Tag: war
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Some brutal nation
Some brutal nation subjugating neighbours Stripping naked, upbraiding Finally raping and hanging captors Not only way but their way Inherited from violent forebears Inherited bearing becomes weighted burden Ass asked to bear until death, tare of legacy Horseback archers rare skills surpassing Indeed, anpiels in blazing! By amazing speed melding It seem’d, with wielded weapons,…
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Lost origin of hate
Malignant religion Pregnant with ignorance Lingering hatreds, ageold Feuding blood fuelling wars. Fuligin sky scorched undercoat, cloven surcoat Liver, loving blood heretofore circuited Outslithering blood ophidian Sers fall cut, it is not a war where only peasants die Bullets like plague unsparing, farmers and kings alike A die cast from a God’s hand. Obfuscation of…
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Telling paramours tomorrow’s battle plans
Hoi polloi cider-joyed and kingringed lordlings eiderdowned Cavorting under one roof, hearthfires zenith to a point A bored portal around which scrawl Esculent-redolent miasms lingering like kicked dogs Spasming phantasms in Caesar seizures Grog, groping, the mind fogging. Yawning eyes to awning’s eaves attention pay Adam’s eyes to Eve, morning of the sixth day Night…
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Lover’s Declaration III
Which Valhallite for more life would not stake All hours unlife’s estatial halls wineful gloried Who chooses stained glass immortality Over corn’s faintest Elysian brush Hasting wind making baled hay hiss Sand reforming in awe-ordered fist. Dead and so forever Flown through the arches Dark dress, mourners marching Blessed now, regardless Whether ripe-hearted or charmless.…
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Century’s injurious end
With the climate unstable Impatient seasons do not stay long Or delay overlong Until humid, drooping crops rot Without fixity, fluxing winter lasts a half year. During feared summer Acid rains quicklime once-sylvan demesnes Jettisoned for grim, austere tenements Through cracks in a haunted stairwell Farsighted kids stare out, that perilous without None save death-doubting…