BEHOLD.....A BLACK HORSE

 

Be

What you will be

Why

Matters not

Love

Simply love

Fascination

Alms indeed

Hate

Just doesn’t fit

Looming mass

Bewildered

Growing ever weary

Fear

Redefined

Bleeding world

In sync

My bleeding heart

Reflexive disdain

Granite thoughts

Goofy foot gait

Fleet narcissism

Chaucer’s Chanticleer

Fallen heroes ode

Man dictates his doom

The dollar falls

Nervous smiles

Implosion of the ages

Distasteful exit

Hastily arranged

Austrian atrocities

Burmese cyclone horror

Famine

Gnawing pangs

Behold a black horse

 

 

© Bill Grimes Jr. 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

4Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make men slay each other. To him was given a large sword.

 5When the Lamb opened the third seal; I heard the third living creature say, "Come!" I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. 6Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, "A quart^[a] of wheat for a day's wages,^[b] and three quarts of barley for a day's wages,^[c] and do not damage the oil and the wine!"

Footnotes:

1. Revelation 6:6 Greek a choinix (probably about a liter)
2. Revelation 6:6 Greek a denarius
3. Revelation 6:6 Greek a denarius

 

Revelation 6:4-6 (New International Version)

New International Version (NIV)

Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society

 

 

 

 

 

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(1380) CANTERBURY TALES

THE NUN'S PRIEST'S TALE

By Geoffrey Chaucer

THE NUN'S PRIEST'S TALE

OF THE C**K AND HEN, CHANTICLEER

AND PERTELOTE

 

 

Reviews

[Legion]

An interesting piece I find. But the black horse has been running for years through all ages. We all seem to see doom and gloom in our own age, but others saw it before us in their own. Those that follow will as well. Good poem though and I like the flow of it.