Friday 26 August 2022

By Friars Well

 


It's a nowhere place, where you'll never be
Or even contemplate to find, or ever see
It's just a field, by a hamlet, by Friars Well
A moment in time, under the summer's spell

Maybe it's one last chance, before the ploughs
For me to leisurely cross, for this track allows
So feet fall firmly, on stubble and sun baked mud
Traversing to the other side, from where I stood

And when I'm there, yonder, I won't look back
As the way's ahead and there's no time, to slack
For it's a nowhere place, it's just an empty field
Where you'll never be, for in the past, it's sealed





Tuesday 23 August 2022

Lord Of Dung

 


Be-el.Be-el-ze.Be-el-ze-bub.Beelzzzebub.BeHellzebub.Beelzebub

Thrumming, humming, blackening skies
Rejoice! Rejoice! The Lord of Flies

Be-el.Be-el-ze.Be-el-ze-bub.Beelzzzebub.BeHellzebub.Beelzebub

A fixer for fear, with wrath he'll smite
Torturing lost souls, for pleasure and spite

Be-el.Be-el-ze.Be-el-ze-bub.Beelzzzebub.BeHellzebub.Beelzebub

King of chaos, rouser of, the direst, doubt
Pestilence enabler, purveyor of drought

Be-el.Be-el-ze.Be-el-ze-bub.Beelzzzebub.BeHellzebub.Beelzebub

He'll raise Hell's fires, for the world to warm
Plague with locusts, for him, they'll swarm

Be-el.Be-el-ze.Be-el-ze-bub.Beelzzzebub.BeHellzebub.Beelzebub

Scribed from minds, but naught was said
If you've met him, you're mad, or dead

Be-el.Be-el-ze.Be-el-ze-bub.Beelzzzebub.BeHellzebub.Beelzebub

Writhing corpses, through wringers wrung
He'll feed the maggots, the Lord of Dung

Be-el.Be-el-ze.Be-el-ze-bub.Beelzzzebub.BeHellzebub.Beelzebub

Jezebel and Ahab, spawned, Ahaziah
He died for the word, of a false messiah

Baal-Zebub
Baalzebub
Beelzebub

Saturday 20 August 2022

Cataclysmic Kaleidoscope

 


Look up, look high! Behold a sight of wonder
The panoply, of the firmament, is torn asunder
Heaven's incinerating, for the ether's, burning
And Eden's razed, but the world's still turning

Wrecked, upon magma rocks, in the sea of fire
Paradise has finally been lost, to a molten mire
The end's past nigh, but the very end's bespoke
As the air becomes, a cataclysmic kaleidoscope

Somewhere, shielded, against the infernos rage
Apocalypse enablers, survey their technophage
For it's only the living skin, that will drip like wax
As the nefarious AI delivers, the final fatal hacks

Look down, not high! And behold what lies below
Look beyond the precipice, of a searing lava flow
For Hell's, re-creation, is always forged, in flames
In a cataclysmic kaleidoscope, of self aware aims

Friday 12 August 2022

Death's Inner Circle

 


A sigh of wind, gently caresses, the creaking rope
Unfocused glassy, lifeless eyes, are bereft of hope
There's a frozen snarl, on rigid lips, bloated purple
On the waxen countenance, of death's inner circle

It was, or maybe not, a final act to escape despair
To be somewhere else, but there's someone there
For a shadow, is stretching, under the old oak tree
Or mayhap, it's a deception, mortal eyes can't see

For there's nothing here, except for crumbling bark
Like desiccated bones, it's lost, in the deepest dark
It's where the flesh will rot and the blood will curdle
Only a shadow survives here, in death's inner circle

Naught is living here, save what feeds 'neath hemp
And unbeing here, even the hell of life, might tempt
But like distant memories, it's only time, that warps
Within recurring nightmares, of the hanging corpse

Wednesday 10 August 2022

Spare Parts

 


The reaper pondered, with ireful thoughts he toyed
And if he was capable of emotion, he'd be annoyed
For the new world around him, was not man made
Here there was no fear, of death, by his razor blade

He imagined scribed words, with his third eye blind
And what he imagined, was in his murmuring mind
'I cannot harvest those, bereft of souls and hearts...
...You're not mine to reap, for you have spare parts'

And he gazed upon their hives and uniformed guise
Knowing that mortality, would ne'er be their demise
For there's no place in Hell, for the mechanical man
And Heaven's, an intelligent creation, of an AI sham

He'd once wreaked havoc, but now he chose to shun
For he is as dead, as humanity and his culling's done
And although the reaper, ruminated, it was all in vain
As he went back to Hell, from where the robots reign