Tag: poetry
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Not Of Here
Firelink Shrine type music, divine feeling pervasive prevailing Imammalian I resemble them but am an alien, pale and craven Far from my right domain which is a distant star I am the ark of some dark covenant, my unknown provenance is becoming a problem as my redoubling strength renders me triumphant over every friend or…
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Ritual in the Forest
Silvan, watered well these riverdwellers Riven dell delves to elfin places Liminal hymns lift him, hint heaven, he is silverhead His chin whiskers suncoloured, his motley array clanking as his wideberthed bay makes her way Hair to his shoulders shimmering wet, westsetting sun rising eastward yet Stars like confetti strewn again the voidhewn hem of…
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Place
Rathlin prideful wild isle A belt of wrathful tides Rat lines upscurry landmines Bound for enemy mine Rathmines, wrath of mine Criminal tithes and types Snipers, pipers, enemy spies Swore I’d pick him out of any line Now they’re before me Can’t place his face No upsleeved ace White as cooked plaice one turns away…
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Dublin Types and Sorts
Indigents doing coke in the gents Wolfwhistling grabbing testicles, hassling safety glass 24 hour Texaco Ghent’s best offtake an edge, bald Mexican he bought it from His girl’s drug-gullet capacious as a pelican’s A 50s Guinness poster on a Christflank scratched mirror, as much reflection as pension book stamps are of a life A Toucan…
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Chasing Iseult
Fish to a gull My every plan she is the result She engulfs me Only her love can free me Thoughts of her like an orchestral theme follow me Even in dreams she is queen thereof. An insult to call Iseult Isolde Mark knows of her affairs but will not dissolve the marriage Nor absolve…
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