A Poem that Drank the Planets Out of the Sky

[WolfLarsen]

A Poem that Drank the Planets Out of the Sky
By
Wolf Larsen


As the world marches forward into world war three I write a poem, as the land opens its legs to the falling nuclear missiles I make love to you on a huge white page of loudness (the words touching and touching our nakedness like a roar), and we proudly hold up our baby to sacrifice for the approaching mushroom clouds and we smile and smile like shipwrecks at each other and the composers smile like hundreds of monsters sleeping on your tongue and the composers laugh like every fantastic nightmare you have ever touched, in contemporary baroque I unite six billion voices singing their own eulogy, on beautiful sunny days all the flowers are reciting the last words of the human race

Copyright 2004 by Wolf Larsen

 

[wildsweetone]

you know something... just the title grabs me, and then i start reading.


and i'm stuck with reading right to the last word. i just love it when that happens.

 

[WickedEve]

you know something... just the title grabs me, and then i start reading.


and i'm stuck with reading right to the last word. i just love it when that happens.

I can agree with you about the title.
It's quite poetic.

 

[unapologetic]

I'm usually confused by this kind of poetry, and think things like, "uh, that's not poetry," when I read them. Whoa, not the fact here. This is beautiful and frightening - big time kudos for getting both feelings in a wonderfully worded piece.