Showing posts with label Apocalypse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Apocalypse. Show all posts

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Of Consequence...

Photograph by Terry at http://mobiusfaith.wordpress.com






In a land draped in smoke
We find a people caressed by fear
Where only the undead
Are unspoken for.  (APOCALYPTIC SNOWFALL)

SMART BOMBS BUILD BETTER ASHES

In a world consumed by hate
We see a realm that doubts their faith
Where the only beliefs able to heal
Are dusted, dead, or concealed. (NUCLEAR WINTER)

SMART BOMBS BUILD BETTER ASHES

In a society applauding theft and greed
We shun the children who’ve yet to feed
Pushing back the masks, only for the time it takes
To devour what purity’s left to rake. (INHERITANCE)

SMART BOMBS BUILD BETTER ASHES

Behind hidden doors, Hope’s salvation weeps
As daily they do watch…monsters, unwrought and free
For outside’s where the abhorred stray at night
Leaving but the day to retrieve those released from misery 
(MUTATION)
SMART BOMBS BUILD BETTER ASHES

When the stench renews
Pulses must grow numb…

As darkness covets light
Vision alters sight…

No matter what you hear
That sound you cannot clear

Despite your urge to feed
There’s no taste left to comfort thee

For when the ravagers appear
Muted be thy cries
Lest beckon upon all
The infection summoned by your call.  (THE END)
Smart Bombs Only Destroy
The smartest bomb is the one NEVER made…

Over at D'Verse, Claudia brought forth a photo prompt. Being a moderator at D'Verse, I, like the others, had a chance to get ahead start tonight, (which I obviously took full advantage of lol). 

 Well, to be perfectly honest, I saw that it was a photo prompt and while those can be quite fun sometimes, I just didn't think I was in a mood to roll something out this way.  So, I did a bit of reading, napped a bit and then hopped on the computer about two hours ago.  

I wrote a couple of things, but I've been rather stagnant lately, only able to knock out some haiku.  So I went into my bag of tricks, poems previously written and noticed I only had one in there, which I had planned on using with some art I did for another blog.  So, I popped in to D'verse, to check out the post and the photos for Poetics.  And there it was that I saw some really impressive photographs. 

Well, I have to say this apocalyptic verse sort of just came to being right then and there.  So, long story short, it's kind of funny how things work out isn't it?  There I was, not feeling like working from a photo at all, even knowing that was suffering a bit of poetic paralysis, and needed a jolt of some sort.  Yet, I was being stubborn I guess, thinking that only I could get myself out of the slump or whatever it is when, lo and behold,not even five minutes elapsed over at the site when bang, the full premise of a poem accosted me in a most pleasant way.  Funny how things work sometimes.  

I look forward to reading your pieces.  These are some very unique photos, that should really offer a wide many angles for poetic approach.  So head on over, check out Terry's photography and check out all the responses linked up on D'verse.  Maybe you'll find yourself quickly impelled to write like I was, please share it if you are, I for one would love to read it.  Then, how about swinging by Terry's site to check out all the neat pieces he's created there.  Definitely a lot of unique material, he has a different way of looking at the world, which makes for some really interesting shots.

Monday, July 25, 2011

Apocalyptic Son


On a Sunday lacking sun, a son traverses empty roads, upon a mission of repose.  Carousing placated lots and fields, in search for a compass clear, yet in doing so, a presence felt he does become.

Escaping the cloudy dream ennui would love you to believe.  Shaping the shaded particularity of particulates within, a hazel-greenish glimmering grin. 

Foraging the aftermath, calculating inflated costs at every turn, shrugging shoulders up and out, as pariah’s doubt fills the bloated sensory. 

Pits and pots and cracks amiss, leveling locations meant for bliss.  Candor amassing sand and grime, with each wheel turn, more mud it finds.

The evening prior was Saturn’s day and in his images ringing scattered moons amongst.  A meteoric rise from the south, launching pads whizzed and banged, dramatic flash-mobs fidgeting smog, domesticating horrifying promissory notes of deceit, as a brutal vocabulary was spun by nature’s pen, tipped and felt.

And now they call for an encore.  And now they take a bow.  Before the crowded masses huddled in scowl.  Emasculating herculean humanity, soft skinned souls arrested in surprise, to the drop-dead beats of ballast heard. 

Condensation’s frigid fate relaxes in sheaths and grates, ingratiated by the letters youthful hoarders use to test their trade.  Standards of privacy lay isolated amidst open fields, spackled with dirt and amber clay.  Bashful barterers far from their serene, prioritize internal valuations between shackles and shades.  Lonely crustacean, parched and dry, would relish but one spigot to try, for spine to fluidly bend again. 

On a Sunday lacking sun, a son peruses the wreckage that’s been done.  Furious and ferocious symbols scatter empty palettes, which once were cluttered thick, seeking another to join, in this regretful trek, as eyes meet foreign Griffins talons descend, sinking into your familiar streets.

Upper torso and head, with wings the eagle’s image flies.
Legs and trunk bronzed and bulked, lionized, they tout branches, alms, kalamata shapes in hand.  Yet the survivors only hear unsympathetic roars of rage from the kingdom close, for so few there are left to save.
Drifting through the feeble praise, from distant soldiers left unscathed, the tautological preys upon.  The man is shaking his head.

The son shines his beams, high yet with dusted distractions sparsely dancing through the wavering rays, aiding reddened, sleepless eyes with their quivering light divine. 

He’s praying there’ll be others, draped about, amongst, by the tapestry of the night that’s yet to come. 

The silence befits the wanderer.  There aren’t any distractions, yet there is nothing but distraction.  The mind is wondering where the departed flesh has gone.

The questions that mount, he cares not repeat.  Answers scuffle briskly at the stamping of their ne’er-ending feet.  Needless admonition moving left to right then right to left, traversing conversations that were left unsaid.  Smoking barrels commissioned for purposes of health and recreation, appear to be the solution, appear to be alive, yet at this point, he begs but ask the question:

Is this just another mirage built upon deception or is there hope beyond these tracks?