Kaiju Poems

We Need Better Monsters, Part I

...It was quite a surprise to us
when monsters came out of the night,
the beasts and bad guys of legends
who for so long gave us a fright.

We thought they lived on movie screens,
pulpy books, and...

Categories: kaiju, abuse, conflict, corruption, dark,
Form: Narrative

Just Disappear

...You’re nothing, but scum
You’re nothing, but waste
You’re nothing, but trash
You’re nothing, but lies.

Loathing around the house
Ear stuck to the phone
Keeping dirty secrets 
Vanishing half ...

Categories: kaiju, abuse, angst, emotions, father,
Form: Free verse

Comic Book Hell

...The fires of Hell took to the comic books,
And danced with the best as the pages shook!
Bill and Ted, Godzilla and Hellboy grew,
Amongst ash clouds while demons violently flew.

Hellboy smoked h...

Categories: kaiju, beauty,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Destroy All Monsters

...Sixties Japanese Kaiju films
My recollection overwhelms
"Destroy All Monsters" was the best
Kilaak Queen's most evil intent
World and its armies circumvent
Want to watch it now?  Be my guest!

...

Categories: kaiju, conflict, earth, film, planet,
Form: Rhyme

Dealing With Kaiju

...My name is Nolan Greenstier,
and I fly a B-52,
on my daily ocean patrol
keeping lookout for the Kaiju.

I know this sounds ridiculous,
like some B-movie from back when,
cube-square law prevent...

Categories: kaiju, fun, humorous, jobs, military,
Form: Narrative

I Believe

...Based on a poem by Tim Gunderman

Fight to breathe, fight to cease
our endless warring broken for the chaos we call peace.

I do believe and must concede
that a battle doesn't mean a p...

Categories: kaiju, faith, god, peace, war,
Form: Rhyme

Once Upon a Summer Missing

...(Dedicated to Silent One --
who doesn't like bigly words.)

After a gentle, soft Summer drizzle
Fine web filaments tingle and glisten
In rainbow beams of fusion sun sizzle --
Stirring all life ...

Categories: kaiju, absence, beach, desire, friend,
Form: Quatrain

Ode of a Kaiju King

...Since the Time of Dawn,
The World Was Enriched with Nuclear Spawn,
For the Greatest Discoveries … are achieved at the Cost of Great Scientific Atrocities!
For the Enter the World of Fear, 
It wil...

Categories: kaiju, allegory, bereavement, conflict, dark,
Form: Tail-rhyme

An Ancient New Clear Menace Godzilla

...A Rupture … the Ground Shakes …
In 1954 … did something Awake?
For what was unleashed from the Atomic Mushroom Cloud?
A Horror that Skreeornked So Loud?
A Mystery that would Cloud,
A Walking Fos...

Categories: kaiju, conflict, fear, green, nature,
Form: Tail-rhyme