Caliphatal |
(A tribute to Kemal Attaturk) Arabian knight's fantasy djinn's gourmand souffle arrhythmic drums of oil red carpets of silkworm bright tracers crescent sparked ebon sands and charred bricks Sumer's folly, Akkad's lament Babylon's drowned streams Gallic croissants of shamelessness eagles rending scrofulous flesh deboning horror's hidden crypts dulling scimitars, splintering spears Astarte's mate to Medina's idol Mesopotamian cradle of blood numberless, mindless seekers of void emptiness clotted with prophetless words shocked and awed and burned to ash gourds of travail, yoked spines of clay targeted rivers and bursted berms besieged misled to loyalist tombs fractured, marrowed, whittled to shards limbless stretching, odorless stench blinded visions, silent cacophony icon's dictates forgotten and flawed |
