Battle of Time



Monday
Moon day
Just passing through

Tuesday
Winged gods
They swoop on you

Wednesday
Woden’s day
Trade the love you knew

Thursday
Thor’s thunder
It may rain on you

Friday
Freya’s day
Week of bondage through

Saturday
Oh Saturn day
Don’t let it grow on you

For Sunday
Sun day
It will come quite soon

Shining Through On

The day of the moon
Arrives yet again
A battle with
Time
A battle
Tyr wins
Odin
The father
Of gods some unknown
Stands before Thor
Wild he roams
Freya
His lover
Never his home
Sun sets
on this Love
Until Khronu’s dethroned
Sun never vanquished
The day now his own
Sets in the distant
Giving light to first moon

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Submitted by Keithdalankford on November 11, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 649
Words 129
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 1, 21

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