Agaliarept's in His Dreams & Witches of Transylvania! (two poems)

Agaliarept’s in His Dreams


Deep dreams he saw him in his sleep:
And how his charmful face was changed!
He told me, “I tried to keep the faith?”
He looked, quite freighted, and estranged.

Upon his wake, a twofold delight:
Fear was gone; whereupon there came
Agaliarept’s impending name:
Waiting to break back in his dreams…


No: 2551 (1-15-2009)



Witches of Transylvania!

And so it was, there came four court-women witches
Their task to be: to judge the wickedness of men,
Whom they confessed, were many in the land of Transylvania…!
(in those far-off wondrous days).

First they tried the Duke, and he was:
“Judged to be hung on a tree—”
Then there came the constable,
And they judged him the same:
A traitor to his country!

And the King for being unfaithful—
And unmoral to his subjects and his queen!
And the Marquise, for un-pure thoughts,
And for his lack of dignity!

There was not much pondering, ere, nor did
The Witches flinch, but cast upon the land a curse,
That there would always be, in Transylvania,
A vampire prince; and then they left.


No: 2552 (1-15-2009)