Best Brimstone Poems

I was giving a lesson on the Liberty Bell, as the daily Church bells went off.
Yes, you guessed it, Dragon wanted to ring them, suddenly he was aloft.
Before we could follow, he was out of sight, but that didn’t matter, anyhow.
The only steepled church, with...

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As I sit here on a Saturday night and prepare my heart for the Lord’s Day tomorrow I can’t help but reminisce about the days I spent in church as a child. The one thing that stands out about the difference between those days and...

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Goodbye, *****Erectus!
Talking monkey with the rainforest tan
Bent knuckles scarred ...
low brow crouching,
and arched eyes wondering — 
Looking at the bright yellow rock
dusk paper moon burning
Green banana hope 
is swelter swagger of nuclear dawn man

Bad buy, *****Sapien!
Curious chimpanzee, ever tool tinkering
Tick-tock pages
of the Jungle...

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Fire N Brimstone 

I feel my blood run cold, like 
ice water is being pumped 
through my veins.
Ice chip tears start to form and 
console my now frozen heart
Blood turns black  from fire n 
brimstone
A raven shrieks announcing his 
arrival, he comes on swift 
wings 
And takes everything...

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A balmy day in February,
A flash of yellow's all I saw,
A welcome harbinger of Spring –
A paper bird upon the wing.

By name, a brimstone butterfly,
So apposite, its sulphur hue
Glows brightly, fresh, upon the eye,
Light as a feather it flits on by.

I watch it settle on...

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Satan brings you "joy"
Until you die in his arms
Of fire and brimstone...

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Take a number and pick a seat

How are you enjoying the heat

Welcome to the kitchen of hell

You will be here for a spell

Rotten meat and burning flesh

Hope you don't mind the smell 

Smell of sulphur masks the fumes

Morbid screaming from the rooms

If you are abrade...

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This street is frequented by people in distress,
because, any difficulty, annoyance, concern, difficulty, contract, time, inconvenience, or obstacle,
were resolved simply in a single walk

The access road is narrow and little traveled.
Except for the people crowding the entrance.

As for me, please
Take me there
 where they don't...

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FIRE AND BRIMSTONE

Whitened collar, fixedly starched 
To the ultimate limits of self-perfection, 
Points righteous, crooked finger 
At an open-mouthed assembly, 
Crouching beneath thick-
Eyebrowed gaze of a dark
Frock-coated scarecrow.

His cackling voice emits 
Hollowed-out squawks,
Casting lines of invective 
Like steel confetti
Into the ironic celebration 
Of a judgemental...

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Pain and fire; you understand?
No! I do not understand myself!
And what have I done?
O God - what have I -
I don't want the answer but I cannot run
What's broken then? Can circumstance really be faulted?
Or has the apple rotted right down to the core?
Nothing left...

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‘ Brimstone ! … ’ (or A Cryptic –Cremation)

Ashes to Ashes
Dust to Dust
Flesh and Blood
Wood and Mud

Sun and Moon
Craters and Crust
Flames to Ashes
Smoke to Dust

Ape and Man
Heart and Brain
Glass and Sand
Abel and Cain

Spend this Space
On this Earth
Cutting Down
Another’s Worth     

So Much...

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‘Brimstone, The Senryu … ’      34th   Senryu

            Fire On Mountain, Strong
      Ashes and Dust, Hot-Wind, Blown
      ...

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See the frightening of the beast,
I think he's angry at the coming east.

He finds it hard to see the house, over the dead…
Overshadowed by thunder heads.

What is that soaring near the tower?
I think it’s the rise of the owl.

If it is but an evil deed,...

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a cool spring Midwestern morning
the preacher started his sermon
a guest preacher known for fire and brimstone
the little country church was filled
censuring the flock about their sins
claiming to be sin free himself
he said he was perfect like Jesus Christ
and that's when it happened
two large front doors...

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Opening my eyes …To the fire
In pain I can’t describe - Hell’s flames …Are beyond my thinking - Beyond comprehension
Nothing can quench …The fire I am alive - I cannot die - I’m on fire … In the depths of a place 
I never imagined...

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