Axis & Allies - damowords

Fall of Greece
The Asian hordes, crown’d Selin at their head,
Attack Turkey to claim the salt‐sea ports,
Now sprinkling hare’s blood on their barley‐bread
They one‐by‐one lay low the Grecian forts;
A toxic cloud
Of bio‐chemicals
Dissolves each martial crowd soon clapt in manacles.
Into fabl’d Phoenician seas
Pour forty hordes of Asia,
Seizing the lands of Hercules
& all its poesia
From deep, squid‐crowded Cyclades
To Cephalonia,
Advance the sins of Selin as a flood,
Th’Aegean, th’Adriatic fill with blood.
CHYREN triumph’d thro Macedon,
Lord of a ten‐mile line,
To thank his son, the Parthenon
A perfect place to dine,
“Well done my daughter’s husband, now Italy must be mine!”
Athens
Fall of Italy
All in a blazing flash of bravado
Italy’s defences dissipated
Selin seizes Syracuse, Salerno,
Th’Appeninnes entirely subjugated;
His legions pour
In song along the ways
Where fear was never more nor darker were the days.
Selin enters the streets of Rome
Collossal & triumphant
Lies prostrate at Saint Peter’s tomb,
Some new Papal incumbent,
Declares the babe of Mary’s womb,
Sweet Jesus, Heaven‐sent,
Who is, once more, enthroned in Italy ‐
Strange renaissance of Christianity!
This new Licinius Crassus
Soul‐power emanates,
Builds chiasas for fresh crosses,
Puts down the petty states,
Uniting all Ausonia below the Alpine gates.
Rome