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brian madden
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since 2000-05-06
Posts 4374
ireland

0 posted 2000-06-13 05:39 PM


Pavement stones lead up to the charnel house.
(Inside: Insects spill out of a numb mind.)
I stretched my hands to the infinite skies
but now I must enter
(Inside:                                    ).
Down the corridors of steel,
reflecting a centuries atrocity,
to the darkening centre of The Hive;
a haven of our immortality
where the withering vessels
of God’s children are given way as hosts.
“ Life after Death. You shall have
it will come forth from inside.”
(Inside: Eggs spawn larva,
Locusts sing the lullabies to the new born.
Death’s horsemen trumpet the Day of Revelations,
Welcome The Lord of the Flies).

The prostitute embraces her flock \ her children.
On stroke of lust she blinds
all with her clipped wings.
REVELATION 9.4: they remain passive
only creating not destroying.
The stench is unbearable,
We when born have it trust upon us
and are told to bask in its glory
until we return to the origin: The Charnel Hive.
(Inside: It writhes churning a sickness to feed us.
Burned upon us we bear its image.
In death we join The Hive:
our Promised Land attained).

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"Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time".

Baltimore Grotto

"To be nobody-but-yourself-in a world which is doing its best night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."

E.E Cummings.

"Art is a lie which makes us realise the truth." Pablo Picasso

"You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one". Edward Keating



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Isis
Member Ascendant
since 1999-09-06
Posts 6296
Sunny Queensland
1 posted 2000-06-13 08:06 PM


Wow Brian!  To me this is a dark cross between the 'Alien' hives, killer bees, and God's judgement day!!!!   Awesome stuff here hon.  Scary too!!  LOL  Great work  

 I'll tell you this...... No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.....
~Isis~
(Goddess - Sovereign of the Spirit)



lotharingia
Senior Member
since 2000-06-04
Posts 897
saarbruecken, Germany
2 posted 2000-06-14 03:57 AM


my words, really scary. Hell here now and hell forever more. shudder ...

 Lotharingia
"For God's sake, he's a poet. Poets are meant to feel miserable. Otherwise, what the hell are they here for? What are they going to write about?"
Tom Holland


SpitFire
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since 2000-04-19
Posts 2396

3 posted 2000-06-14 11:44 AM


~Eeekkk,....Brian, your writing seems to be getting deeper and darker as the days go by.  This is freaky as hell...(can I say that)? hehe.  So, so well written, your descriptions and tale.  Thank you kindly for the peek inside your head. Hhhm,,,..very interested here. hehe. *Peace.
brian madden
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since 2000-05-06
Posts 4374
ireland
4 posted 2000-06-14 04:10 PM


Isis, I loved "Aliens" but the poem arose from some warped thought I had about dead bodies in a building with flies laying eyes and how that could be seen life after death, that we could just be hosts. Grim thoughts I know. thanks for your wonderful reply.

lotharingia, sorry if I scared you but there is more where that came from. at least you don't have to live with my thoughts LOL
thanks for your wonderful response

Spitfire, It is an old poem 3 years old at least when I wrote pretty grim stuff. Thanks for your wonderful reply.

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"Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time".

Baltimore Grotto

"To be nobody-but-yourself-in a world which is doing its best night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."

E.E Cummings.

"Art is a lie which makes us realise the truth." Pablo Picasso

"You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one". Edward Keating



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Irish Rose
Member Patricius
since 2000-04-06
Posts 10263

5 posted 2000-06-14 09:35 PM


this was so dark!!!!!!
and descriptive!!!

 Kathleen

"How do I love thee? Let
me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace." Elizabeth Barrett Browning



Joel the wolf
Senior Member
since 2000-04-06
Posts 1333
Angels Camp
6 posted 2000-06-18 03:30 PM


I started hunting down some I missed. God this is deliciously dark,
I also thought it was a throw back from aliens, but I looked at your response.
Anyway this is so great I had to bring it up again. and give some of the new poets a chance to see it.

Joel.

I howl a mournful song, that echos within my chambered heart, for all to read? nay for all to feel.

fractal007
Senior Member
since 2000-06-01
Posts 1958

7 posted 2000-06-18 03:45 PM


Great imagery!  This painted a wonderful picture of technology gone awry and the end of the world.
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