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Necromancy, and other poems

by Nahadoth

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Necromancy 02:36
My heart is made a necromancer's glass, Where homeless forms and exile phantoms teem, Where faces of forgotten sorrows gleam And dead despairs archaic peer and pass: Grey longings of some weary heart that was Possess me, and the multiple, supreme, Unwildered hope and star-emblazoned dream Of questing armies. . . Ancient queen and lass, Risen vampire-like from out the wormy mould, Deep in the magic mirror of my heart Behold their perished beauty, and depart. And now, from black aphelions far and cold, Swimming in deathly light on charnel skies, The enormous ghosts of bygone worlds arise.
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The force of suns had waned beyond recall. Chaos was re-established over all, Where lifeless atoms through forgetful deeps Fled unrelated, cold, immusical. Above the tumult heaven alone endured; Long since the bursting walls of hell had poured Demon and damned to peace erstwhile denied, Within the Abyss God's might had not immured. (He could but thwart it with creative mace. . . .) And now it rose about the heavenly Base, Mordant at pillars rotten through and through Of Matter's last, most firm abiding-place. Bastion and minaret began to nod, Till all the pile, unmindful of His rod, Dissolved in thunder, and the void Abyss Caught like a quicksand at the feet of God !
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Nightmare 03:23
As though a thousand vampires, from the day Fleeing unseen, oppressed that nightly deep, The straitening and darkened skies of sleep Closed on the dreamland dale in which I lay. Eternal tensions numbed the wings of time While through unending narrow ways I sought Awakening; up precipitous gloom I thought To reach the dawn, far-pinnacled sublime. Rejected at the closen gates of light I turned, and down new dreams and shadows fled, Where beetling shapes of veiled, colossal dread With Gothic wings enormous arched the night.

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released October 30, 2018

All poems by Clark Ashton Smith. All Music by Nahadoth. Recorded between October 27-29 2018 with Steinway M Baby Grand, Yamaha PSR-510, and throat.

Cover painting - "Untitled Watercolor, 1926" by Clark Ashton Smith

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