I await Armageddon.
even though the rapture must ensue.
You will find me
on the small hill outside Megiddo
my arms bound,
my mouth gagged
so they will not hear me scream.
I buried her on the windswept plain
with all her finery
as she requested
and turned my steps west
across the burning sands
towards the cool forest,
where I left her cruelty,
consoled myself
and believed in magic.
The headless horseman
waits across the bridge
above the roaring stream
the head he cradles
underneath his arm is mine
the sightless eyes are opened wide.
The sky splits
and scars the trees,
the acrid smoke hangs heavily.
What emerges from the shadow
does it come to murder me?
Within the distant village,
I hear a bell
its faint peal interrupts the spell.
I cross the bridge,
above the swollen stream.
I don't look down.
How much farther to the well?
The forest faces me
the dark trees frown
they know,
I carry the maiden's crown
the jewels do not glitter
deep with my pack.
The ancient ones lean closer still
defeat within their smile
the few stars stare,
I hear the distant bell.
I emerge from underneath
the forests wing.
Do the angels dare?
only the well remains,
and the bell tolls
ceaselessly.
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Written September 20th, 2003
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The headless horseman
waits across the bridge
above the roaring stream
the head he cradles
underneath his arm is mine
the sightless eyes are opened wide.
The sky splits
and scars the trees,
the acrid smoke hangs heavily.
Sorry to cut and paste but I wanted to show how good you are. How sly your words wrap and rhyme. How you make reading of horrors, real as we speak, seem beautiful. It is a dangerous gift. Actually I think, especially for a reader such as myself who gets losts in words. The opening 2 stanzas gives me goosebumps.
What will happen? Nothing unless someone says stop fighting and start listening.
Lisa
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beautiful and magical. the mysticism was enrapturing. Thanks for sharing! I liked this very much.
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good imagery
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I really like your choices of words in this. They're so descriptive and...they just convey the mood and tell a story that you can picture in your mind.
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Fantastic, imaginative . . . like a story unfolding in a book.
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interesting .. been working on a piece about the rapture in my head anyway i remember when this was how your page looked .. -
and i just feel trampled upon
used and abused and tossed into quicksand...
to awaken to trolls under a bridge and go...
what the hell else??
stand up and rise.. you are alive
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not very brave, you having to kill her...
did she make you lose your head?
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Kind of a combo of Biblical and fairy-tale imagery, with some legend and history mixed in... kind of a Ceasar Salad poem
I really enjoyed the images and the tone... It sorta felt apocoliptic. Like in King's "The Stand," when the plague spread through the world, people's visions and magic was awakened.
I too await Armageddon, whether I make it through or not, I just want to see an end to mankind's suffering. -
Gives me the image of a shadow that follows you, your shadow that follows you and you can't escape the torment that it ensues upon you. You try to leave it behind but it keeps on following you endlessly beyond and back, not even, it seems, in death you can escape it, you wish to, but you cannot, and that, in itself, is the terror that you face from each day to the next.
That is the image this piece gave me, that and Sleepy Hollow.
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Talk about a mindfuck headtrip. I love this one, Mr.Insomnia. The telling here is both surreal and yet real to me. It trips like a delusional daydream when in all reality these things happen somewhere in dark places, on planes most of us never want to go, yet we end up there anyway. I ramble, ja, but I am ok with that. This was vivid, painful and just really incredible. I give it two thumbs up and a wag.
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Magical! I traveled to a distant land and walked among the shadows as I read.
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Intriguing write - excellent, descriptive language with just the right touch of the surreal to hold my interest. I enjoyed reading. Thanks - Helen
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I loved this immensely.. captivating It feels to me like that piece.. Saint Sans - Danse Macabre.
I'll have to read it a few more times to let it all sink in.. amazing write.
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I've read this five times....... and still cannot comment.....
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I'm of the same opinion.. filled my imagination
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An Excellent write, it's a magical piece, full of wonderful imagery, a great flow.
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