Tag: romantic

• Light garden symphony II

  A rosemary sprig a meal fixture, pink pigworts  And openbook celandine like a child’s impression of a flower Midnight fruit lowhanging brought to my waiting fangs My pangs bridled, if only for a while Fire filled sefirot rotting on coffinwood branches, Spring reclaiming Lanterns sprouting gaily, shoots upshooting like backward comets  Winter-blanched branches and boughs…

  alchemisland

  18th Aug 2024

  Filí my pockets

  alchemisland, creative writing, flowers, garden, imagination, nature, neuralchemy, pagan, plants, poem, poet, poetblr, poetry, romantic, spilled ink, the green man, words words words, writeblr, writing

• Delighting in flowers

  Light foreboring columbines  Mother in law’s tongue sharp, marbled Thorned knight the milk thistle A son of cursed Lambton. Stately elms housing owls Brocaded with striations  Big pink bouquets of Stinking Billies  For trenchant bully Orange William. In pale June Maylings still maere Gaunt and bare, as yet hairless In stolid boughs repose black bores…

  alchemisland

  10th Jul 2024

  Filí my pockets

  alchemisland, botany, creative writing, flora, flowers, garden, growth, imagination, lush, nature, neuralchemy, plants, poem, poet, poetry, romantic, virgo

• Fragments from the broken wheel

  Dublionysus, Mangan’s lurid epic penned in an absinthopium haze. The poet’s correspondence highlights a mysterious redheaded bedmate who tended his fleshly pangs during the tract’s 23 day construction period but her name, like Mangan’s manuscript, is lost.  Themes of national and personal confination abound in Mangan’s work and seem to reify thematically as assignments in…

  alchemisland

  21st Aug 2023

  alchemisland of Ireland, Filí my pockets, Short Stories, wyrd mythology

  alchemisland, cain, creative writing, diomedes, gnostic, gothic, history, imagery, imaginal realms, imagination, irish history, irish poetry, james clarence mangan, literary anecdote, lurid, lurid tales from lost time, magic, mangan, occult, occultism, opium, paganism, prose, romantic, short story, shorts, sorcery, vampire, weird history, writers, writing