Gravid

The Mag photoprompt this week is this. I must admit that I've pulled the seaweed from Tess Kincaid's sushi. Visit other Magpies at http//:magpietales.blogspot.com

GRAVID


I lie
naked as I came,
fetal,
tied to earth
like seaweed.

Ozymandias

This is in response to the prompt #99 from Tess at Magpie Tales.

Apologies to Shelley.








image: Friedlander

Ozymandias

You are

Ozymandias

Standing legs apart

Hands on your hips

Off with their heads

On your lips

If they but disobey

And yet you

Are moved

By the way

Her skirt

Twirls about her

And her voice

Drowns the

Desert noise

The ululations

Of a dying nation.

I tell you

King of kings

These things are

Like the dust –

Your legs

Will crumble

Beneath your lust

And kingdoms all 

Will tremble

At your fall.