Roaring Death Machine

     Roaring Death Machine

   Reaper's sweet wet dream

             Metal raking

           widow making

      Roaring Death Machine

 

  Desperate screams & Pleas

      Ripping at the seams

            Metal flying

         Ripping Dying

    Spitting tracer streams

 

      Wailing siren lover

    Valkyrie like no other

      Death hand finger

         on her trigger

     Funeral shroud cover

 

     Ripping sky steel

    Murder bird unreal

       terror flaming

       Soul claiming

    Fates turning wheel

 

      Tracers coming

      Targets running

     Motors humming

   Mechanical cunning

       Terror gunning

     Spitting mangling

            death

 

     Roaring Death Machine

   Reapers sweet wet dream

        Metal raking

       Widow making

   Roaring Death Machine

 

 

Author's Note

Heavy automactic weapons. Our Intelligence knew from listening to Hajji's cell phone conversations air assaults by gun ships like C130'S, cobras or A-10'S were particularly demoralizing. If you've ever seen one of these beasts in action it's easy to see why. They tear everything they target to pieces. That's American tax dollars at work right there baby! YEAH!!!

Reviews

[Kaylor Mason]

No sound quite like a minigun

[Baby Ricochet]

for sure

[afra]

so dark ...i enjoyed it ...welldone

[Baby Ricochet]

thanx

[Annabelle Lee]

Great rythm and the beat of the poem really said "Heavy weaponry" Way to write!

[Baby Ricochet]

thanx

[Michael G.]

Awesome write. Awesome feel. Awesome weaponry.

[Baby Ricochet]

thanx

[nigrum homonculus]

that first stanza is f*****g awesome! i like how you repeat it in the end. your wordplay is crazy in this. definitely my favourite of yours. well done!

[Baby Ricochet]

Thanx man

[Freedom's Child]

Wow, great imagery, very vivid. Great piece!

[Baby Ricochet]

Thanx bro

[Persephone]

Definitely sounds like a pretty bad a*s weapon! Love how you have used a poem to describe its lethality!

[Baby Ricochet]

Thanx Persephone

[Patricia B. Hepler]

A painful truth of greed and grief.
The last stanza is most powerful, out of them all:

...'Roaring Death Machine
Reapers sweet wet dream
Metal raking
Widow making
Roaring Death Machine

The staccato rhythm enhances.

~pat

[Baby Ricochet]

Thanx Pat

[Tai Ryens]

Clever rhyme scheme.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thanx Tai

[L. Edward Neale]

Intense imagery. Death From Above: Flight of the Valkerie. Is this reference taken from the movie Apocalypse Now, or is it something that American soldiers actually use or used for real battle motivation? Did your unit have theme songs going into battle?

[Baby Ricochet]

Naaa. Mostly we sang our own songs by basterdizing current pop songs and making all the lyrics about sex. If it allready was about sex we made it 10X dirtier. We also spent a lot of time debating who was hotter. Jlo, Christina Agiulara, Ashley or Jessica Simpson. My choice was always Christina Agiulara. I always had a thing for her

[L. Edward Neale]

Fair call on Christina. Shes got the full package brains beauty and originality.