The Great War

By Melancholic VIncent

Clouds of fire light up the night

Birds of iron tear up the sky

A plumage of miscellaneous red and yellow

Rains down nails towards the sky

Gutting delicate steel wings at twelve thousand feet

The “wind of gods” whistles in a tunnel made of red-hot metal

Souls filled with bones, devotion and bombs on the rear

Fell with half-eaten carcasses by ascending projectiles

Pulverizes in smothered screams by deafening explosions

 

The earth trembles violently like an earthquake

In the horizon apparitions of metal-twisted monsters

Haunt the souls that will be shed in any moment soon

What resembles of roars of fire from a wounded animal

Scream explosive shells at those who were gazing them from afar

Voices of panic are silenced, eyes of horror are blinded

Bodies are melt down, bones shattered

The doors from hell open to greet the dying souls

In a suffocating scorching breath of flames that kiss the filthy sky

 

Monstrous balloons stealthy descend like ghosts

Projecting a deadly shadow that advances dead-on

Swallowing in fear those that it reaches

Opens a trapdoor showing a vast arsenal

Voluptuous, eccentrically obese and fat

Tons of titanium that dive towards the ground

Clumsily crashing in a screeching bang

Altering the topography of the terrain abruptly crowded with corpses

Corpses that were running in panic and in a sudden flash

Remained static, confusingly calm, of a morbid serenity

They were sleeping in there, scattered in the crumbles and in the streets

 

The Silence, insightful in his arrogance

Had sit in the midst of them until morning

He wisely knew no one was getting up from there

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Copyright 2012 Melancholic VIncent
Published on Thursday, June 7, 2012.     Filed under: "Tribute" and "Poetry"

Author's Note:

The Great War was the definition known to the First World War because there weren't anything like that before, a wrongly titled though since a Second "Great War" was waiting to happen with more devastating effects...
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  • A former member wrote: You showed me this one earlier... i feel again that i have to say just how incredibly this is written. Every detail of the battlefield and its deranging effects coming to its full glory...or disglory.. I loved its depth and its obvious that alot of effort has been put in writing this

  • A former member wrote: A great way of giving image to what most of us can only imagin, very good!

  • Melancholic VIncent On Saturday, October 20, 2012, Melancholic VIncent (428)By person wrote:

    Thanks! This one I think it's especially shocking, cold that runs through the spine

  • dwells On Thursday, June 7, 2012, dwells (4177)By person wrote:

    Divine wind is perhaps the literal translation, and a great Chinese fleet of warships was smashed in the last attempted invasion circa 1600's maybe? This was a great write and the style was different but in a good way, with unusual word choices that only added to an other-worldly feel perhaps, cheers and much enjoyed.

  • Melancholic VIncent On Friday, June 8, 2012, Melancholic VIncent (428)By person wrote:

    Thanks for the contribution, i thought i could be a less obvious, instead of calling air planes, i compared it to birds, and instead of tanks, i could call them something different, I tried to name them as people would have named them when they saw them for the first time

  • FadedBlues On Thursday, June 7, 2012, FadedBlues (2096)By person wrote:

    ...this is very good, considering that English isn't your mother language. it has a darkly abstract quality to it, & certainly depicts the horror & destructive force of the weapons of war.

  • Melancholic VIncent On Thursday, June 7, 2012, Melancholic VIncent (428)By person wrote:

    Thanks, "winds of god" i think is the translation of kamikaze, so i put it instead of kamikaze, i don't know if it is noticeable. I wanted to show the horror of war as something personal and vividly. Even if i never went to war....

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