Tophet Poems | Examples


Raw Red

Raw? Depends on what you saw.
Disaster? From jaw.
Who's the master? Real or raw?
Melee, mighty, maw...

Peoples of the ocean blue?
Vehicles to ride?
What exactly do we do?
Heaven and Hell, hide?

Tide of all tomorrows!
I requite you each!
Surcease of our sorrows?
It must be in our reach!

Peaches grow in gardens?
An orchard is the place.
Wolverines dwell deep in dens!
Rage lurks on the face!

Tyrant of the desert storm?
He's been keeping warm?
Hornets, scorpions, on swarm!
Foment, O my form!

Charm around the ruler's neck?
This will keep safe lords?
Sullen summertime, thy speck.
Light of Sin, fill gourds.

Judgement? For a prophet?
By what right, sir, and when?
Now? Well, this is, Tophet.
O dragons, from thy den...
Categories: tophet, baptism,
Form: Rhyme

High Hells

Drag along the prophet?
Oracle, break the grip.
Tools of iron and Tophet!
Let the heavens rip!

Flippered horrors on the crawl?
Subterranean tour.
High hells? Hand in overhaul.
Liquid has its lure.

Dour the towers in late spring?
Rim of crater wide.
Drench the world, O undying!
Ocean, loose thy tide!

Grim the gambrel gangrel?
Volcano, downward run.
Belladonna, bell and spell!
Young and yellow dun.

Coals a-glow, infernal life?
Dance upon my knife!
Demon-sultan, play thy fife.
Rampant round and rife...

Strife, goals. Remotest controls?
Lost as ancient souls.
Broken, are ye, golden bowls?
Doldrums, dole and tolls.

Holes producing matter?
Apogee, twist with pain...
Night upon the latter?
Floodwater, course from main...
Categories: tophet, allusion,
Form: Rhyme


I Still Survive

The pain you inflict,
Mental and physical;
I endure day and night,
I still survive;
More sufferings I bear,
More the endurance I build;
You uninvited guest, 
Captivated my body and mind;
Without my knowledge,
Touched me, hurt my heart;
Weakened my scenic body,
Coerced me to lie in clinic bed;
Can give as much pain
As the power you may have,
I still survive;
'O' you evil cancer 
From land of tophet;
You are mistaken,
If you think can destroy me;
May perish my body,
Not me, my soul,
I still survive;

© sadashivan nair
Categories: tophet, cancer, destiny,
Form: Prose Poetry
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