Tag: war poetry

• Bombs in Billets

  Mr Burke from Battersea has an early start Up with larks, ensuring binmen do their jobs If you spy him circuiting the park he is warden of, and try stalking past him He will shout as if you had not seen him and were keen to stop and talk He bellows about battle Overseas retreats…

  alchemisland

  27th Jun 2024

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• Smashed at Actium

  Gold much in Egypt Gods older than the foam which drank Atlantis Arch fantasist whose phantom hand called up every flower He toward whom all followers tend eventually Ear lender whose housing lobes empathic eternal paternal tenderness At disposal every power, every rotad hour known to he Oldest When ceaseless cleansing rains started, the heart…

  alchemisland

  27th Jun 2024

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  actium, alchemisland, ancient history, antiquity, battle, classical world, creative writing, epic poetry, historical fiction, history, naval warfare, neuralchemy, poem, poet, poetry, rome, ships, war, war poetry, writing

• Addled

  Missing limbs mark lucky ones, their seen scars pitied on Beloved not ye inner marked, who a dog wouldn’t piss on Scarred ear to arse within A once lucid mind o’er frissoned by insistent melee Becomes a self imprisoner Every second leaf is a poisoner Poison oaked asses in medbay Fingers crossed round marlboros Crossed…

  alchemisland

  17th Apr 2024

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  addled, alchemisland, alchemy, angels, bible, creative writing, fiction, heavy-metal, imagination, magic, metal, National Poetry Month, neuralchemy, nixon, poem, poet, poetry, ptsd, unearth, vietnam, war poetry, warrior, words, writer, writing

• Dark America

  Vast complex of American misadventure Stairwell lined with tall portraits Depicting naked terrorists reposed like ill-used catamites Forming uncomfortable pyramids of their flesh Two quid flash of disposable camera post-torture  Pyramid walls bloody with mishandling. Wars, rumours thereof A desert stormed is a desert reformed Boots recycling dunes, new kingdoms rising The wake of old…

  alchemisland

  22nd Nov 2023

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  alcemy, alchemisland, alchemy, am writing, aries, atrocity, battle, creative writing, imagination, martian energy, neuralchemy, poem, poet, poetry, rhyming, war, war poetry, words, writers

• Divine Dawn Vimy Ridge

  Marching with the rank and file Third trench Christmas, it’s all lasting a while. Curios whittled on frontlines and letters from home on a table in a pile Songs with similar airs performed in curious varied style Sitting on hard benches, itchy bunioned with asses piled Slapped knees and all at ease, dancing between the…

  alchemisland

  8th Nov 2023

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• Taleteller

  Gloaming, petrol fires at sunset wearing mitres of black smoke Strong bellied fire like a broccoli head bubbling saffron and fixing to see dawn Orpheus’ melodies careen in a sleeping gun’s ear Orders from HQ seek the Line’s source Navigating three thousand miles along a wire narrower than a gypsy’s kitchen Barely audible from the…

  alchemisland

  27th Oct 2023

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  am writing, battle, chaos, great war, magick, occult, poem, poet, poetry, stories, trenches, war, war poetry, writing