Tag: sorcery

• Opposatia

  Isle of horned females Pool of augmented horses, befinned squamous hippodrama Orchestra of opposites Facing audience, harp wielding cellist conducts Clumsy conductors plunk out nameless reels  Mewling lion cornered by vengeful gazelle Wise man licks fish-burnt thumb and loses all knowledge When the music’s over I have to face the audience I have faith.

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  2nd Nov 2023

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• Hunters Temple of Spear and Sand

  Seven pillars upright the temple Inside a man Angels gladly redoubt thereto Gilding it for God Banners billowing constant No feast unwined, all rests observed Gifts: tongues, scents, gold of a form Wisdoms seven magics five, extol the man Sephirah of the bridged stars Leading us to which Destiny Abundant the earthly forms Violent and…

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  29th Oct 2023

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• Two poets arguing metre

  Verses mode Before them sud streaked mugs five times drained Englanders using Guinness kegs to make acephalic pints A big rasher wearing a monk’s habit Too much ludicrousness for this reasonable world, Will you or Will I shake spears at it Spurned to speech, some event; speak, speak Shaking his speech appears as murmur disappears…

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  27th Oct 2023

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• Next to the tourney

  Next to the tourney Divers stalls: apothecaries, dentalists, coopers, alloymongers, errant blades, brewers, bards, flights of disfavoured heraldry in pitiful absolution, wanton and pius forms of man, woman and beast coagulating cohabitating in drink and filth Cogitators stay home, revels ten nights will be and sleepless In thresholds willing names would drip from contracts, hugging…

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  27th Oct 2023

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• Centaur

  Fetid pile of horse and man Nessus undone, his exhibited contents A severed hand jutting out as if in welcome Proffering madness. Tantamount to one night All a man’s moons At life’s easing ceasing Momentary erotic undoing Solified eyes rare with solar oil Never more robed in glory.

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  27th Oct 2023

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