(AA) Gl’Immortali IV
These things, then, the Muses sang who dwell on Olympus, nine daughters begotten by great Zeus, Cleio and Euterpe, Thaleia, Melpomene and Terpsichore, and Erato and Polyhymnia and Urania and Calliope, who is the chiefest of them all, for she attends on worshipful princes
Hesiod
Immortal Embassy
The lights of heaven are shut in pitchy clouds
And flakes of fire run tilting through the sky
Like dim ostents to some great tragedy
Thomas of Woodstock
To the lofty shock of the golden guard,
Mephistophilis appear’d at Bifrost,
“You may,” says Heimdall, “pass into Asgard…”
Where, after splendid Ithavol was cross’d,
Welcom’d abroad
Was Satan’s embassy,
Splendid-scented abode plays host to victory!
Old Odin drank into night,
Quaffing barrels of beer
Toasting the highlights of the fight
With the Cockrelle musketeer,
As all at once the air grew tight
The Daemon drools a sneer;
“Aesir, I bring an offer from my lord
Together let’s put Pyerun to the sword!”
Sits there, Odin, undecided,
To drag the wars on more,
“Sire, be counted,” Loki whisper’d,
“& settle an old score,”
In silence sinks the One-Eyed One, then smiles, then nods at Thor.
Valhalla
Promise of Jove
My God! I will address Thee
In loudest hymns of praise;
Then, too, my soul shall bless Thee
Synyesius
Gods gathering around Ignatius
Pray with the Saint upon the Bark & Cope,
While solem psalms sung by Quirinius
Seem as if pew’d in Saint Pauls near the Pope;
“Where art thou Jove?”
The congregation yearns,
Melodious they strove as every hymn-note burns.
“Who lives in love loves least to live
& a long delay dost rue,
If Him we loved will us forgive,
Him to whom all praise is due,
Then evil from our souls shall sieve
& give those souls to You –
Come show the world your spirit, still, is strong!”
Disturbs, Archangel Gabriel, this song…
“As God made man by image seen
So share, the Gods, men’s faults,
& if was seen, by movie screen,
The narcissistic schmaltz
Of Hitler, Jove would crackle anger flung as lightning bolts!
Earth
Evil Empire
A terrible change is come: I see a cloud
Brooding over the valley like the wing
Of a destroying angel dark & dread
CL Reddell
Midgard play’d host to the Leviathan;
As Hydra Demagorgons held the land,
From ocean trench surfaces the Kraken,
It’s tentacles encreeping under sand;
To stand apart,
Sucking the islands dry
Of harvest, hope & heart, while watchful Wyvrns fly.
Satanus call’d a grand counsel
To discuss the growing war,
Along the high road into Hell
Rode the company of Thor,
Announced by the doom-peeling bell,
Led thro th’ivory door,
Presented ‘fore the princely throne of bone,
“All Asia guarded by Pyerun alone.”
“We will be strong Lord Lucifer
& compensate thy flanks…”
Lone warrior in black armour
Strode clanking thro’ the ranks,
“My name is Barbarossa, for this battle offer thanks.”
Pandemonium
Babababgorath
I see beyond all words his future shape,
Its feet upon the carcass of the ape
& round its mighty head, prophetic birds
Thomas Blackburn
Updripping from the scum of Avernus
The Proud Aspirer seems a giant ram
O wrath-swollen dragon of Satanus
Lurching to feast upon the holy Lamb;
Such flaggy wings
Stretch from his brazen back
While innum’rable things hiss thro a fissure crack.
The Worm unfurls his scaly tail,
His monstrous body rumbles,
Wings flapping as a mainyard sail,
While stinking sulphur grumbles –
Steaming from teeth stain’d gobbet stale –
Out some sinner tumbles,
Screaming in desperation at his crimes
A frail endtimer at the end of times.
To battle goes the Lizard King
Across Vesuvo’s waste,
Now half-footing, now half-flying,
To Heaven in his haste,
The hordes of Hell behind him in the glow of hate encased.
Ausonia
Love’s Hope
The hot desires burn low, and wan
Those ashy fires, that flamed anon.
The stars have twinkled, and gone out
John Galsworthy
A river courses thro’ a horseful plain,
Carriageing one golden strand of Venus,
On its fibres a precious, faint bloodstain,
Ingraining the best of her essences;
Europa’s shore
Watches Thetis make play,
Where peasant waters pour into a crescent bay.
As Merman scouts the outer seas,
He spies a velvety thread,
Escorts it thro’ the coral trees
To where old Dagon rested,
& plants it on the snoring wheeze
Of Neptune, bare-chested,
It-locking in an airy, lucid dome,
Now blown off spinning thro’ the under-foam.
Hair lands inside an oyster shell,
Jaws quiver as they close,
Ambrosial mother of pearl,
As soft as spring time snows,
Hushes her magic as the fibre to a wylde rose grows.
Oceania
Barbarossa Dawn
Now stoops the sun, & dies day’s cheerful light.
When stars tread forth, intone this two-tongued folk,
Standing with firebrands, hymns of sacrifice
CM Doughty
Satanus advances slowly for Heaven
The Gods, like scuttling rats, flee from his feet
Jove’s treachery never once forgotten
As thrust-by-thrust his vengeances did meet;
By black-cloth sun
Moons flew in blood red hide,
All was devastation, & deadly deicide.
At the point of concentration
Hells black legions forced to wait
Til upon the south orison
Camst the Aesir one month late
Says Odin my humblest pardon
But we were tricked by fate
To battle do with Pyerun’s minions
Amidst the Transylvanian mountains
But we are come now Lucifer
To compensate thy flanks
Lone warrior in black armour
Strode clanking thro the ranks
His name is Barbarossa for this battle gives you thanks
Europa
Murder Momentous
in the voice of the wind
in the surge of the sea
in the Aspect & the Being
Antonio Jacinto
Three Rainbow Wyvrn, sleekly serpentine,
Hear the entrancing chords of the Shinto,
Summon’d to Fujiyama’s sacred shrine
Where waited Bishamon, coal eyes aglow;
Astride the back
Of rare, mystical steed…
He orders an attack, over the seas they speed…
At the heart of a silver sea
They came on a volcano
Slumbering in tranquillity
Was the eagle of Hino,
They fell on him in wylde fury,
Bird whimpers as they go…
Three days later spotted by Gabriel,
Stripp’d of plumage, voice tringing madrigal…
Neon-swath’d towers scrape the sky
Beneath the spangl’d stars
Hino’s heart’s cry, Sam’s soulful sigh
Swept from a throne of cars,
“The time has come for battle & a war to end all wars!”
Americana
A Season in Hell
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Balrog, chief cause & culprit of these rhymes,
Tours the seven circles of Satanus,
Meph’ found him with the broken-hearted crimes,
“Our lord bids thee return to Cocytus!”
With hugeous urge
Of his wing gigantic,
Hades sways to the surge rippling forth concentric.
Roaming over dismember’d souls
Astrew the fiery cavern,
Yon Caina, Judeccan falls,
Lands by the Anti-Heaven,
Striding along skeletal halls
Toward the cloven one –
The pair well met, aft converse serpentine
They saunter thro’ dungeons incarnadine,
Where imps collect the crimson goo,
Long in labours wheeling,
When these first few drops from the Jew
Weepeth from the ceiling,
Ghouls sing Carmen Cruenta to the crude Doom Bell’s peeling.
Pandemonium
Holy Waters
The sea shall seethe like boiling casserole,
Change colors, taking on unnatural form,
Showing its ill will at full blast to all
Ausiàs March
Uncle Sam sat enthroned with Liberty
Upon the voyage East to Albion,
Entertain’d elegantly pleasantly
By his royal emissary, Dagon;
Relaxed, despite
The stern vein of that day,
How soon the deadly fight, how soon the frightful fray?
Little did those deities know
That out of the stagnant Styx,
A fleet of foul Sea-Devils flow,
So vicious in vilesome mix,
The brave Mermen could only slow
The foe with eye-glow fixt
Upon a shimmering, sun-brush’d surface,
Up to that barge they roar in dorkish race!
Neptune appears & checks progress
With trident, crown & shield,
Grim devils press their gruesomeness,
But Gods will rarely yield,
Soon corpses float about him in a liquid battlefield.
Oceania
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