Battle Haiku (epic nonsense)

Brass blares brazenly
Singing psalms of the sonless
Deceased descendents

I call unto you
From darkness, amidst ruin
To your starless death

Arise titan horde
Delirious berserker
Cracks open the sun

kamikaze hash
obliterating gnasher
rain falls on blood tears

ancient deiclast
hacking limb from ragged limb
roars into the night

wearing human skulls
of the slaughtered fortunate
to become jewels

knife that cuts through time
wielded against infant throats
all hail the victor!

the axe torn apart
upon the atomic sword
rests upon the stones.

arterial spurt
your god is but a pale light;
dying firefly

I see your body
strung out amongst the cosmos
debased, diminished

brains scrambled like eggs
fall in chunks at your blue feet.
death is a blessing.

Whence the dawn shatters
There lies the river of blood;
Shimmering torrent.

Open up your chest,
I intend to eat your heart
Full of black bile

Sun implodes under
The great annihilator
Black hole remnants glow

You, who are starving,
When you see your ravaged land,
Know that it was I.

Ignominious,
Thine own hand turned against you
Slated for slaughter

As Jupiter sighs
Mars takes up his flaming sword
Your swain is befouled

Death arrives with spring
Doom laden cherry blossom
On your pallid face

I see your troops have
Entirely lost their minds
The cannibal plague

Sunsets over oaks
Bare branches bent arthritic
You hang by the neck

Mourn, desolate brain
As a smoke clotted wind howls;
Interstitial death

Call forth demon swine
To devour your children
Stacked like cords of wood

The belly cancer
Grief, sorrow, vermin and plague
I bequeath to thee

Along the edges
Of your precious sanity
There I lurk, pushing

Tiny white teeth rend
Splendid arcs of viscera
Like a wood chipper

See the heaving sun
An insect in its death throes
An eye growing dim

Solar analogues
Collapsing suicidal
Consume each other

Shades of fallen leaves
Magical hues of bruises
The dusk of your face

The universe ends
Collapsing bubble of time
Pinpoint of zero

We have been waiting
Watching the dying embers
Like distraught mothers

While a red cloud forms
Over the blackened city
Once, we called it home

Now looking for stars
Through the holes in the ceiling
But they’re lost like us

Hammer strikes the Earth
Dust obscures the gegenschein
As the world is split

Cold season arrives
A clotted cloak of black mist
Settles in the vale

Your wretched faces
Lips smeared with belladonna
Blue eyes just staring

Like a fresh laid egg
Cracked and dropped into the dirt
Sun shines on your brains




She sifts through the dirt
For some nugget, some image
Some anamnesis

Digs frenzied like a
Neurotic caged animal
Seeking the outside

Fingernails bent back
Eyes purple rimmed, ringed in black
She murmurs curses

Her vision is blurred
Her colorful skirt is torn
The dust spirals up

She sits back, shaking
Breath heaves in great ragged tears
Shaking hands held up

Knuckles are swollen
Cuticles stained with soil
She can’t remember

She kicks her leg out
Settles back against the wall
And closes her eyes

She dreams of the grave
Surrounded by umbrellas
And the sound of rain

When the morning comes
Her green eyes slowly open
Taking in the sun

She turns and curls in
Forehead scraping through the dirt
A dirge for lost thoughts