Visitation of the Nekra, etc.
By
A J Dalton
Visitation of the Nekra
It is thought
they communicate
but how we do not know
strange ideas coming
into our heads
that surely can’t be ours
twisted as they are
hot visions haunting
even the most fearless minds
with alien vistas
of landscaped agonies
and vermillion chambers below
teeming with tics
and relentless termites
of titanic and awful intent
burrow-biting into
brains and failing flesh
awash with acid baths
and torment
such torment
as should not be known.
Nether Realm
Do not ask of that place
for knowledge then will haunt you.
Guard yourself against whisperings
as they’ll serve only to mislead you
down dark alleys, twisting turns
all roundabout up and down
till you’re lost at last and
you reach your dead end.
By
A J Dalton
Visitation of the Nekra
It is thought
they communicate
but how we do not know
strange ideas coming
into our heads
that surely can’t be ours
twisted as they are
hot visions haunting
even the most fearless minds
with alien vistas
of landscaped agonies
and vermillion chambers below
teeming with tics
and relentless termites
of titanic and awful intent
burrow-biting into
brains and failing flesh
awash with acid baths
and torment
such torment
as should not be known.
Nether Realm
Do not ask of that place
for knowledge then will haunt you.
Guard yourself against whisperings
as they’ll serve only to mislead you
down dark alleys, twisting turns
all roundabout up and down
till you’re lost at last and
you reach your dead end.
Denizens
of the nether realm
they
wait
for ever
and for you
their patience eternal
like the dark mountains
of doom and forgetting.
of the nether realm
they
wait
for ever
and for you
their patience eternal
like the dark mountains
of doom and forgetting.
A J Dalton (www.ajdalton.eu) is a UK-based writer. He’s published the Empire of the Saviours trilogy with Gollancz Orion, The Satanic in Science Fiction and Fantasy with Luna Press, the Dark Woods Rising and Green Man Ascendant poetry collections with Starship Sloane, and other bits and bobs. He lives with his monstrously oppressive cat named Cleopatra.
