Oasis Of Blood

The evening sky was a burning flame as he rode his camel
Every night he did the same as dreams drifted through his memory
and the thirst was always there, a thirst no water could tame

Visions of a Pharaoh wandering the sands of Egypt
Alexandria, ah Alexandria and a beautiful Queen who wasn’t so innocent
The hot winds of the night whisper her name Cleopatra…Cleopatra
Somewhere in time two Roman men hear and look about, searching….
Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony
Visions of a Pharaoh haunted his tortured mind

I need blood to ease this fever of my brain
I have been alive too long, centuries come and go but only one stays in my mind
The time that I was born and lived, the time of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt

The camel strode across the sandy landscape
The pyramids rose up dark against the red evening sky
Everything around him burned red….He must feed and feed now
He was too starved, his mind like molten crimson, he needed blood
and only human blood, fresh from the vein, would do

Even in these modern times, the early 20th century there was plenty of blood in Egypt
Plenty of the English walking the streets of Cairo
The lure and money from finding ancient treasures drew them here in droves
Stealing the soul of Egypt didn’t bother the English one little bit
But he didn’t really care one way or the other about these thefts
He wasn’t human anymore, that condition ended for him centuries ago

Now he was a blood hungry demon on the hunt once again
He was a blood thirsty monster picking out his human meal to suck dry
There’d soon be another dried human husk for the always present English to discover
He loved to witness the fear that these discovers put in these aliens to Egypt
The fearful whispered talk of killer mummies stalking the night streets amused him

He was one of many vampires of Egypt always seeking the crimson flood
and this exotic place where so many tasty foreigners flocked to
helped create this fabulous location, this ever flowing oasis of blood

 

Reviews

[Sheila Kline]

OMG Tina......................this is AWESOME! Your use of historical names such as Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, etc. makes it gripping, and absolutely one of your best writes!
This goes in my favorite file! The concept of an ever flowing oasis of blood is one that shall drip off the pages of poetry for many a day!! I can just imagine this being read aloud!....chilling, absolutely chilling!

[Black Cat Fever]

Impressive. Very heated and exotic. Like the breath of history in this. A most enjoyable vampire poem.

[R J Askew]

My, this is a strong and unusual write, very original. Though as an Englishman, gulp, slightly uncomfortable, too! The notion of an oasis of blood is very clever as it reverses the cliched idea of an oasis being a place of calm, milk and honey etc. The obsession of the thirsty one runs through every verse of the poem. I esp like the final lines and the flood/blood ending. My favourite dabs are 'a thirst now water wld tame' and 'crismson flood'.

[Star Wolf]

I love this!This is one awesome vampire poem! Different than most that I've read on this site.

[Wolf's Dark Song]

Wow, this is fantastic. It has a surreal feel to it yet it is strongly grounded in history. This is one amazing vampire poem!