National Poetry Month Day 19: The Lizard King #NaPoWriMo

Today's poem (on this Day 19 of National Poetry Month) is less of an original work, than a reworking on an older poem (first published in my book Tears of Poetry). I hope you enjoy this second take on Jim Morrison...

The Lizard King

Dark Rider of the Storm.

nighthawk above the streetlights

The poet with a voice,

husky and sensual.

Bleeding that lingering cadence

across the stratosphere

Showman, Ringmaster

to the screaming crowd.

Bring them into mind evolution

Revolution

You struck the fuse,

dictates of the muse,

and traversed the pyre

of your soul.

© A. F. Stewart 2015 All Rights Reserved 

Original version published in Tears of Poetry

© A. F. Stewart 2007 All Rights Reserved