsheet vegetables for a picky child broccoli-denying Diet coke, and a slice of pie for eyes’ appetite Bright light shedding zealful ceiling chandeliers wedding-splendour Beerglasses abundant-effulgent as rites summoning brightness from dead…
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CAESAR’S BOAT TRIP
Cameral mind backing through time As into fishing lanes lines casting Smiling glory guides me Caesar of seizures, who leisures in a time of ide-seeing, completes the tides By sawing fires warming hands on seething seas, glancing Alp leeward Votives bleeding for Athena leaving mare nostrum Storm-fought ships’ unlevel floors Hands out before him like…
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Dog-ridden delves where no fox dares
Watched waxing moons arrive full, dancing before me at Solstice Saw ass jaws grasped like axe hafts halving armies single-blasted Cursed castes, sighed alas at wasteful capital Asked only clear water capfuls, received ashes Lash-washed and disgraced by Mammon’s actors Before Rimmon, kept God’s name breasted And it is not enough to save me I…
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Visit to the national library
Ambulating as in a maze, keeping left Secret heart at breast Amulet below a dress AE in grand library, Theosophist Word his fist, artist’s emergence Song lips could have been a singer Clinging to a pen’s nib like a sinner Thin, square-chinned and influenced by Aristotle He twaddles along coves sandy implanting his impressions Lessons…
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