Axis & Allies - damowords

The Approach
On the flaming hoof rode the vorpal steed,
Out of the sapphire region tween the stars,
Past Sol’s slumb’rous giants, to scythe at speed
Thro the rocky ring, yon roseate Mars;
Full into view
Appear’d a peopl’d world,
What pearl of green & blue, where whisp‐white cloud‐swirls
curl’d.
Godhead senses his approaching
From the Aesir of Asgard,
To Allahʹs temples glimmering,
& Joveʹs spacious milliard ‐
Sad‐faced inside a floral ring
Mab though it all ill‐starrʹd,
ʺWe must discover an enclave serene,
For life is changing,ʺ sighʹd the Faerie Queen.
Above all this our Dadghabbi
Approaches, by degrees
Planetary menagerie
Of oceans, peaks & trees,
Neath mega‐lightning dancing on the tips of shipless seas.
Earth
The Visitor
Tho Balrog shaken off that fierce pursuit,
His Grey Tepig still bleeding from the chase,
But ever capable, of paths astute,
He steers his steed to this resource of space;
Their course complete
With such a shrieking sound
Plunge thro white‐glowing heat toward the growing ground.
Wings shredded so they could not steer,
Talon‐slash trailing crimson,
All thro the scorching stratosphere
Fell the vampyre stallion,
No wince, no flinch, nor cry of fear,
Wreathed that vast collision ‐
Marsh forests fly & land in piny piles
The shatterʹd tundra of a hundred miles.
All thro primeval Tunguska
Would devastation flood,
At the crater’s smoking centre
No beast of Eden stood,
Hail alien! bulbous, bewing’d, fangs thirsting manling blood.
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