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Nightmares of a Yellow King

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Summary

Nightmares of a Yellow King is a stolen line poem I wrote several years ago now while still in college. The purpose, for those unaware, of a stolen line poem is to take a line from a popular poem (In this case the opening line of "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost) and spin that line off into your own original poem. I was at the time reading The King In Yellow by Robert W. Chambers and that work, along with the titular Yellow King's later usage by Lovecraft and other cosmic horror aficionados no doubt helped shape my inspiration in writing this poem. I present "Nightmares of a Yellow King" to you, the people of the internet, as it was originally published in my college's online literary arts magazine, Aurora, back in the fall of 2015.

Status
Complete
Chapters
1
Rating
n/a
Age Rating
13+

Nightmares of a Yellow King

Two roads diverge in a yellow wood,

Each path hideous, foreboding, and flanked by formations

of trees with twisted limbs and gnarled roots.

The whirling cries of whippoorwills form a cacophony throughout the scene.

Down both paths, processions of sullen pilgrims parade toward


A lost and forgotten shore. Its

crashing fetid waters undulating

beneath black stared, and strange moon’d skies.

From this loathsome visage a distant,

cyclopean tower rises from the ocean

its odious walls built of some unknown ebon stone.


Dull groaning grows in the pilgrim’s throats into

a blasphemous gibbering of abhorrent prayers.

Yet they sound strikingly familiar, like the praising to a benevolent god.


From the top of that sinful spire

a profane luminescence shines,

like the radiant light of God,

yet

lacking all warmth, life, and love.


Hither comes their aberrant King,

swaddled in pallid tawny robes.

The lord of Carcosa returns,

to lead his hordes

and usher forth an age of glorious

Insanity!

Two roads diverged in what was once a yellow wood,

The paths bleached, and covered with ash and

the bent, chared corpses of trees.

The whippoorwills cry no more,

as the hordes of the Yellow King march through.

Each legion heralds the doom of the dominion of man.

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