Tag: poetry
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Orchid tongue
Lover’s odes, Which dolesome oafs Produce solely In wristbone-soiling tomes (On transport hard to hold), Can sound like odious fights conducted in language one can’t fangle Whose ruinous slights ignorance’s knightly shield disguises.
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Length of X
Frightening prizefighter Gath giant height Despite, passion’s tankard’s fashioned mouse-sized. Anger can seem outsized but I Know David’s fright’s later highted wasted time.
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How to fill a bath
Haughty diver very mindful found upon a bandit’s prying pushing trying Hider’s hatches. Obvious clasps at reality’s edges, Evidently installed at highest sanction. Filling a bath from my open veins, I am hopelessly quick draining like colour from the face Of one who wakes to banshee wailing When their beloved father is ill taken. A…
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Explaining away the phantom’s manifestation
Sir, you should know The reason they won’t go is that reportedly The guards of our fortress, A telling pause before going forward… Saw a ghost at watch’s close Before their shift was handed over; That close, one said, holding his hand An half foot from his unhandsome nose.
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Walbrook Mithraeum
Barring time travel’s starry unveilment, or wormhole displacement We’ll never know how Mithras was worshipped below this pavement At Walbrook. This won’t brook our efforts to decode the frescoes in wall nooks, Brooks where flowed unctuously the lumbering blood of a missed Christ, More questions these deceptive inscriptions provide, Yet we continue trying to tease…
Alchemisland 