Tag: urth
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Antient Mechanism
Once yellow sun now rash red An old machine whose dread Presence is pretence For tribal quarrels Hewn ages hence Before a red disease brought a dread empire to its knees Such dreadnoughts were conceived, constructed to reave stars Tear apart space, new Tsars to bring alien races under heel Ten millions years have passed…
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Second House
When you speak What you don’t know Falls like fall snow Beneath your snout You seek and sneak and eke out You are a ghost inside my house A false knowing A pallbearer when it’s snowing Lifting the palled coffin with no emotions showing His pale face, his cough-soured mouth White as a winter lotus,…
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Completing A Tragic Jigsaw
A conspiracy of banded diamonds Needles threaded, their hum or silence alike spells violence Like things divine, they communicate through subtle signs An eyebrow raised, a shoulder lowered Without a syllable they uttered murder Come not to Cumbria seeking covens It’s below your roof they’ve taken cover The fourth leaf of their clover is removed…
Alchemisland 