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Monsters
Black Charger
cruises down the highway.
Monster
punishing his memory
of every lucid sunset
and measured footsteps
to somebody’s bones.
Muffled thud
paranoid the body stirs in the trunk.
Eyes reflect in rear view
bleeding nightmares of the departing
headlights of sin city’s forsaken.
He recounts final passage
wire tensioned
skin splits
single line of red
cutting short last breath
weeping from its neck…
Body stirs again
un-dead meat.
Monster
heavy vehicle
diesel heart
tar choked lungs
chicken lights careering down the highway.
Mesmerized eyes track blurred lines
rain pelting, blistering overlays on bitumen
smothered in a quicksilver overflow
road train verging catastrophe
aquaplane…
Monster
night stalker
hell’s angel
steaming in the rain.
The trunk yawns
peering warily into the open casket
viewing the tethered un-dead.
Arm stretched
point blank
crack!
Simultaneous
unstoppable forces
sliding along destiny’s string.
Storming lance
strikes hard shoulder
driving deep into the monster
and his black steed.
Obliterating power
tearing flesh
grinding sparks, twisted flames
smoldering steel
quenched in rain.
Silent carnage
the enigma awaiting
illumination
to find a killer, the slain
and a monstrous legacy.
Untidy doings
driven
to
the
perfect kill.
Published 8th Jul 2013
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Anonymous
- Edited 14th Nov 2018 6:35pm
8th Jul 2013 4:49pm
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8th Jul 2013 4:58pm
Hey, Magdalena. I really appreciate your feedback. I'm going to put this poem to spoken word video, so the heart beat you imagined is a great idea. Thanks heaps!!!
8th Jul 2013 5:04pm
8th Jul 2013 5:56pm
9th Jul 2013 4:14am
There's something about those times when one's cruising down a highway late at night or the wee morning hours that evokes serenity or darkness ...
... There are great lines here that stir and echo the latter; I've seen a lot of roads in my travels and this ink made me think of those dark nights and dark moments ...
... LSP
... There are great lines here that stir and echo the latter; I've seen a lot of roads in my travels and this ink made me think of those dark nights and dark moments ...
... LSP
I'm a bit of a highway man myself and I love to drive. I actually write a lot of my poems at the wheel, because it's just pure, uninterrupted thinking.
This poem was 6 months in the making of close calls, hell bent truck drivers, driving in torrential rain and through floods... oh, and there have been a fair share of serial killers that rome the highways in this country and I'm sure many more.
Thanks for reading LSP
This poem was 6 months in the making of close calls, hell bent truck drivers, driving in torrential rain and through floods... oh, and there have been a fair share of serial killers that rome the highways in this country and I'm sure many more.
Thanks for reading LSP
Anonymous
- Edited 16th May 2018 1:40pm
10th Jul 2013 2:54am
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10th Jul 2013 2:43pm
15th Oct 2013 1:58pm
Great work on the vid! Hadn't seen this poem of yours, either...
Chilling... the staccato lines suit the topic well.
Chilling... the staccato lines suit the topic well.
15th Oct 2013 2:47pm
I'm so stoked you like the vid (and the staccato), this poem has been screaming for it since I wrote it.
It was fun filming it too. I struggled to keep the camera on the dash around the bends. I lost it a couple of times. :)
Thanks for checking it out and for your great comments, Atakti.
It was fun filming it too. I struggled to keep the camera on the dash around the bends. I lost it a couple of times. :)
Thanks for checking it out and for your great comments, Atakti.
Anonymous
- Edited 16th May 2018 11:39am
15th Oct 2013 9:54pm
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15th Oct 2013 10:12pm
Anonymous
- Edited 15th Feb 2019 4:35pm
15th Oct 2013 11:07pm
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16th Oct 2013 3:05pm
Vee, sounds like you like this heaps.
Thank you so much taking the time to check out my art. I put a lot thought and time into it, so it's rewarding enough if I just got one great comment. :)
Thank you so much taking the time to check out my art. I put a lot thought and time into it, so it's rewarding enough if I just got one great comment. :)