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Ahab's Reign

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princes connive in the night
a king rushed to claim what is not his
blood has been spattered
it's just one more time
but this time
the evil cup runneth over


lyres and drums thrum together
the banquet hall shudders with laughter
Assyrian marshals recline for the feast
Their gaze meet the leering mocking eyes
  of Phoenician merchants
they all smile
they all know
this king is their pawn


Jezebel his consort
princess of the lofty cedar mountains
she is lovely
deep
unyielding

like an infinite blue sky that refuses all rain
still the dogs will gnaw her skull

this is Ahab's reign
where a slave wears a crown

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Author notes

for Loki's contest:

 

 

 

 

 

Option 2

Quote:

" This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper. "

-From "The Hollow Men" by T. S. Eliot


photo by Stanislaw Witkiewicz: "Multiple Self-portraits in a Russian Uniform", 1915.

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  • Patpowers silver member
    December 27, 2008

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    Quite the picture! It certainly matched up to what I read here. Vivid and certainly captured my attention. THANKS!


  • condor gold member
    December 23, 2008

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    A very interesting write. I have the faint feeling that there is something here that i am missing...perhaps a history i don't know. Regardless of this, the piece was very well set out, gave a very eerie feel to the reader and basically moved along quite nicely.


    • DogFish silver member
      December 25, 2008
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      Re:"Ahab's Reign"
      you comment "have the faint feeling that there is something here that i am missing...perhaps a history i don't know. "
      The history, "condor",of these events turn roughly around I Kings ch.16 to II Kings ch. 10 in the old Hebrew scriptures ( particulairly I K chapter 21)
      But the poem's inspiration was rooted in the accompanying photo which bubbled up thoughts in my mind of nations in tumoil from the top down- it could easily refer to Zimbabwe or a lot of others...


  • Cannonsfire
    December 22, 2008

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    Well your poem is much more vivid than the picture, i loved it C

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