Poems of pain I: Prophecies Nostradamus skipped
From the edge of wilderness, to the precipice
Of fulfilment, a man becomes a jackal,
A man becomes a thing of blood and gore.
To ask later; when did I hurt you and if I did,
Did you not see my desperation?
Did you not hear my cry cover the earth?
Darkness becomes the moon
Like a cassock becomes a monk
And death is a silent witness of it all.
And children burying fathers with gold
But hunger cries without, for food
With swollen feet to water fevered dreams.
Each replay is an echo of tomorrow's agony
But every broken body is dressed in silk
And sweet perfume hides the rank smell.
And the chicken scratches the earth again,
Every man will become a god, daring
To turn water to wine one more time.
Or the elixir of life, someone will still die.
Of all the prophecies that have been told,
There's none that say we will see tomorrow.
A man becomes a dreamer on the prow,
Wading the depths of a jagged hope
To a promised place of peace and ease.
Migrant stands and spies paradise blinking.
She is denied entry for sweet wealth's sake
And a seagull's cry is a bell toll for the dead.
Foresight and these are dangerous times;
Cankerworms eat deep into the palace and
The king is and always will be a bloated fool.
This poem was created on the mirakee app first. I was trying my hands at quatrains. Did I succeed? As to the subject matter, make of it what you will. Good morning.
©warpedpoetic, 2019.
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Powerful stuff! I am no poet so I do not understand what "quatrains" means but I found the words very stirring!
Thank you @musicvoter. I appreciate your kind words
I would say you did succeed
subject matter yes indeed
A quatrain here and one right there
I would say you need a !BEER
Ooh it has to have end rhymes eh?oh boy. Thanks @bashadow
Uhmm, no I don't think so, I just wanted to play along with the four lines, and I do like to rhyme sometimes. I tried doing a limerick a few times,(not very well). I did look up quatrain form and they had a lot to say about comparing it to stanza's and then the rhyme stuff AABA AABB ABCB, and some other weird things methods, and then I looked at the samples this one site gave and they did not really do the rhyme rhythm that they were using the sample for. But I am getting pretty tired, up a bit late for me.
Oh thanks. I actually just used what I saw on the translated version of the Nostradamus prophecies my guide. The old forms of poetry can be scary with all the rules of form and structure attached. Well good night
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