A DARK OBELISK
Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)
A black obelisk
Marked with weird hieroglyphs,
A tribute to evil.
Ancient stone monument
Used by lost cultures,
To worship evil gods?
Night black marble
Weighing hundreds of tonnes,
Making up this artefact.
Carven by Aztecs?
Perhaps by ancient aliens?
No-one is quite sure.
Held by the locals
To contain great magic,
Neither good nor evil.
Many millennia old
Chiselled aeons ago,
No-one can say when.
Good magic rituals
Are performed around it,
By shaman by day.
Black magic rites
Are performed in dead of night,
Around the obelisk.
Black shining marble
Appearing almost alive,
In the broad sunlight.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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A black obelisk Marked with weird hieroglyphs, A tribute to evil.
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Written on October 11, 2003
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on September 03, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 644 |
Words | 109 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
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