Poetry

Battle Frenzy

Caesar's invasions of Britain
Caesar’s invasions of Britain courtesy of en.wikipedia.org

Screams all around
cries and shouts
No friend can be found
or seen hereabouts
As swords clash
and mud flies
Lightening above does flash
down on the endless fight

One fights on sluggish feet
trying to kill his enemy
Both of them do bleed
looking for a weakness unseen
And then one strikes home
through tissue and more
Crunching bone
with his mighty sword

Then something stirs in him
something felt only once before
A power rises from within
and grows evermore
Suddenly he has new-found energy
where moments before he had none
He knows it’s battle frenzy
as many from him run

Then it is all over
as he looks around him now
At what’s been done brother to brother
he wonders why, when and how?
Limbs and bodies broken
torn apart by fury
Left for the ravenous carrion
what will feed off them till morning

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Darren Greenidge

I'm a thinker, listener, a "question's pretty much everything" type of person. A seeker of knowledge, always restless, yet seeks the calm in life. I love writing in all forms and am in the process of completing a number of ongoing projects. I love the craft of writing and the possibilities it holds. A magic carpet through the mind. I love pretty much all creative arts, music, film and theatre the leading ones. Born in Hertfordshire in England, my family Irish, Welsh and English, I currently reside in Edinburgh, in Scotland. I'm drawn to coastal and mountain regions where I like to go to think and draw inspiration from. Ireland is a place that's dear to me, and I try to get back to see family and friends as much as possible. My interests are wide and broad, too many to mention here, but history, archaeology, criminology, music and film are just some of those things I love. I hope you enjoy my ramblings on here as that's what they are really. I'll let my fingers do the ''talking...''

5 thoughts on “Battle Frenzy”

      1. 0_0 please make an even gorier version. I love gore (in literature). If you ever need inspiration just listen to some cannibal corpse stuff. 🙂

      2. Haha, I shall do another later for you and I will give Cannibal Corpse a listen as well.
        It may get me in the mood for something bloodthirsty! 😉

      3. unleashing the “bloodthirsty” is a song by them! haha.If you don’t like old school death metal, don’t even try haha.

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