Summer skies turned autumn
blaze blue with heralding;
conquering death in song!
Mountain passes cascade,
echoing voices propelled
through chiseled ravines.
Untouched by mortal hands,
only angel breath and gods
have passed upon this causeway.
Bleak cold mounts chivalrous sapphire,
shouting honor and freedom
through paths of conquered lands.
Perils have pounded plunders
cremating bloodied fields
to the ashen earth of life.
Death pulls her pitied dance
from kneeling mongrels
disconsolate within fired hues.
Gilded courses of aspen leaves
cleave chromatic October skies
wielding more than season's change -
riveting an unrelenting fall.
Author notes
Prompts: Image "Liquid Gold" by Gerry Pacher
Quote:
"...And sang within the bloody wood
When Agamemnon cried aloud
And let their liquid siftings fall
To stain the stiff dishonoured shroud."
~T.S. Eliot {1819-1880}
Definitions of Color For This Theme:
bloody: sanguineous (blood-red)
liquid: azuline blue
aurulent: gold-coloured
A contest entry
- 99 GRAPHICS OF GOLD ON THE WALL...A Quote & Colour Theme by Blue Rew.
1095 points, ended September 13, 2008, 6 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
Comments
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Visions that take us to those unseen places, untouched by mortal hands, through paths of conquered lands. I find so much beauty in the words spilling from your pen.
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Aww Pam you are still delighting me with your
magic. such depth to this one. Brillant work as always
love and light.
Frozentearz
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Excellent how the imagery comes together
seamlessly with meaning. Verse that marks
the image as divine waters, colours sacred
to spirits liberated. No hitches, this pours
liquid from the page. Blue
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Fall then Winter
way too early this year.
I am not ready!
Seems you and I were awaiting the melting of the snow and ice just yesterday.
Very interesting write Pam.
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