Wednesday March 4th, 2020

The exercise:

Write about: the warlord.

2 comments:

Greg said...

I am curious to know if Warlord is somehow connected with your volunteering at the learning centre. I have visions of you being banned from helping out now, having conscripted all the children and led a crusade....

I'm a little short on time this morning so we'll have to step aside from the main story for a day.

Warlord
Water pools, beneath trees, in ruts, under bodies.
An army, or what's left of it,
Rots away as rain peters out and skies clear at last.
Light-fingered scavengers dart about like blackened
Ortolans sipping nectar from battlefield flowers, and
Rufus, Warlord of Anteigne walks amongst the
Dead, kicking them and hoping for signs of life.

Marc said...

Greg - hah, I suppose that would be one way to not get asked back...

And yeah, I wasn't sure if this prompt would fit in with your story, so I guess the timing worked out!

That's a fantastic acrostic, that I didn't even realize was an acrostic until my second time through. Love the descriptions, and the final two lines are so, so good.