Banquet

[hack]

Then Death with vacant stare
Usurped a place to dine with man,
His quest unknown, and ever ravenous appetite
Tossed bones from guest and main course
Indiscriminate, into his monstrous heap,
Leaving there, for faith and hope,
From this earthly charnel pile,
To disentangle soul from fetid bone

[PrinceMyshkin]

I love how this goes from the controlled elegance of the body of it to those final "fetid bones"!

[Bar22do]

Then Death with vacant stare
Usurped a place to dine with man,
His quest unknown, and ever ravenous appetite
Tossed bones from guest and main course
Indiscriminate, into his monstrous heap,
Leaving there, for faith and hope,
From this earthly charnel pile,
To disentangle soul from fetid bone

Your poem is somehow echoing a recent of mines (Usurper), we seem to touch similar chords, you - with your artful concision and modesty! thank you hack!

[hack]

Your poem is somehow echoing a recent of mines (Usurper), we seem to touch similar chords, you - with your artful concision and modesty! thank you hack!



Bar,
You found my train of thought.
This came to me after reading the most
recent post by Delta, and thinking of it
in the light of your "Usurper".
Hack

[Bar22do]

Your poem is somehow echoing a recent of mines (Usurper), we seem to touch similar chords, you - with your artful concision and modesty! thank you hack!

Bar,
You found my train of thought.
This came to me after reading the most
recent post by Delta, and thinking of it
in the light of your "Usurper".
Hack


and you did a good job in the result!

[MorpheusSandman]

I really like where you go from this one. One normally equates flesh being linked to bone but the idea of death separating the soul from the bone is quite effective. Nice!

[Delta40]

Wonderful Hack! I'm feeling a need to gnaw what gristle is left on the bone...