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Battle Positions: casbairdne
Assume battle positions: each gun states its conditions for damning to perdition those it slams with derision. The war horns sound, confounding the loud screams, so dumbfounding, as drums and jackboots pounding start death’s song wild resounding. The chaos, so … Continue reading
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Self-Damnation: a casbairdne
With words, my sentence fulfill: the weak willed soul seeks to fail, its too frail form doomed to fall before bringing home the grail. Too true; the trials and tests that beset the searcher last past the point where the … Continue reading
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Tagged casbairdne, daily poems, damnation, failure, Irish verse forms, poetic forms, self-loathing
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