Tag: rome
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Barbarians Walls Fucked
Rome’s antient walls with faces emblazoned Names considered graffiti now famed signatures Progression of ages, processing gold to lead Ardent flames o’ersaw Empire’s best Symbols of better, nobler days Ladies myriad: wives, wardens, soldiers, goddesses, dryads All kinds world to fashion and fill: Wrenched breast-succour’d babes, thence to smother Overmothering Emperors into neurotic degeneracy. Poisoned…
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Homeless Poets
Homeless Ovid Abutting road Not leading to Rome Blameless of Homer Torpid storm, turgid night Serpentine tide’s undulate tattoo An exciseman in surplus resounding Pass’d without glance-casting our poet. Cursed to roam without the Garden By the sawfire sword angel-guarded Like a burdened beast ere upon its toes An azure-triskelled woad naked in a cleaving…
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Desertion Before Actium
Elven lemon sky Ionian Sea Roman killing Roman, Juno’s griefful heaving stirred seas Flux disease and desertion distilled Antony’s ranks to truest champions Still they reckoned a reckonable force Skipper swearing fingers to his lips whffffphhhs signalling swift ship’s arrival Assuring no rival lyingly flies friendly flags, wolf in sheepen rag Long boathook like snake-choking…
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CAESAR’S BOAT TRIP
Cameral mind backing through time As into fishing lanes lines casting Smiling glory guides me Caesar of seizures, who leisures in a time of ide-seeing, completes the tides By sawing fires warming hands on seething seas, glancing Alp leeward Votives bleeding for Athena leaving mare nostrum Storm-fought ships’ unlevel floors Hands out before him like…
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Ancient Naval Warfare
Bound for Actium Tri and quadriremes tarry Mare Nostrum Corvus to aid boarding Bore-imploring missiles shot score-by Gore-hot decks decorate the struck Separated skin unable to suck back leaking ichor Bough-bursting ballista bolts in storage.
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