Tag: senryu

thunder and oblivion threatens: the pilgrim laughs mindlessly at the heavens

the body behaves like a mad thing indifferent to the extremes of the city’s terror

spring before dusk the verdant landscape is suddenly reduced to a bleak grey horror

divinity tends to its garden: tenderly scattering stardust and watching with keen intent as bones bloom from dark matter

cruel streets wait patiently as the light comes crawling back one ray at a time

across battlefields swollen with bodies and rubble scavengers harvest and remake the world in their vision: brutal

true morning: bodies of still and natural life bathed in a gentle glow of golden

within reach to horizon each tree contributes a tune to the collective birdsong

gone are the cosmic sounds and reverberations of worlds beyond from the night after

each word in the spell: is a haunting that lingers in the space spoken gathering essence to power an apparatus of annihilation