Gary Bateman Poet Free verse

Notes About The Poem

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.

   

Burning Flesh - the Devil's Own

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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Thomas Carney November 30, 2014 at 8:59 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 Gary Bateman November 30, 2014 at 2:21 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

Thomas Carney November 30, 2014 at 8:46 AM My first query.......have you heard from our friend Gene Bourne. I am very concerned. Thanks, Thomas Gary Bateman November 30, 2014 at 2:24 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

Eileen Manassian November 29, 2014 at 11:54 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. Gary Bateman November 30, 2014 at 2:26 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

Dorian Petersen Potter November 29, 2014 at 6:53 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. Gary Bateman November 29, 2014 at 7:08 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