Axis & Allies - damowords

The Golden Stag
Despite his chief advisor full of fear
Lord Ravana sworn his own vengeance
Transforms Maricha to a little deer
So beautiful in tender innocence;
Its lovely face
By raptured Sita seen,
Forcing Rama give chase & satisfy his queen.
Now aiding cries of false distress
Flies demon‐trick’d Lakshana,
Leaving lovely Sita helpless
To the wrath of Ravana
Who comes to her in hermit dress
Feigning humble manner,
That with a laugh is thrown off with his guise,
Ten heads are rais’d burning with blazing eyes.
By mule‐drawn golden chariot
Them off to Lanka flew,
Tho Sita sweats she does not fret
Down to a summit threw,
Her jewels… hoping mountain monkeys would know what to
do.
Karnataka
Hanuman
After five weeks of searching Rama flopp’d
Exhausted, by Sugriva, monkey king,
Who shows him the necklace his Sita dropp’d
& promised to help him in her finding;
Thus monkeys all
Across the world divide
From Mandalay to Gaul to find Prince Rama’s bride.
Soon Hanuman, of Monkeys great,
Whose name was writ in water,
Learns of the grievous Lankan fate
Of King Janaka’s daughter,
& hoping he was not to late,
Leaping as he sought her,
Bounded the Ocean to Ravana’s isle –
A single leap sheer vaulting mile‐on‐mile.
Once landed he transforms feline,
Soon Sita came in view,
O weary whine, O pining pine,
Til faith she does renew,
Sweet news from this whispering cat, “Rama shall recue you!”
Asoka Park