The Viking

I did a poem called Fun With Words and it ended up being a great exercise in creating fodder for future works. The poem below came out of this exercise and you may recognize some of the language from that poem. I hope you enjoy this violent little poem!

The Viking

Drunken rube! Pungent! Vociferous! Animal,

smacking lips on bone and sucking meat , celebrating,

with an orgy of lust and violence, the massacre of men and children,

the raping of women, the burning of villages, the plundering of

chickens and cattle! You stabbed the North Sea and

with frozen beard and war ravaged face, stomped the shore and

began the slaughter with bloodlust, which did not culminate

until every carnal instinct had been satiated and now

teeming with violence and malice, blood on your face and fur,

you eat their chickens.

All Rights Reserved. Copyright Justin W. Price November 9th, 2011

Thanks for reading.

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