Tag: warrior
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Young and dead
Dressed up, dolled up like a clown whose wont is to be probed All manner of seedy beastliness kept hush by a few, who know. Now I know how Simeoisios felt Svelte and fleet, a dancer’s feet, keen. Dead now, no more will be seen Tell the bees Only yesterday it seemed He weaned from…
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On out, brief Achilles
From famous, graven faces, touch-faded The next generation’s wastrels turn away, At whose feet forefathers placed Into divine keeping intricately painted vases In which were heaped ashes from burnt black babies Achilles of the willing unreason, of the million friezes, The riddle of unmade steel, whose attention freezes, Who outshoots Artemis of Ephesus, Who, to…
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The Warrior
Looking left, right and back Ready for the rear attack Fan of battle tactics, read Musashi Read Sun Tzu after Black kimono banded by a golden sash In my garden at dusk, imagining blossoms, slashing At a man of straw dressed in your fashions I am not without compassion but if I heard you’re talking…
Alchemisland 