Kallista's Feast

Welcome to my blog which apparently does exist. For those of you who follow Derek Landy Blogs Under Duress (an amazing blog) I am posting my poems about you.

The first one is called Kallista's Feast. Kallista, you were the one who started this all and I'm honoured you like it so much.

Kallista’s Feast

A goddess amongst human kind

With skin as pale as snow

Whose eyes of ice stared harshly down

At all that lay below

Her aura was of lavender

Its shine lit up the night

Kallista hair of silken gold

Outraced the birds in flight

Yet Kallista, The Silver Queen

She ate the fruit of Goblin Men

And sickened lay there gasping

In a frosty forest glen

She dined on sticky golden blood

On scarlet roses crushed in mud

She drank the tears of a million slaves

And powdered bones from hallowed graves

Yet none of these would cure the pain

The Goblin Men had wrought

And slowly Kallista did pale

And sat there lost in thought

Until at last she built a pyre

Set herself alight

And as the smoke and flame rose higher

Her silent screams did feed the fire

Suddenly the flames did die

The dust and ash obscured the sky

Kallista joined the Doves of War

And wandered night’s plutonian shore