Tag Archives: Desolate

Land’s End [Free Verse]

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Public beach:
   10am on a Tuesday.

It's peaceful --
   Peaceful in a depressing
      Sort of way.

It's desolate.
   There are gulls and crabs,
      But not a human in sight.

It's like the scene in which
    A solitary survivor --
       Having endured 
       Disease,
       Starvation,
       Outlaws, 
          &
        Zombies 
        While crossing the 
        Continent on foot --
    Realizes he has reached 
            The end of the line, &
        The rumored sanctuary 
            Does not exist...

But at least the view is nice,
    And -- for the moment --
    It's Zombie free.

Dystopian Desolation [Lyric Poem]

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A road lined with burnt out junkers,
   And garbage fires 'round which hunker
 Cold souls sitting in drizzling rain --
   That rain, that rain, their eternal bane.

Blue skies are a distant memory --
   Except for in every reverie
 That denies claustrophobic skies
   The main villain role - e'er reprised.

Where's our long-lost hero, the sun?
   Have stout clouds got him on the run?
 Or maybe our hero 's bleeding out;
    Its feeble showing leaves room for doubt.