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THE COMING OF JÖRMUNGANDR
Under the tides and moonlit vistas
Is a world draped in blue
A King reigns supreme on his throne
One day he will call on you
Thought of as myth by the Vikings
He coils around the earth
Seeking our destruction
To bring about a new rebirth
The great snake, Jörmungandr
The coming of the tide
At the bottom his still slithers
Among the moaning sighs
Ships of men have witnessed death
Inside his mighty jaws
They were lucky
That they did not also fall
Great snake
Midgard Serpent
Keep me from your tides
Great snake
The World Serpent
May the fog
Hide me from your eyes
Some say I have taken too much mead
That the beast couldn’t exist
But I have seen with sober eyes
The charms I could not resist
He lures you into his grasp
To crush your life away
Steel is no match for the godless snake
He will take the day
Great snake
Midgard Serpent
Keep me from you tides
Great snake
The World Serpent
Will it please
You to hear my cries?
All Father!
Where are you
In my hour of need?
Please help me!
The snake’s grasp
I can no longer breathe…
Then the snakes sinks back below
Sated for now
Just to coil in our fears
No burial shrouds
Buried at sea within His stomach
Swimming in bile
The godless serpent will rise again
And spread his most vile
Men will tell stories of the beast
Within their dens
Free from the sea wrathful gaze
They’ll take their pens
Write a chant to the ocean gods
That will raise a hair
The gods listen with scorn
To the prayers
Great snake
Midgard Serpent
Keep me from your tides
Great snake
The World Serpent
May the fog
Hide me from your eyes
Is a world draped in blue
A King reigns supreme on his throne
One day he will call on you
Thought of as myth by the Vikings
He coils around the earth
Seeking our destruction
To bring about a new rebirth
The great snake, Jörmungandr
The coming of the tide
At the bottom his still slithers
Among the moaning sighs
Ships of men have witnessed death
Inside his mighty jaws
They were lucky
That they did not also fall
Great snake
Midgard Serpent
Keep me from your tides
Great snake
The World Serpent
May the fog
Hide me from your eyes
Some say I have taken too much mead
That the beast couldn’t exist
But I have seen with sober eyes
The charms I could not resist
He lures you into his grasp
To crush your life away
Steel is no match for the godless snake
He will take the day
Great snake
Midgard Serpent
Keep me from you tides
Great snake
The World Serpent
Will it please
You to hear my cries?
All Father!
Where are you
In my hour of need?
Please help me!
The snake’s grasp
I can no longer breathe…
Then the snakes sinks back below
Sated for now
Just to coil in our fears
No burial shrouds
Buried at sea within His stomach
Swimming in bile
The godless serpent will rise again
And spread his most vile
Men will tell stories of the beast
Within their dens
Free from the sea wrathful gaze
They’ll take their pens
Write a chant to the ocean gods
That will raise a hair
The gods listen with scorn
To the prayers
Great snake
Midgard Serpent
Keep me from your tides
Great snake
The World Serpent
May the fog
Hide me from your eyes
Published 26th Jul 2013
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Also good stuff. There are many monsters who will be let lose at Ragnarök. The most terrible is the one in your poem. I myself was more interested in Fenrir. I have written a poem about him (in a way) that I will post later.
26th Jul 2013 6:12am
26th Jul 2013 6:15am
26th Jul 2013 2:15pm
Ah, "Jormungandr," the world snake.
Symbolic of the temptation that the
world is wrapped in.
The world dwells in an atmosphere of
temptation/Lust.
A great write.
What people do not understand is that
what they like to call, "Mythology,"
was actually an concise and profound
understanding of the world written in
an, "Metaphorica," sense using,
"Symbolism," but very true.
The, "Norse," were on a deeper level.
Very profound write, Hades... Pan
Symbolic of the temptation that the
world is wrapped in.
The world dwells in an atmosphere of
temptation/Lust.
A great write.
What people do not understand is that
what they like to call, "Mythology,"
was actually an concise and profound
understanding of the world written in
an, "Metaphorica," sense using,
"Symbolism," but very true.
The, "Norse," were on a deeper level.
Very profound write, Hades... Pan
26th Jul 2013 2:16pm
26th Jul 2013 7:17pm
When I read your pieces like this I'm transported to a mythic time; and even beyond the folklore the men of the times battled elements and conditions with little more than clubs and spears ... Incredible.
Bravo Warrior Poet!
P.S. ... You definitely should have gone to Dragon Con; I also have a cousin who plays Detective Deena Pilgrim (Susan Heyward) in POWERS (an adaption of the graphic novel); she's done a few Comic Cons and says they're great!
4th Sep 2015 7:56pm
Thank you for that, my friend. One of the greatest compliments us poets can receive is sparking someone else's imagination.
One day DragonCon will be in the cards.
One day DragonCon will be in the cards.
