Gary Bateman Poet Quatrain

Notes About The Poem

Author's Notes: This is a re-post of "Animal of the Night," which is a Narrative Quatrain write that my colleague, Liam McDaid, and I closely collaborated on during its various stages of research, development, finalization. (NOTE: Liam had made this first posting of our co-write here several days earlier.) This poem is steeped in some compelling interrelated themes that find meaning and linkage to certain identified aspects of Greek Mythology. In this sense, the narrative speaks for itself. This macabre write is panoplied with some definite demonstrative imagery that transmits a compelling "word picture" for each one of the eight stanzas of this work. This poem is structured around a number of thematic classification categories. Among the seven of them that seemed to rise to the top during our analysis of this poem, include: betrayal, corruption, emotions, evil, hate, metaphor, and symbolism. Please enjoy reading this one a second time around here with my post of it today! If it's you're first time reading it, that's quite wonderful too! I know that both Liam and I were quite pleased with the end result of this poem. (Gary Bateman - November 28, 2015) (Narrative Quatrain)

Categories: betrayal, corruption, emotions, evil, hate, metaphor, and mythology.

Animal of the Night

Animal of the Night

The animal of the night has an evil courage as its defense,
And with simple lies it now catches the filthy beast easily,
And can now stand and bask in God’s purest of sunshine,
Whilst valor and glory speak all power to one’s destiny!

Darkness doth now pervade and drinks slowly from that
“Chalice of the Faithless Heathen” who hides among the
Soulless Ones who are consumed by their hateful actions,
And spit thoughtlessly at your good will and human pride!

Hades’ very own dark demons tilt their evil night shades
While justifying the hurt and depravity of an “Ugly Brute”;
A truly lost soul without any mercy, blind—as “He” throws
Freely a nasty spiteful spirit on your earthly fire of reality!

Hence, Hades’ mark and mask of utter darkness and terror
Descend now into the very conscience of your Spirit World;
Burning hot with the force of “The Furies” seeking revenge:
Tisiphone, Megaera, and Alecto all appear sans Merci now!

As their eternal gorgonesque spirits creep upon you furtively,
Your once handsome visage turns into a sad and horrid portrait
Of an old animal soul in the mirror never to see the Light again,
As clouds darkly shade your horizon and fate in Hades’ name!

In this eternal land of darkness, the dead do not suffer this fate
So easily, and cast not without honor in their chains the notion
That fear itself, vice destiny, cries out now for your forgiveness,
As One-Eyed Beggars seek and see the basic good within you!

Each day now fades into its own doom, into a dark mist of evil,
And hides carefully inside a “Mountain of Consciousness” where
Your ethereal spirit knows who you really are—as black snakes
slither slowly and silently toward your spirit-mirrored reflection!

You—that “Animal of the Night,” wear now your deceptive mask;
The reality of who and what you really are makes my skin crawl!
You can never return from this darkest “Pit of Hell” my old friend,
For thy animal-human spirit is doomed to all this darkness forever!

Gary Bateman and Liam McDaid – A Collaborated Poem,
Copyright © All Rights Reserved – November 22, 2015 
(Narrative Quatrain)

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Liam Mcdaid November 30, 2015 at 12:12 PM thank you everyone for the heartfelt beautiful comments wishing you all a blessed week

Liam Mcdaid November 30, 2015 at 12:11 PM truly a great pleasure writing this with you garry diamond your pen sparkles into the darkness wishing you both a blessed week Gary Bateman November 30, 2015 at 5:25 PM Thanks Mate for dropping by. (We both just have to make sure we don't make any of "The Furies" mad at us over Christmas. HA!! HA!! Remember, they have No Mercy!!) Cheers and Best, Gary

Poet Destroyer A November 29, 2015 at 9:44 PM Hello, Gary, you are amazing when it comes to collaborations. I like the way you both reveal dark imagery around this eternal land of darkness. Hades' and doom. Thank you for sharing. Love LINDA Gary Bateman November 30, 2015 at 5:22 PM Hello Linda!! The dark themes are always fun especially if they have touches of mythology and fantasy built into them. I'm very pleased you like this one!! Liam and I decided to do one more before the close of this year!! Best Wishes too for the Christmas season!! (I like your new "Christmas Pic" with the cap!! So nice . . . so cute!!) Cheers and Best Always, Gary (XOXO!!)

Dorian Petersen Potter November 28, 2015 at 4:53 PM Hi Gary n' Liam!Wow! Wow!This is a very sad and dark but very powerful poem that you've written here my dearest friends.Just outstanding! A masterpiece!A very, very sad and dark scary piece indeed, but very beautifully penned.I love it!Incredible imagery! Excellent collaboration!Just awesome!Your pens are truly mighty golden!A 7 + + + to each!A Fav!Wishing you a very lovely weekend!In His light God bless you always!:)Love n' hugs!xoxox D.^O^" Gary Bateman November 29, 2015 at 1:51 PM Hello Dearest One "D" -- Many thanks for me and behalf of Liam too. (He may be commenting later.) For sure, this is the last dark write of this year. I'm switching over to the Christmas mode here very soon. Thanks too for the Super Seven Rating and the FAV!! I'm pleased very much that you enjoyed this write "D"!! Cheers and Best, "G"

Anne-Lise Andresen November 28, 2015 at 3:50 PM - I have to say the same to you Gary (just read Liam's ) - Wooow ..... I MUST say that !!!!! - What a marvelous write !!!! - The night monster could not be better described !!!! - I get shivers just by reading this - (tr.+f.) - Hugs and <3 // Anne-Lise :) Anne-Lise Andresen November 28, 2015 at 4:26 PM :))) Gary Bateman November 28, 2015 at 4:24 PM Dear Anne-Lise!! Thanks for the "TR" + "F"!! And thanks, as always, for your gracious comments in spite of the dark theme subject. I told Liam, for me, no more dark theme writes until we get a few months or so into the new year. I figured that this one would somewhat compete with that "horribly scary" write we posted on 1 October: "Halloween's Visage of Evil." I remember your original comments on that one were that it was very well-done, but the subject was "just awful." (HA!! HA!!) We all still ended up with "POTD" for that one, which shows that sometimes "Scary" = "The Best"!! Cheers and Best, Gary