This prompt brought to mind a demented sonnet I wrote several years ago, which coincidentally consists of exactly five sentences.
CELIBATE FATE
For four more weeks she keeps her innocence --
Mere carnal yearning since she was beguiled
Into wedlock with Selene's child
And his twenty-seven days of impotence.
The moon's once-in-a-cycle minstrel song
Called him out to last night's bloody rending,
Announced his victim's grim and grisly ending,
Siren to his lunatic Wulfsarkergang.
A shimmering crystal moonbeam, cold and clear,
Illuminates what never was but always were.
Its gray light casts the sacrifice's setting,
But her blood never flows at his blood-letting.
Her celibate fate follows Nature's whim:
The moon, not she, brings out the beast in him.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
I just love the word Wulfsarkergang. If memory serves correctly, I first found it in Roger Zelazny's novel, A Night in the Lonesome October. It's the lupine cognate to berserkrgang, the legendary trance-like state of certain bear-shirt clad ancient Norse warriors, which gives us the modern word "berserk."
In this context, Wulfsarkergang is the insatiable predator state of the werewolf - a blood-crazed man in wolf's clothing.
AWESOME! And that pic!! You devil! ;-P Love it :))
ReplyDeleteWow! It's not often we get to read a sonnet, beatifully written!
ReplyDeleteLove the two line summation!
ReplyDeleteVery good in spite/because of a "demented sonnet".
I really enjoyed reading this. Very cleverly put together. Very pleased to have found your work. x
ReplyDeleteVery nice. I read this piece a number of times and on each occasion I found more about the girl and her unusual relationship. Thanks for posting!
ReplyDeleteWow..loved it :)
ReplyDeleteFantastic writing!! I am always happy to see a sonnet in the FSF challenge :)
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