Tag: rome

• An examination of force

  Long gone the days  Of legions unafraid  Chasing Mithridates  From the city walls  To the shores of Euphrates. The scored shield of the gloried legion, Now a sprouting boundless must have edges found for it. The pitiless strength must be fitted With satin gloves more fitting For making love poetry Than subduing rebel tribes. This…

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  27th Apr 2026

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• Yellowism

  For every Roman soldier dead Sow daffodil bulbs in his stead In memory, the century flower Endowed with egg or butter’s burnished splendour.

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  27th Apr 2026

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• Natural boundaries

  The end of all rainbows Where mightiness ends Where mightier no longer lends itself To prolonging Rome. Let clefts  And shelves and sheets and seas  And peaks and marshes rank with disease  Mark borders, beyond which no Roman feet  No roman fleets  No roman steels Shall seek to steal Or impose leanmaking tithes  A screaming…

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  24th Apr 2026

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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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  23rd Apr 2026

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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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  18th Apr 2026

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