Some Poetry and History to Lighten Up Your Weekend

As we promised, every month we will be posting a poem on the blog for your to read. This month is our history month, and in honor of some famous historical events we have a hisotircal poem. Enjoy this poem by Brandon Berman, published poet in our first issue. Here is a satire on King Louis XVI.


For the People I Have Lived
                                                        By Brandon Berman 


The blade looms above his head
from the sunset's rays stained in red
The sound of birds fluttering about in the sky
not a cloud up in the heavens
what a beautiful day for King Louis to die!

The republic is his master
the French people want him dead
their cries for him to die faster
swim like fishes in his head

Oh, how the people he protected
now call for his demise
what had he ever done to be selected
to die in wake of the republic's rise

He had given them his army
he had given them his bread
he had fed them and watered them
like a flower in a garden bed

Yet all that care and nurture was for naught
for on the guillotine he was to end
and there his body was to rot
until the second coming heaven send

And as they march him up the creaking steps
to the guillotine’s waiting room
they are his last footsteps
and they carry him to his doom

They place his head against the rough wooden stoackade
His neck exposed to the glittering blade
for a king to die in this dark way is not right
after serving his people with all of his might
Then a single thought engrosses him as the blade nears his neck:

"Populus enim vixi: for the people I have lived"

New Sybmol #1

Above you will find the possibly new symbol of Poetica Victorian. We have become fed up with our old symbol and are looking for something new. So over the next few weeks we will be posting our choices of new symbols on the blog. Then, after all the symbol choices have been posted, we will have a poll on the website and here on the blog for you to decide the new symbol.

This is the first symbol out of the new choices. It features our former crest (the simple letters PV standing for our name) surrounded by two olive branches topped with a victorian era crown. Below this symbol is the name of our magazine written in a cursive font.

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This offer lasts until July 20, 2011 so hurry up and tell everyone you know about us. For everyone you tell about us (only applies to the e-mail scenario) you will be entered one time. The more people you tell about us, the more you are entered, and the higher the chances of you winning.

Head to this link and enter the e-mails of everyone you want to tell about us and we will contact them with more information, and you will be entered for a chance to win:  Tell Everyone About Us...