Tag: rites
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Single source
One candle alone illuming Deepsea darkness all consuming Blew it out, flame guttered then died, in that confusion Something went missing Kissing a skinless aristocrat in exchange for a blood transfusion Killing the occluder tears down the illusion.
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Rotic
Sky red as a bromine solution Into which a toothsome alchemer, Fool’s son, diffused: Tears of Lys and Siren’s Tunes, Dragonprey barely chewed, Chaste maiden frozen mid-swoon, The sense of thrilling chase bottled. Two drops of this rancid elixir And one’s beloved becomes instantly besotted.
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Scáiltín
Backrooms, whispered chats, gentle Irish savagery Mother Superior looming, bat-hide hued habit Thought the cat was out of the bag But that feline remains occluded Eight out of nine lives ain’t bad The boiling admix spat back He screamed as might a madman but drained the dram.
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When I die
What is seeded accedes to another Interned unseen beneath a cedar Like a seed in cerecloth Take me far from evil and bury me I have in the loam grim merriment Let burrowing worms enter me in the great below Making citadels of useless bone, I am a thing stown Pick a place without stone…
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Green and Beautiful
Much spirit is mended seeing lands well tended since ancient time Lines dividing fields drawn by hands steel-strong in ages when divine agents oversaw the raising of gargantuan henges When crops failed, farmers grew vengeful Reaving pale eel gatherers from their fens, blaming them for blighted stems which greeted picking men they had sent out.…
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