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Re: Poetry collection
« Reply #1500 on: June 01, 2020, 12:02:27 AM »
Pg 283

If All Else Fails, Shoot All The Tails

Extreme times call for fast execution.
Thankfully, they will not be bullet-proof.
Let the shots ring out, firing solution,
In the face of the taunting, slurping wolf.

Leading by example, Sigrun commanding,
Blasting a barrage of bullets propelled.
Go get all of them! Leave no tail standing!
Get your feet on the ground and give 'em hell!

Fire your guns, don't let any get away!
Or they'll just come back to hunt us later!
Seek and destroy, fan out, take aim and spray.
Fingers held on the lead applicator.

In the shot-filled frenzy, triggers pumping,
A chilled eye sees, something else is coming...
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Re: Poetry collection
« Reply #1501 on: June 01, 2020, 10:18:54 PM »
Pg 284

Bad Tidings, Get To Hiding!

He says "Something else bad coming! Hiding!"
He's understood, despite his sense of tense.
To the nearest shelter, dash like lightning,
The guide pushes them to find cover hence.

"Great! I bet it's the big guy." She mutters,
Under her breath as they're forced to flee fast.
Make egress quick, before they're discovered,
Despite the bloodbath, danger hasn't passed.

While they sprint and bound for the domicile,
During his clamber his Rubik's cube dropped.
Lalli tries to retrieve but for a while,
His mage eye vision forcing him to stop.

He's had his fun, the toy's all but lost and
It's not worth it, it must be abandoned.

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I Dropped The Box (based on I Fought The Law lyrics by Sonny Curtis)

Gotta get clear, you big dumb
I dropped the box and the thing comes
I dropped the box and the thing comes
I tried to solve it and it was fun
I dropped the box and the thing comes
I dropped the box and the thing comes

I left my cubie and it feels so bad
Guess my game is done
It's the best toy that I ever had
I dropped the box and the thing comes
I dropped the box and the

Blastin' beasties with a hot gun
I dropped the box and the thing comes
I dropped the box and the thing comes
I lost my cube and I lost my fun
I dropped the box and the thing comes
I dropped the box and the thing comes

I left my cubie and it feels so bad
Guess my game is done
It's the best toy that I ever had
I dropped the box and the thing comes
I dropped the box and the thing comes

I dropped the box and the thing comes
I dropped the box and the thing comes
I dropped the box and the thing comes
I dropped the box and the thing comes
I dropped the box and the thing comes
I dropped the box and the thing comes
I dropped the box and the thing comes
I dropped the box and the

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Re: Poetry collection
« Reply #1502 on: June 04, 2020, 12:28:45 AM »
Pg 285

Hide Together, Spy Leafy Leather

In the rubble and wreck, past the beams criss-crossed,
All hands on deck, all eyes peer through the gap.
Curiosity like an albatross,
To glimpse the creature, what has them entrapped?

Focus trained eyes, vision beyond enhanced.
On distance foliage, attention kept.
Nothing escaping the sentinel's glance.
Ever gradual, the faraway crept.

Hearing it, "mooo" before it has been seen,
Surely this bovine no cause for alarm?
A cattle calling ground beef in leafy green,
A single bush taurus, a funny farm.

More noise, more din, yet more sonance drones on.
More critters therein get constantly drawn.
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Re: Poetry collection
« Reply #1503 on: June 04, 2020, 09:53:33 PM »
Adventure 2, Page 286

Gentleness is not a word of this new world.

No. Here, in these twisted tree-lined halls, the hunger that turns stomachs inside-out does not ask for a bloodless quarry. This is the order of things, the stretch and tear of fresh-dead flesh, the hunters that chase and the scavengers trailing behind.

And yet. There is something almost peaceful here, as tangled herds of long-passed wanderers graze a darker grass. Soon, as the shadowed sun dips into red-tinged dusk, nothing will remain. No twisted, twitching corpses lying strewn, no rot or foul miasma in the gentle summer air. Nothing will be left here but hoof-prints and splintered bones, to be claimed by the dirt and the damp of the rains.

This is the order of things, in the sharpness and the softness of a new world.
I write poetry sometimes.

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Re: Poetry collection
« Reply #1504 on: June 05, 2020, 03:04:42 AM »
Pg 286

Sick Meat Grazing, Vomit Raising

The whole herd emerges from the thicket,
Surveying the scene, the cadavers prone.
Nudging the discarded umbrella, the sickened,
Nearing the bodies of wolves over blown.

Nose to the gore, glass-eyed cattle sniffing,
Sanguine aroma of meat and torn bone.
Sampling a morsel, horror unliving.
Now all tearing chunks, bite, voracious drones.

Distressing grazers, unlivestock debased,
Degraded eating the spoils of the day.
Autonomous like some instinct replaced,
Scavenging corpses like mammals of prey.

Wafting through the air are the bloody notes.
Sick to the stomach, disgust to the throat.
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Re: Poetry collection
« Reply #1505 on: June 07, 2020, 11:05:05 PM »
Pg 287

Leg It Fast, Avoid Overcast

"Let's vanish." is the suggestion she put,
Hunter using her honed tactical wit.
They all flee quickly, procession on foot,
All the running's at least keeping them fit...

A safe distance gained, managed by them all.
Opening the one umbrella they saved.
Who will share the shade under the rain fall?
The Swede shouldn't be one, his one was waived!

"What have we learned?" is the question today,
Asks the rhetorical at this juncture.
Overcast makes all the beasts keen to play,
It's better to set up camp and hunker.

Fishing through his pockets, it doesn't click.
Forgetting he dropped it, something Rubik.
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Re: Poetry collection
« Reply #1506 on: June 11, 2020, 02:30:59 AM »
Pg 288

Emotionally Investing, Loss Is Testing

The missing colour cube, he recollects.
An item prized to the taciturn Finn.
Lost memories of the drop-ped object.
Total recall, picture in his chagrin.

That 'Surma' thing, Sigrun's still not compelled,
Its existence she questioned in her sense.
Has the seagull guy even beheld it?
Is he senile in warnings to dispense?

Never before has he been so engrossed,
He was emotionally invested.
So close to solving it, nearly, almost...
Even in his sleep, he's ever restless.

The Rubik block sought... the lost brick of squares...
The cube stalks his thoughts... it haunts his nightmares...

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Pg 289

Likely Alibis To Retrieve His Prize

Sigrun saying "At least the weather gods
Are trying to make up for yesterday!"
The scout heads out, back to track, on the job.
To make sure their rear is clear and okay.

He says to the Swede, back in an hour.
"Where are you going?" questions does she.
Hurrying back to the best of his power,
Checking not his aim, he told a porky!

Returned to the ruins, scene of the crime,
Loss of the object made his head muddle.
The ranger coming just at the right time.
Found his treasure, the box of puzzle.

A night of grief, restless, a detour brief.
To retrieve his precious, his face - relief!
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Re: Poetry collection
« Reply #1507 on: June 11, 2020, 11:14:27 PM »
Pg 290

To Get In Hubris, Cow Head Torsoless

He retrieves his cube, closed eyes, with a smile.
Putting his hand on the coloured knick-knack.
He opens his eyes, looks around a while-
A carcass bovine, disembowelled and hacked!

One hand on the cube, one hand on the rock.
A die-o-rama in his face, so near.
Taking a pause, in mild surprise and shock.
Gruesome details becoming ever clear.

Internal organs, like a curtain draped,
Head and skull there casually discarded.
Meat, blood and sinews - pasted and scraped.
What little remains, splattered in parting.

Something else takes his eye, what does he spot?
A sinking feeling, his stomach in knots.
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Re: Poetry collection
« Reply #1508 on: June 15, 2020, 01:46:06 AM »
Pg 291

Observing Witless, The Carving Vicious.

On the tree branches, flesh chunks do hang.
Spattered, painted, shades of deepest crimson.
Bent saplings forth where a behemoth sprang.
The cattle sliced into mass extinction.

Butchery! Slaughter! The carnage arrayed!
Portioned into neat slices and giblets.
Savage emnity directly displayed.
If only he could show what he's witnessed.

No carcass untouched, no tree unpainted.
At this grim event, what will the ranger?
The being that left, not yet acquainted.
Remnants, reminders of hidden danger.

Jaw-dropping havoc, brutality took form.
Came with the night rain, the ravaging storm.
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Re: Poetry collection
« Reply #1509 on: June 16, 2020, 12:04:36 AM »
Pg 292

Reckless As Hell, In The Crevice It Dwells

Scattered marbled bodies, in cross-sections.
Patterned in blood, in the sunlight, they shine.
A dissected ruminant collection,
Rived asunder, severed along the spine.

Smeared and stained red, skin torn, exposed ribs.
Slaying with its unnaturally sharp nails.
With speed and strength, nothing escaped its grip.
The laying shield broken, leads off the trail...

Depraved from the deepest dark crevices.
An unhallowed, inconceivable threat.
How far away is the unseen menace?
Is it close? Is escape feasible yet?

Hateful to the world. All it finds is cleft.
Accursed wings furled, it still hasn't left!

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Hold Your Spine (Based on Hold The Line By Toto)

It's all in the way that you woke me
It's all in the way you shot in the air
It's all in the way all the noises offend
It's all in the way that my madness descends
It's all in the way you shook all the quiet and the peace with your crew

Hold your spine
You won't run away this time
Woah-woah-woah
Hold your spine
You won't run away this time
Woah-woah-woah

It's all in the way you disturbed me
It's all in the way you strayed, you're mine
It's all in the way that you came back to me
It's all in the way that I'll never be free
It's all in the way you shook all the quiet and the peace with your crew

Hold your spine
You won't run away this time
Woah-woah-woah
Hold your spine
You won't run away this time
Woah-woah-woah

It's all in the way you disturbed me
It's all in the way you strayed, you're mine
It's all in the way that you came back to me
It's all in the way that I'll never be free
It's all in the way you shook all the quiet and the peace with your crew

Hold your spine
You won't run away this time
Woah-woah-woah
Hold your spine
You won't run away this time
You won't run away this time
Hold your spine
You won't run away this time
You won't run away
You won't run away this time
Hold your spine
You won't run away this time
You won't run away this time
You won't run away this time
You won't run away this time
Whoah-ooh-ooh
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Re: Poetry collection
« Reply #1510 on: June 17, 2020, 10:32:17 PM »
Pg 293

Returning From Detour, Concerning Fervour

With the carnage reckoned he takes his cue.
His treasure thus secured, into his cape.
There is not a millisecond to lose,
Pocket the cube, to make a quick escape.

Packing, checking their equipment pristine.
The kitty lay prone, the cleanser knelt.
Preening, keeping their materials clean.
Unaware of the horrors that befell.

He dashes, quicker, faster, to return.
The others have no urgency, a yawn...
Rustle, hustle, through the shrubs and the ferns..
Hurry away, before they're set upon!

Calm down, they weren't set to leave him behind!
Unconscious of his frenzied state of mind...
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Re: Poetry collection
« Reply #1511 on: June 18, 2020, 10:36:45 PM »
Pg 294

Gasp For Air, Surma's There!

Taking a moment or several ones,
Gasp and puff to catch his breath.
Until finally the single word comes,
He stutters and utters the name of death.

Looks of dismay, surprise, and suspicion.
The word Surma was not hoped to be said.
Again they must make their expedition.
Quiet and quick their pursuer to shed.

Fleeing, they run the road together,
Ere the doombringer has heard or seen them.
Leaving, loaded, making hell for leather...
To disperse utmost distance between them.

The soldiers driving, seeking to make haste.
Claws folded, biding, eager to lay waste.
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Re: Poetry collection
« Reply #1512 on: June 19, 2020, 12:04:42 AM »
Adventure 2, Page 294

The beat of your heart is a drumroll that matches
The inhale and exhale, the burn of your lungs
A thump in your chest with each raggedy breath as
You time the sharp gasps with each step that you run

The rhythm of footsteps pounds hard on the pavement
And shudders an earthquake through all of your bones
Your thighs start to ache and with each step you take it
Sends nausea rising like bile up your throat

The air that you breathe has gone sharp as it moves through
Your mouth with a dryness that sticks to your tongue
While each breath you take brings a sting and a shake to
The drum of your heartbeat but still you must run
I write poetry sometimes.

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Re: Poetry collection
« Reply #1513 on: June 20, 2020, 10:03:07 AM »
Still page 294

Faceless Preying Threat, Finger Bayonets

Digit sabres dipped
Rived and torn and ripped
Haematic splashes drip
From tentacle-like grips

Corrugated sinews
Crumpled tissues
Desiccated recluse
Biding out of view

Faceless armageddon
Arthritic weapons
Skeletal, deadened
The mere name threatens

Age-d, wretched palms
Boding, almost calm
With explosive qualms
Folded, stretch-ed, damned
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Re: Poetry collection
« Reply #1514 on: June 22, 2020, 11:03:26 PM »
Pg 295

Retaining Their Traits, Hard to Eradicate

Wolf packs a source of fear even alive.
The Illness now brings a terrifying twist.
Retaining their instincts when beastified,
Cursed to become some of the peskiest.

Stalking and killing, hunting for blood sport,
Not losing their rather bothersome traits.
Fast and quiet, a large pack in support,
Impossible to shake once they have the chase.

Keen is their sense, hard to eradicate.
When they are targets, will flee the canines.
Not totally safe from the mutated,
They only creep back some years down the line.

Features, behaviours, distinct regional.
Factors natural or meddling spiritual?

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Pg 296

True Names Forbidden, Cover Names Are Given

Strangely tongued, wearing its mane like a shroud.
Stalking from shadows, intimidating.
Uttering the true name is not allowed,
Instead cover names are designated.

Never refer to the beast as "Susi".
For your own luck and safety, restricted.
"Hukka", "Hiiden hurtta", "Häntäheikki".
These instead being the names permitted.

There are other kinds such as in Norway.
"Fenrir" adapted with massive thick hides.
These are more active in cold wint'ry days.
A lone one can rip through groups with its bites.

The rare seen "Månegarm", hailing from Sweden.
Eclipses spawn their fast, silent advent.
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