Open Poetry #4 |
Bitter Envy |
broker6 Member
since 1999-11-07
Posts 132Bellevue, NE, Sarpy |
Bitter Envy by ©Richard Budig, 1999 Comes the king bedecked and bejeweled in order to show his vast importance. Past the lowest of the lowly with not a glance at the low-born, nor a nod to those stooping low, he rides upon a great white charger prancing and huffing in the cool morn. In the distance, just beyond the rabble, he spies the work place of stonemasons, and from the heights of his armored horse, he samples a scent upon the breeze of bread baking in a sooty hearth beneath a thatched roof somewhere nearby. And upon the same breeze comes to him the contented mew of a suckling babe nestled snugly at his mother's breast. But on flies the king in his greatness to his castle and his keep and his throne where he sits and ponders mightily, and with bitter envy, his idle hands. [This message has been edited by broker6 (edited 12-04-1999).] |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
Ah yes.... the bitter ramifications of condescension - A great story, broker6... |
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