2013 30 Day Image Prompt Contest Book

"Ragnarök" (Poetry/Day 2 Entry)

Ragnarök (Twilight of the Gods)

The gods of old, hoary with age,
stand steadfast and prepared.
The coming times, a hero’s gauge
where no one will be spared,
will test the very gods themselves.

The legends echo down time’s hall
of a coming battle
where beasts, once chained, answer the call
to turn gods to chattel
amidst the cries of dwarfs and elves.

Sides are chosen, writ in blood
brother against brother.
Crimson rivers turn to flood;
no mercy for another.
Be kin or foe, it matters not.

The gods and theirs fall feral prey
to those that were unleashed.
The sun itself turns black at day
as nature joins the feast
and ocean waters turn white hot.

The Earth can only cry in pain
as harshness rules the land
and none have words left to explain
was this foreseen and planned?
Both gods and man stand in silence.

Those that remain can only flee
to Asgard’s highest peaks.
The torn land sinks beneath the sea
to find the peace it seeks:
An end to untoward violence.


Day 2 – "30 Day Image Prompt Contest - CLOSED" 
Prompt: Image 2
Rhyme: ABABC DEDEC Meter:8/6/8/6/8

Ragnarok (Rag-naw-rock) - A Norse legend about a series of future events, including a great battle, the occurrence of natural disasters, and the subsequent submersion of the world in water.
hoary ~ white
chattel ~ a slave
untoward ~ improper; perverse