Bathsheba by Cyndi MacMillan

Bathsheba, by Jean Leon Gerome, 1899.

Bathsheba

Revelations illume curves --
those fatal loins glow

and breasts forgive
every deception.

Hips eclipse Heaven
as flesh begs for conspiracy.

Ungodly plots
burn between her thighs

and prophesy groans
as the king bows to lust,

seeding perfect wisdom
from a stained throne.

Cyndi MacMillan

This poem was written as part of the ekphrastic 20 Poem Challenge.

Cyndi MacMillan poetry has recently appeared in Grain Magazine and the Fieldstone Review.  Her verse, short fiction and novel-in-progress resentfully compete for her attention.  She lives in New Hamburg, Ontario, home to North America’s largest working water wheel. Coffee and family allow ideas to percolate.