Tuesday Poem: The Hero - Movement 3 Political Evolution

Movement 3 Political Evolution

Today

All

Is still

Except the carrion call

Rising triumphant

Into the

First rays

Of the new dawn

Today

We shall eat

Drink and be merry

My fine vultures

Today we feast

on heroes 

A.J. Ponder

And that, my friends was the last exciting instalment of "The Hero." 

If you're interested the first instalment, Corpse Road is here at 

http://anafflictionofpoetry.blogspot.co.nz/2013/10/tuesday-poem-hero-first-movement.html

"Baby Teeth" signing pic curtesy of Matt Cowens

And the second instalment, Last Stand, is at  http://anafflictionofpoetry.blogspot.co.nz/2013/10/tuesday-poem-hero-movement-2-last-stand.html

Busy week this week, Baby teeth launch on the 30th and the White Cloud World Exhibition at Rona Gallery is still in pre-production - although it's certainly coming along, lots of work to do still though - and to make it harder, it's the Hobbit Fan Event today and Phil and I have tickets!  Totally crazy.  Totally shouldn't be going.  But so long as the world isn't about to end, we're going to have a blast - have some fun and then I've got to hurry back to work and sort out the catalogue etc etc etc 

Hoping to catch up with everyone's poems late Wednesday night, until then, why not get a headstart and check out the Tuesday Poem blog?

Tuesday Poem: The Hero - Movement 2: Last Stand

The Hero

 Movement 2: Last Stand

Atop the bodies
Strewn akimbo
Awkward arms stretched out
in
Broken pleas for mercy

He stands

He falls

Pleas for mercy
Broken arms stretched out
Awkward
Akimbo
Strewn
Atop the bodies

A.J. Ponder

Another cheery little number, the final in the series might turn up next week - heck it probably will and if you're still with me after that maybe, maybe something with some laughs.  Of course if rallying dirges are your thing, The Hero - Movement 1: Corpse Road is lying in wait in this little linky here http://anafflictionofpoetry.blogspot.co.nz/2013/10/tuesday-poem-hero-first-movement.html

 And The hero part 3 "Last Stand" is here: https://anafflictionofpoetry.blogspot.com/2013/11/tuesday-poem-hero-movement-3-political.html 

Here I am ten oclock on a Monday night wondering if I should trust to a timer - and why not?  Let's see if I can convince the blog Tuesday is a good day to post.  After all it is the best possible day to catch all the Tuesday Poets at their watering hole right here at the Tuesday Poem.

Also my short story, "Friends" finds a home "Baby Teeth" -

a remarkably horrible, and occasionally funny collection of stories by well known authors in the Speculative Fiction community.

BOOK LAUNCH THIS WEEK!!!

October 30, 2013 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

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Te Aro,Wellington 6011
New Zealand

Tuesday Poem: The Hero - Movement 1: Corpse Road

The Hero

 Movement 1: Corpse Road

This is your song

Death

This is the ruin

Of a ruined land

Hot and fetid as the breath of summer along corpse road

The stink

Overwhelming

Death moves on

To where legend breaks through reality

And the tune he sings

Is valiant

Victorious

A.J. Ponder 

Hi peeps, not going to try anything fancy this week, like timing the post - because last week it kind of didn't go as planned.  Nevertheless this poem is yet another failed attempt at a horror poem for an anthology - not because I don't like it but because it decided not to fit the theme.  Never mind - the poem is quite fun (in a macabre way) and even better, it has 2 more movements to look forward to.  Next week's was actually the movement I finished - because it did something remarkable/odd as I wrote it, turning in on itself.  Anyway it will be interesting to know if I like it as much next week as I do this.

 

Links for "The Hero" parts 2 & 3 

 

The Hero: Movement 2 Last stand

The Hero - Movement 3 Political Evolution

 

 

Of course I'd love to wish everybody a great week, and hope that whatever you do, you are successful - even if it's just successful at having fun :)  And talking about fun, why not check out some of the really great poems up on the Tuesday Blog? 

tuesdaypoem.blogspot.com