Poems from the 12-Hour Poetry Contest: Old Gods, Ethan McGuire
Ethan McGuire is a healthcare cybersecurity professional and a writer of essays, fiction, poetry, reviews, and translations who lives in Fort Wayne, Indiana with his wife and their two children.
Old Gods
After Matthew Buckley Smith
And holds worlds in His
palms, withholds His might.
The Muses by His side
both come and go
And whisper in our ears
the good we know.
Old Satan rules the
bowels of Earth’s black flame
And wields his damned,
wild reign, the King of Shame.
The Furies scour the
land and boil men’s blood
With coals—and with
knives loose a crimson flood.
The Fates dispense and
cut threads they contrive
And make men meet mean
ends or come alive.
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