Challenge
Challenge of the Week XCIX
Kingdom Come. Democracy has not always existed. Before there was democracy, there were kings, queens, and monarchs. The setting is a land governed by a monarchy. Be the monarch tyrannical or benevolent, they rule absolutely and cast a long shadow. You can write from within the walls of the palace, or from without.
Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose.
King of Caves
Earth rumbled
but I was king
falling through time
in bloody cave
creeping furtively
through nine lives
leaving fur traces
wherever I padded
a gift to mankind –
the prince of dawn
bowing my head
before my beauty
wild ancestry lurking
in my bones
dividing and multiplying
feral and proud
dwelling in enigmas
of the unknown
howling with winds
enchanted drumbeats
stretching to suckle
moon’s ivory milk
crouching low
muscles taut
as I pounce
hiding stealthily
in sheltered lairs
brave new world
dappled shade
fleeting rainbows
worshipping bleached moons
and star crazed nights
black cat king
coiled spring
and emerald eyes
dark side thoughts
songs of endings.
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