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Theodore Bird Feb 2015
The clang of armour rings through the clamour
      of our men screaming thy name.
Thy name that I bear, blazing bright
      as these brazen greaves.
A-CHIL-LES.

It is not I that they know.
It is not my feet that are thus as swift as thine;
    though they would believe it.
It is not my rough hands that are never wrong;
    but that have rather slain Sarpedon, now.

It is not thy knees that quake at Hector's call; 'tis mine own.
    A-CHIL-LES.
It is not thy eyes that water in fear,
    it is not thy hands that grasp thy spear, 'tis mine own.
Never wrong. Never wrong. Never wrong.

It is not thy gold-spun curls that spill forth,
    as thy helmet falls.
It is not thy blood that stains Hector's spear;
    it is not thy chest that splinters, 'tis mine own.

The clang of spear piercing armour rings through the clamour
      of our men screaming my name.
My name that I bear, blazing bright
      as thy brazen greaves.
PA-TRO-CLUS.
mariadt Nov 2018
The exploration of womanhood,
viewed by a child, who had failed to birth an heir
and was auctioned amidst a war,
to lay beside the man who Lyrnessus heard before it saw,
and felt, before they felt nothing at all.

Plucked from childhood to motherhood,
failed motherhood, into obedience and slavery,
despised by her husband's mother for the absence of life she yearned to grow.
Then veiled in a soft pearlescent,
that blurred, but did not hide, the reason she survived,
and her brothers and husband did not.

Her barren belly proved a blessing when the girls in tents sprouted kleos from their swollen stomachs,
to carry the son of foreigners, bloodthirsty for their native home.
These girls, they are just girls, brainwashed by glory and trauma,
carry children that will slaughter their brothers of blood,
in the name of a woman seen only as a measurement of egotistic revenge.

And what of Briseis?
Aristos Achaion, they cried.
To them, he will always be: the best of the Greeks,
even after Apollo favours the hand of Paris and forges fate to impale the accidental hamartia.
What is her legacy?

Aristos Achaion, they cry.
As the boy who carries his blood rises from the fire and carries forward after his father's body hit the ground.
In response to Homer's Iliad, inspired by Pat Barker's Silence of the Girls
Yenson Feb 2019
Our Car-boot sales Militaunts
those crap Socially maladjusted leftist soap-boxers
decided in delirious hysteria they've found a sacrificial lamb
To the altar for slaughter sing our merry band of loonies

Hail  Tolpuddle, Tonypandy, even hail the Suffragettes
(those from Bow, which to be honest weren't a lot)
Are you listening Lenin, Tolstoy, marx and Stalin our fathers
And all you thieves, burglars, reprobates, wasters and psychos
our Revolution takes no prisoners, this lamb is for you all

To the New world of People's' Power we give you a black sheep
Leave the Tories, Bankers, the Sloanes, Fat cats and the Aristos
(they're much too strong, well placed and powerful for us)
This lamb here is just right, nothing like a roasted fat black sheep
we take control and own his life, his blood will run like our flag

We'll control his perceptions and own his mind, ain't so comrades
find his weaknesses and vulnerabilities and bob's our uncle
we'll smear, tarnish, persecute, alienate, humiliate, taunt and harass
we'll isolate, victimize, shred and rain miseries and grief on our lamb
maddened and alone, helpless in our in our psychotic grip, he dies
this is war and all is fair in war, we are narcissistic and don't care

We search for guilt, sin, fear and vulnerabilities, all in absence
So trawl out the fake news and made it all up as we go along
create a love interest, bait him and manipulate his emotions
get a Mata Hari an the man and shred his mind with mistrust  
betrayal, pain, humiliation, emotional abuse, all those passions
Drain his confidence, his self-worth, his beliefs and values
Strip him of all he holds sacred and dear, bring me his head

Comrades, what is going on, why is this taking so long
This is suppose to be a psyche assault, a ruinous psychological war
We are the majority, with the numbers and we are psychotic bullies
we are loonies, narcissists with no souls, hearts or remorse
What do you mean a 'sterling, centred, upstanding noble and brave character'
You're supposed to rain untold terrors on his mind, shred him to pieces, he should be a broken nervous wreck, we want his blood

I have never deliberately injured or harm a fellow human
I have never coverted  or stolen anything from my neighbor
I am not perfect, but I am what I am and for that I make no apologies
I know that only the TRUTH offers real FREEDOM
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

I will say of the LORD, "He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust."

Surely he will save you from the fowler's snare and from the deadly pestilence.

He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.

You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day,

nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday.

A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you.

You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked.
Johnny Noiπ Jan 2019
Times & Orders Modern numbers,
nominators are known by the thousands
(108) and 10,000,000 words. Argmium
This is the third command 108 108
108 and 108 = 1016. This will be the
second time after the end. This is the bishop,
first bishops, third third and so on.
And the last "second category"
of the last plurality of all categories
and 27 consecutive placements in thousands
of consecutive numbers. (80, 1015),
the inverse of the universe and the position
of a series of compounds is 108.
Aristotle Aristotle Aristotle's Universe
is not clear about the universe,
and the degree that it is a cylindrical element
is that it has a mass of 300. AO chrónoi:
Each of these two additives, each with saline
and salt, is combined at 1014 ° C 0.55 °,
1/200th ring 1063 g (using the Moon's part),
Parish and Archemide-Module 10,000),
and Doctors Thousands of Farmers Opposed.
This is birr 108 "108" and 108 * 108 = 1016.
The third is the "three" halal. The president
is still changing. Millennium Millennium,
a grammar-like bishop, letter written,
and a "surplus" telephone. And armitika,
the astrological, the Aristotle, the Smiles
Egyptian Egypt spirits, St. 300 (ie, obligatory)
Aristotle of ***** and the Thracian
Scythians for eternity: (1015 80). G.
This is the second similar (1/200 lathian)
peristoni, similar to the second of 0,55 ° F
1014 stereo diagone, and 1063 grams,
respectively, 108), 10,000 audiences,
I heard in the thousands of words.
Argmium This is the "third order",
the first command is 108 "108", and 108 *
108 = 1016 calls. This will be the second
time after the end. This is bishop,
first bishops, third third and so on.
And the last "second category"
of the last plurality of all categories
and 27 consecutive placements
in thousands of consecutive numbers.
(80, 1015), the inverse of the universe
and the position of a series of compounds
is 108. Aristotle Aristotle Aristotle's
Universe is not clear about the universe,
and the degree that it is a cylindrical
element is that it has a mass of 300.
In combination with these two additives,
the stereotype 1014, each clear substance,
1063 g of salt, is not 0.55 ° G above 0.55 ° C.
C. Modernly known as dried colors,
the commands are modern shapes.
Thumb, thousands of myths and thousands
of stories. Argmium This is the "third order",
the first command is 108 "108", and 108 *
108 = 1016. calls. This will be the second
time after the end. This is the way.
In this way, the third bishop, the first bishops,
and the third consecutive, the final "second grade"
and the rows were thousands upon 27 consecutive.
(80, 1015), the inverse of the universe
and the position of a series of compounds
is 108. The universe is made up of a cylinder
of 300, one universe that is described
as the star of the Aristos star, Aristotle,
in the starry heavens. With these two additions
combine Kora's trio (10,000,000)
to the left side of the right, at 1012 g 0.55 ° G
OR no chronokai, at right hand, with Kora trio
(at least 1 / 200th rings in the sun).
This silver coin 108 "108" and 108 *
108 = 1016 is the third member.
The president is still changing.
The bishop's letter was three decades.

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