Under the sea many secrets swarm
And it is man's job to forget,
To ignore the wonders defying the norm
That past generations beget.
Far, far down in the blackest of chasms,
Where bubbles slip sunside from deeper rifts,
Scale-armoured Hydra writhed with slick spasms
That battered the whalers, which overhead drift.
Her thrashings were of Father Dagon's doing,
Birth pangs spat ichor into the cold sea
As well as the creature - heart set on wooing
the firstborn and setting the drowsing god free,
To reclaim the Earth with misanthropy pure
And loose the old legions from locked stocks aquatic.
Thus came Ariel, mankind to immure:
A lovely mass of coral hair and lithe limbs chaotic.
Maturing, her form she learned to morph,
Adopting the likeness of her bipedal prey.
How every mortal beauty this one simply dwarfed!
There were none of her equal, to disrupt her sway.
Eric, a prince, he fell for her charms –
The ambrosial hair and shape, who could not?
So taking to chambers, he took to her arms…
The first of many slain off’rings she sought!
Then came the day when the skies grew ash black
And from the breathless depths, her great lord arose –
Tentacles flailing, ursine roars a-smack
As Cthulhu returned in tidal tremors damnose!
And as all the world sputtered under his rage,
Sunken gods once more lumb’ring over the realm,
All glorified the coral-haired anthropophage,
Ariel, whose awful beauty could all overwhelm.
Author notes
The Little Mermaid
A contest entry
- Fairytale's Spin by HereComesTheSun.
700 points, ended March 1, 2009, 12 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest - Once Upon a Midnight, Cold and Dreary... by Carpe Noctem.
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• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
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well well done enjoyable with a bit of a creepy undertone words were well chosen and story told.
thanks for entering -
BRAVO!
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It is evident that you are a fan of the horror/fantasy genre and that you have a good command of vocabulary. This is a very well done poem. They rhyming and flow of the poem was well rendered.
Mike
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god you leave me speechless everytime- your words scream at me with their deep meaning and shine in their vivid imagery. stunned by perfection and lost the beauty- i am envious.. well done gab, well done. "Her thrashings were of Father Dagon's doing,
Birth pangs spat ichor into the cold sea
As well as the creature - heart set on wooing
the firstborn and setting the drowsing god free,
To reclaim the Earth with misanthropy pure
And loose the old legions from locked stocks aquatic.
Thus came Ariel, mankind to immure:
A lovely mass of coral hair and lithe limbs chaotic"
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Thank you, T. As always, it is great to see that you enjoy my work. ^_^ You do flatter me so.
Thanks!
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That's good
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