Tag: poet
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Egypt Then
To furthest shores Irish monks trawling for souls set course Thirstier by far for knowledge and lore than word of the lord Fascinated by the law of that older world, its Atlantean splendour Its many mechanical idols and ceaseless batteries flattered the thinkers of that mound-building nation who thought Earth flat Cats given choicest cuts…
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Titterers
Laugh at me I’ll halt the steed Gleaming steel at hip’ll steam Drinking dramfuls from the lake of dreams Draughts of creamy hippocrene Guinnessene, thirst of long-duned Essene I am Homer’s blameless heroes I watch a screen, scribbling keen notes A friend’s obscene Opium dreams As if a neural portal borne of and in mind…
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Assyrian Violence
At Inanna’s bone strewn palace Prelates sifting bird guts seeking prophecy Zealots fill stone bowls with blood. Assyrian war crimes None can deny their advances Upraised wolf faces slit by raised lances The time of diplomacy is over Bones and blood loam for new orchards Sennacherib brings new tortures to the world Gold domed elden…
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Plane Struck By Lightning
A tale that must be told Singular in strangeness Time to unpack it all now that I’m a patient Declared legally insane Strange as Webster’s Vertical Plane Such audacious conflations of credulity all in one place, at such pace, A mind wearing such weights droops, hides its face like the plate-touching chin of blameless Gorgythion.…
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Killer Seed
No fitting lyrics No fixity of fate No faith in empiricals Autarchs and imperials breed serial killers and plant them among the populace Paid populists reduce proud pulpits to dinsome soapboxes Panthers slides among suburban planters, licorice hides contrasting white chrysanthemums Phantoms below your blinking garden lanterns, hardening stare as you scrunch for answers Crunch…
Alchemisland 