Friday Poetry Blogging, Oregon’s better than your state edition
Lion and Lioness - Edwin Markham, United States Poet Laureate and born 1.6 miles from where I currently reside.
One night we were together, you and I,
And had unsown Assyria for a lair,
Before the walls of Babylon rose in air.
How languid hills were heaped along the sky,
And white bones marked the wells of alkali,
When suddenly down the lion-path a sound . . .
The wild man-odor . . . then a crouch, a bound,
And the frail Thing fell quivering with a cry!
Your yellow eyes burned beautiful with light:
The dead man lying there quieted and white:
I roared my triumph over the desert wide,
Then stretched out, glad for the sands and satisfied;
And through the long, star-stilled Assyrian night,
I felt your body breathing by my side.
A drive by comment to wish you and yours a peaceful and contented Easter.
markfromireland
Comment by markfromireland — April 14, 2006 @ 10:26 pm
Lions used to eat Assyrians. So you see, it’s funny because it’s true.
Comment by teh l4m3 — April 17, 2006 @ 6:13 pm