Axis & Allies - damowords

Rape of Rhea
Amulius usurps Numitorʹs throne
Murders his nephew very clandestine
Then to prevent avengers being born,
Shuts up his niece to serve the vestal wine;
The Gods angry!
Full KARMA to restore,
To this ‘long white city’ they send a paramour,
Who creeps within fair Rheaʹs room
Upon soft‐feather’d sandals,
A shade seducing turpid gloom
With silks & censorʹd candles,
Its vibrant seed invades her womb
Like the warring Vandals,
She moan’d with must & murmuring divine
Tasted nirvana arching back her spine.
The ghost fled from the ravishing
For her a tragic tayle
Days fluttering from fall to spring
Toward her pregnant grail
Where she shall be Philomele & then the nightingale.
Alba Longa
Romulus & Remus
Twin babes are born, raging Amulius,
Murders fair Rhea, orders their demise,
Left to die on the Tiber so helpless,
A she‐wolf hears their tender, anxious cries;
Soft‐suckled there
Til some pure‐eyed shepherd
Brings twin babes in his care… Quirini think them dead.
Faustalus raised them wise & couth
Hiding them from destiny
Time drew them unto manly youth
& back into their city
Where Numitor could see the truth
Hugs them happily;
His gransons’ plan some brave pincer attack ‐
Soon pinning wicked uncle to his back.
KARMA descends to tend the crime
Dressʹd in her saffron gown
“For time cures time!” From scarlet slime
They raise the silver crown
& place it on their grandfather before a shell‐shocked town.
Alba Longa