Wednesday's Verse - In All Her Finery, the Queen
This week’s verse moves from a fantasy poem about loss and revenge to a fantasy poem about a ghostly queen. It is taken from 366 Days of Poetry, a
collection of mixed-genre poetry released in 2018.
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In All Her Finery, the Queen
In all her finery, the queen
floats above the marbled
floor,
floats above the blood that
stains
in a slowly spreading flood.
In all her finery, the queen
lies in dishevelled disarray,
her trust betrayed, violated,
murdered on her wedding day.
In all her finery, the queen
floats above the marbled
floor,
takes herself through the
thrice-barred door,
into the hallway to her rooms.
In all her finery, the queen
lies in dishevelled disarray,
her gown and petticoats sliced
and torn
by the beast that took her
husband’s place.
In all her finery, the queen
floats along deserted halls,
seeks to find her lord the
king
to save him in his revelling,
drifts through his private
chamber’s door
in time to see him fill the
creature’s paw
with gold, as it stoops to
lick his booted feet,
bound to his service in
secrets deep.
She screams.
Her voice becomes a banshee’s
wail,
the gifted dead from her side
hail.
Her scream’s enough to wake
the dead,
to slay the living in the
chamber shared
by loyal wife and conniving
man,
who breached the holy wedding
bans,
who broke his vows ’ere they
were made,
who with beasts consorted and
demons laid,
and who was sought in loyal
trust,
by the one whose life had paid
the truce of lust,
that brought power to his
hand,
the service of foul creatures
banned,
by mortal law and holy pact.
In all her finery, torn,
betrayed,
the queen rises to her place
this day,
slays her king, the assassin
paid,
then slowly drifts away.
And on the anniversary, of
this day of besmirched joy,
they say the queen floats
softly by,
patrols her palace halls til
night
gives way to the newly
birth-ed day,
when gently she fades, just
fades away.
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You can find the first two poetry
collections at the links below - although there are plans to reissue them with
more genre-appropriate covers in the future. The third collection will be
released later in the year.
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