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Namyh
Senior Member

since 2009-01-20

Posts 988

0 posted 2013-01-20 08:23 AM

Laugh at the Devil

Kissing in the night light, showered by the moonlight,
holding hands tight by an easy flowing lake.
Frogs making croak sounds. Soft is the grassy ground.
Wine on our lips for we’re lovers on a date.

Warm air licking light tasting odors spicing night,
trees disappear down a road dark and dense.
Out its gloom loomed a speck, a galloping mist of heat and yet
clouds of dust were absent. It defied our common sense.

Closer came it. Nearer! Nearer! Now, its form became much clearer.
A horse, pale and steaming, rode the Devil who us did find.
He stopped. We froze. His words did say,
“Which way to Boston? I’ve lost my way”
We pointed trembling. Then off he rode! Then off we lost our minds.

We fell on grass in teary frantic laughter shrieking rampant panic.
Weak, our knees of jello wouldn’t lift us off the ground
‘til one frog cleared its throat to croak in air perfumed, now freed of smoke,
and said “Oh Man! That’s one strange bloke.” The Devil turned around.

His eyes were frozen fractured eggs streaked by crimson veiny legs
glaring on the frog with such amuse that oozed from Hell.
“I’m not so strange as you may think.
With tongue, you catch the flies then blink.
For I am Appetite’s ruthless link who rings your dinner bell.
I am your Hunger in the belly of the beast.
I am your Cunning that chases the feast.
I am your Agony in pain of flesh.
I’m your Deceit that kills Truth best.
But what fills my black heart fills most with glee
is that a little bit of you has such a whole lot of me.
It’s just the Devil in ya son! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Welcome to the family! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

Namyh

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2013-01-20 08:41 AM

Withering prose for the Blue Room this sabbath day, Namyh, and what better day to give the Devil his due . . .

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

Victoria

Member Ascendant

since 2000-08-12

Posts 5869

2 posted 2013-01-20 08:47 AM

Your poems always give me a little chuckle. Nicely done Namyh.

~Victoria

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

3 posted 2013-01-22 04:17 PM

Hey, dear Namyh, while reading this one I remembered having read it before. This means that it impressed me back then so strongly that it remained vivid in my mind.

Provocative write, would be ready to kiss the little frog for his courage and then?

Margherita

"Love is the One who masters all things;
I am mastered totally by Love."
(Rumi)

Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

4 posted 2013-01-23 12:39 PM

Wow... This is my personal favorite of yours, Namyh. I loved the meter puling you through it, building and building to the end. The devil's own!

Michael

ThisDiamond
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-02-22

Posts 9353
Michigan, USA

5 posted 2013-01-26 01:36 PM

" Give the devil his due, son" !
Entertaining write. Enjoyed~

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