HELL FIRE

Land on fire, smoke and flame, We only have ourselves to blame

HELL FIRE

 

Racing out of blinding smoke

Red lights drilling a path

The siren a wailing banshee

Nothing was meant to last

 

Flames turning night to fire

What wonders fill the dark

Newsmen shouting to be heard

Lungs bursting in need of air

 

Roaring burst of a flaming front

Walls falling in

Smoking hell at every point

Men fight to win

 

The story unfolding now

Has no moral and no plot

We stand condemned for living

Where reason was forgot  

 

---- Eagle Cruagh

Reviews

[A.Lee]

Very vivid imagery. I feel like I'm standing there amidst the chaos and people yelling... It almost chokes you. Excellent writing. I could sit and browse through your work for quite a while.

[Sanity&PurposefulWa..]

The resiliance to live, we fight to live, yet we must also fight to find our purpose. Excellent poem.

[De_Sexo_En_Vivo]

energetic, tell me Eagle, what inspired you?

[Gossamerwings36]

Full of life, you can even feel like you were there, feel the heat upon your face and hands, breath in the smoke.

[Storygirl]

This poem defines a hellish moment and creates an immediacy that pulls me in. Vivid. Very well crafted.

[azreilla]

i like the depth of this poem it hits close. You seem to have an eye for the darker underlining things in life I respect that. You are not scare to indulge past the sunshine. I will read on.

[ATG]

I like it. It was an interesting poem. Very well written.

[Emily Elizabeth]

Wow this poem is brimming with energy and a sense of urgency. Almost like a foreboding. It really created a strong, gripping, vivid image in my head.
Thanks so much for sharing. You have a really professional writing style.

[shawnee lynn]

intense. i like it. the rhymes are subtle and it flows well. a witness's point of view... not a cop or a reporter or even a victim. the opinion of a bystander.

[dilettante1890]

very fatalistic poem. So of course I like it. For some reason I thought of Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls.