a poem in my pocket

 Linking to:  D’verse Poets Modern Mythologies

 My sons carved these pumpkins, which they dubbed 

“Titan the Spartan” and “Halwarg, the Great Wolf”

(a triolet)

A Spartan helmet’s bravely plumed and always sharp his blade;

his courage in the face of death lives on in legends bold.

To track and kill a savage wolf would prove the man is made!

A Spartan helmet’s bravely plumed and always sharp his blade.

Thermopylae, where Persian wolves prevailed on Greeks betrayed;

in mountain pass spilled Spartan blood, war’s wind was howling cold.

A Spartan helmet’s bravely plumed and always sharp his blade,

his courage in the face of death lives on in legends bold!