Tag: rome
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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…
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The Roman way
Admission the only difference Between Trajan and Domitian Daily training how a man’s made Out there in diaperlike pants Trumplike in oils, regardless of age Rome’s warmakers raised rage-warmed blades And roared in aid of State Bit the weening nodule in pink A ring with no jewel as a symbol Deux, dual, duel. More fool…
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Cityscrape
Not in one day had pagans built great Rome, strong even today, When would Her intact flower’s strength at touch’s hint decay. The rock’s proximity to the places of crossed rods, oaths of office. Crossed the coppice in odd shoes Folded neatly the clothes of an officer Cloves masked the stink of the drink that…
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The Roman Virtue
Retiring the ancient laws tiresome to a tyrant If you can have Gaul, you can have it all Vaults and halls, curtain calls, purple all An end to paucity If I could only fix my grubby paws to it.
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Arx tarpeia Capitoli proxima
Went from sticking to margins to brazen open marches Through ancient triumphal arches, caged in marble Trajan’s heart As prelate, I shall commission incredible works of truthless art I intend to make harmfully rich the Eternal City’s every starving artist One by one, the slow-gathered darknesses are harnessed Virgo ascendant in the stars, ‘longside Mars…
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