Tag: writing

• Poetry is fucked, not dead

  Ovid for the Covid epoch  Bard-throated, in word coated Sadly born now poetry is over  Once open’d door, sweet dulcify  The lie sweetest smelling in telling  Now closed forever, a sewn mouth.

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  10th Jul 2024

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• Circuitous monomania

  I am cursed to write over and over the same poem Once-vivid stanzas, now limpid and self-insistent Verbs ham-fisted, butchers stuffing apples into pigs Overloved bard’s heart’s overlord demanding again the same ode Had we more Homer we would see a shared curse, perhaps worse They had seen it once, they had seen it a…

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  9th Jul 2024

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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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  8th Jul 2024

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• St. Stephen, no wren friend

  Somewhere in Dublin a frigid forecourt in storm North King Street worming behind Four Courts Wet catchyourdeath chill alright, oldtown silhouette Later belching towers’ll smoulder there, giant cigarettes Nearby St. Stephen’s lazaret Outside which stabbed faction fighters are left after a decent Donnybrook Melee broke out, two villages a single scrimmage Such blood spillage a…

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  8th Jul 2024

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• Muirias of the Chewing

  Dagda his restoring cauldron stored at Muirias Mounding with esculents, edible pleasants peak point Jointing out from horn’s mouth Wide as those taking pleasance thereround Shells bulbous jutting obstetric, preceding Partholon Striated persimmons like asymmetrical Parthenon Or jag’d scallop’d zig-zag asphodel meadow blends Lung-shaped berries beril-bellied, with date bent Effulging plumlike, alien growths homely on…

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  7th Jul 2024

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