Ella and Eidelvard: Narrative Verse

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

Electra Movie Camera image by Joe Haput CC BY-SA

Ella and Eidelvard

I

Bowls upon the altar smoked,
Coals beneath them fires stoked,
Blood had stained the table-top,
More onto the pavement dropped,
Priests incanted horrid rites;
Columns marching out of night
Brought the victims two-by-two,
Hatless and unshod of shoe,
By concoction numbed to die,
When stars align in …