A seed is sown,
a bud to yield,
a light is born,
a dream fulfilled.
From tiny rose,
to towering oak,
each finds the room,
to cultivate hope.
... Iron Maiden
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? ---Edgar Allan Poe
---and not the English heavy metal band from East London...
Day 2 in the realm of morbid/macabre torture devices finds us back in the Middle Ages (there was definitely a fashionable trend of imaginative torture devices during this time). Though, the Middle Ages isn't really when we should be turning our attention when we discuss the Iron Maiden. In fact, there has been some debate as to the exact appearance of this monstrous creation.
It's probably easiest to relocate such a torturous thing back to a time when it seemed everyone was as skilled at exacting a confession as they were at creating the tools to exact those confessions. It's easier to blame ancestors from several hundred years ago than to accept that anyone of civilized disposition would be capable of doing such horrible things with such terrif…
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? ---Edgar Allan Poe
---and not the English heavy metal band from East London...
Day 2 in the realm of morbid/macabre torture devices finds us back in the Middle Ages (there was definitely a fashionable trend of imaginative torture devices during this time). Though, the Middle Ages isn't really when we should be turning our attention when we discuss the Iron Maiden. In fact, there has been some debate as to the exact appearance of this monstrous creation.
It's probably easiest to relocate such a torturous thing back to a time when it seemed everyone was as skilled at exacting a confession as they were at creating the tools to exact those confessions. It's easier to blame ancestors from several hundred years ago than to accept that anyone of civilized disposition would be capable of doing such horrible things with such terrif…
Awww this is lovely and the flow is superb!
ReplyDeleteso hopeful!! love it!
ReplyDeletelove this upbeat poem, e.a.s.
ReplyDeletedelightful,
ReplyDeletewell done.
How lovely hope is so abundant when we are young .Thank you for sharing
ReplyDeleteloved the interchange in the piece
ReplyDeleteIt highlights the innocence and hope of youth in a short , sweet but very effective manner !
ReplyDeleteI love this brief and succint poem. How interesting that so many of us chose to write about hope!
ReplyDeleteHope embraced in a short but beautiful imagery. Well written. Thanks very much for sharing.
ReplyDeleteHow are you?
ReplyDeleteWelcome join us for week 6 short story slam fun,
Bless you..
Keep it up!
hope all is well.