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Author's Notes:  "Burning Flesh - The Devil's Own" is a co-write / co-authored poem by Liam McDaid and me.  Liam had posted our joint write here first the other day on PoetrySoup.  This poem is a dark theme fantasy free verse write that we enjoyed putting together very much.  I hope our fellow poets and readers enjoy it as well.  (Gary Bateman and Liam McDaid - November 26, 2014) (Free Verse poetic format)

Categories:  betrayal, dark, evil, fantasy, horror, imagery, and imagination.

   

Things begin turning around and very slowly they take a nasty foreboding twist as Hell's Dragon has not breathed yet a deep burning fire melting red his eyes dripping blood upon fury and destruction pumping inside the uncontrollable fire equal to that of a thousand steamboats and only he sleeps in the dark dungeons. Chained and suffering in utter Hellfire chained in untold torment and anguish unleashed he would burn your heart no less in a flash—while scorching all to nothingness fried black from the deepest ashes falling cold silently sleeping with wings on fire and chained to love’s weakness as the dark fables say: Do Not Call Upon This Beast—He’s The Devil’s Own! Hell’s Dragon stirs inside with tongues of flames lashing with the pains of hate to strike all now leaving hottest cinders and funeral pyres a plenty it’s now the Devil’s very moment to unleash His Evil, His Demon Dragon upon the saintly and the pure and the precious doing their good works and all and unsuspecting of the malevolence awaiting them. The Devil enters afresh the earthly plane once more and releases His Dragon to inflict harm and to upset God’s celestial equation of peace, harmony, and light— bringing death, destruction, and retribution to all in its flight path while breathing out the harshest and cruelest and hottest flames of fiery perfidy in the name of Lucifer—Himself laughing boisterously at God all the while not knowing the coming angelic answer. The Almighty Lord works indeed in the most mysterious of ways and He will not let his Fallen Angel Lucifer (or “The Devil” on Earth) have His way by murdering innocents through His Dragon proxy only too willing to serve His Master to bring horrible hideous death to all of mankind who fall within its flight path and intention to inflict the most treacherous and dastardly plan of of unmitigated death and horror ever to be unleashed. The angelic answer of the Almighty Lord comes swiftly As Archangels Michael and Gabriel with their Band of Angels enters the earthly plane to confront the Hellfire vengeance of The Devil and His Dragon as they reap and sow their evil upon mankind, and with a sudden determined fury Michael does fatally smote The Devil’s Dragon while lopping its head off and sending its soul back to Hell while Gabriel banishes the demon forces waving his wand! With all this Lucifer knows with all due certainty that He must return and rejoin His evil minions who lurk in the infernal regions of the Earth, knowing that he’s lost once more to the Almighty Lord in another struggle of Good versus Evil and has now been deprived of his most prized pawn of death and destruction—His very own Dragon whose blackened soul suffers now forever in Hell And can never be reincarnated again in its bodily form! Liam McDaid and Gary Bateman – A Collaborated Poem, Copyright © All Rights Reserved (November 28, 2014) (Free Verse poetic format)

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Date: 11/30/2014 8:59:00 AM
Outstanding and vivid portrayal of spiritual warfare, which I see as the real deal. Angels, Satan and his minions, fact or fiction? You give non-believers pause. Congrats on an accurate, biblical scene that surrounds the world. Thomas
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Gary Bateman
Date: 11/30/2014 2:21:00 PM
Thomas, Thanks so much for your visit and read, and for your wonderful comments!! Glad you liked this co-write I did in partnership with my good friend Liam McDaid. Best Wishes, Gary
Date: 11/30/2014 8:46:00 AM
My first query.......have you heard from our friend Gene Bourne. I am very concerned. Thanks, Thomas
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Date: 11/30/2014 2:24:00 PM
Thomas, Actually No. I haven't heard a thing from Gene Bourne since the end of September. I sent him a couple of mails to include one to his private address, but to no avail. Not a word heard!! I'm concerned as well. Best, Gary
Date: 11/29/2014 11:54:00 PM
It was quite the write...full of fire and brimstone. Good wins over evil and God is vindicated. You two work well together, Gary. :) I'm glad you have a writing partner.
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Gary Bateman
Date: 11/30/2014 2:26:00 PM
Thanks Eileen!! Liam and I work very well together, and the same with Michael Clarke. Its so great to be able to share ideas with fellow poets with great talents and big hearts!! All The Best, Gary
Date: 11/29/2014 6:53:00 PM
My dear friend Gary I read this Excellent piece and is awesome! You know there's a lot of the book of Revelation. Good V.S. Evil...the eternal battle that humanity is living since Adam and Eve and their very tragic and sad fall from the Garden of Eden.Those two poor misguided were seduced by satan the most beautiful Angel created by God and still he is now but he's a fallen angel now. A 7 for you and another 7 for my very dear Liam! Have a lovely evening! :) Love and hugs! Xxx D.
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Date: 11/29/2014 7:08:00 PM
"D" Thanks for your most wonderful comment here. (I'm still up late here in Germany, but soon to go to sleep!!). Yes, that whole thing with Lucifer/Satan/The Devil is quite tragic and very much intertwined with the living historical mosaic of mankind. Liam and I liked doing this one. He knows I can write dark themes but I'm really a "Person of the Light" at the end of the day!! Best!! Gary

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