Tag: ulysses
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Mulligan the Merman
Hopelessly addicted to the liminal Gripping waves I cannot swim against Sinjen Gogarty merman leap from yon martello parapet unto the deep Forty feet to be aesthete about it Cease mockery, medical Dick and Davey, and save me Hoiking me, releasing from Neptune’s keeping Back to strand and dry land, reinflating me upon sand.
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Lavabo
Martello Tower on snotgreen Though we no more fear Napoleen Saint Stephen’s stoning Twenty three murder’s number Twenty sixth, Christ amanger be Mangy animals bleating, sent inside Myrrh barely covering manure scent Lá an Dreoilín, this year Dé Céadaoin Draoí and éan combine, in mind Stirring mystical archetypes Fairy tissues wishful on trees. Lather in…
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Looting
History circuitous, repetitious For the Irish, rarely surreptitious As rights rise like tides of changing ages Venice’s cancer’s final stage From sacred hollows mystical weapons are pried Durandal pulled from stone and stolen, like Scone’s stone How long until Thule and Horbiger’s icebox are taught in schools? Of the lance of Longinus, spearing Eden’s seed…
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Druid Cities Four
It is summer elsewhere, perhaps in Rometown London Which I am far from Further flung even from where I redoubt; house within a house ‘Haps without drab isle they glad sun, in Sumer Tired of this world’s crab guile, I recline sighing Sights of mind undying, pliant as desire wills Brushed as if by fingertips…
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Epithet
Long enduring, sacker of cities All sufferings, none of pities Fleet witted, nimble, suffering enmity Heavenborn stalwart, great hearted raider Graceful face warn but wartless Warlike in the Cyclops’ fortress Wearing moist clinging lambskins, cave cloying Stormcloud flies in residence Godkinned bronzeskinned, wit plain evident Resource inexhaustible, fixed fast fortress Man of many twists and…