Silence You Varus
No Wound Or Death Shall Redeem
Our Honor Is Lost
Categories:
varus, art, lost, old,
Form: Haiku
This pathway is doubly dangerous
That one who cuts my stitches
A tad too short
Is the same who reaches
Carelessly too close
To that dreadful corona mortis
God’s own anatomical variant
A beautiful but fearful anastomosis
A marriage of a sweet obturator
And a rather inferior epigastric
My ultimate dream
Is to broach and to ream
That sweet canal
So I ignore that fire
Set on my path
I size up the breadth and girth
Of a choice that was never fair
Whatever it takes, I swear
I won’t stumble into oblivion
Neither will I sway into varus
Until my tools are packed
And my destination reached
Mine will be a glorious tale
With an ending marked
By an exaltation of larks
Hands steady as a rock
Eyes keen as a hawk
I fear neither the dark nor the cold
I will push and I will reach
For that prize of gold
My heart will sing
When I restore with my knife
So never ever forget my name
For this will not be my last dance
In this dark pelvis of life!
Categories:
varus, confidence, deep, emotions, extended
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
How is the valiant fallen
on the mountain?
Swifter than eagles
stronger than lions
the arm of Rome fallen
to cunning.
Give me back my legions
Quinctilius Varus!
Had you been diligent,
as you are with denarius,
strategically planning
the battle
you might have uncovered
the heart of the barbarian
and Rome would not have fallen
to Germania.
Tell it not at the gathering
Senatus
weep not at the forum
via Appia
lest the enemy glut!
First Place Winner: William Kekaula-A Historic Event- 9/24/20
9AD battle of Teutoburg. Ambushed by the Germans Varus lost three Roman Legions.
Categories:
varus, history,
Form: Lyric