Amok!



Triangles - everywhere! Fluid body movement...
Just one more step to feeding...
Worth dying by his blade, fast enemy!
No choice, I must defeat him!

My knife, my soul, my heart - we're one!
Another slash and parry!
Disarm, and harm that's my intent!
Given the chance - he will not spare me!

I fake a nine, and drive for interception!
The biceps slashed to s##t!
No time to think, the agony, the bleeding!
Another strike, another gashing slit!

I'm running out of time...

No chance to think, no flash before the eyes
Just concentration, breathing...
One step away from death - one understands
What's like to be a man that's living...

Here comes the strike! The block! The counter!
He got me good... I GUT him better!
We stare... into each other's eyes
In silent honor, our farewell forever

So many things, in so few minutes
The pain! So sweet - inhaling air...
The rain - rejuvenating...
But he is gone and does not care...

I soon forget the blood that's on the ground...
And scan the other men that stand around

Beware! All, who's looking for a challenge!
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Submitted on May 02, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XABX CBXB CBAX X DAXA EEDE XFAF GG X
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,026
Words 190
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 1, 4, 4, 4, 2, 1

Didar Baizhanov

Somewhere between my birth in the land-locked nation of Kazakhstan and becoming U.S. Merchant Marine officer - poetry became something of a satellite in my travels through life ;) ____________________ My most sincere Thank You! for the feedback! ____________________ Here are some poems that I liked (here on Lulu), please give appropriate authors your comments if you get a chance:- October Hearts by PoetryofJune - High(Coup) by JayS (haiku) - Tranquility by Beccanine - Nemesis by Timothy Francis Savage - My Bright Place by Zenocyde - I Fought in a War by Justin R Esplin (haiku) - Love Blooms by Dee Edgett - A Haiku: Violin Music by Clara B. Ray - Cigarettes by faustus - Implode by Elise Hadden - Haiku: Violet Roses by PoetryofJune - The Friend I Didn't Want - Ryan Wong :) - Plus Infinity by Neli Fatu de Valahia - Never Good; Never Bad by Graham Geiger - Two Snowflakes by Kiran - With a grey sky by Spirals - Pine Needles by Matthew Lerette - Bound Again by Danny Warren Patterson - Lie-F by RomanoJohnson - A Child's Memory of a War by Change - A Cold November Day by Bonchance - El espejo roto (The Broken Mirror) by Taqua-------------------------------- more…

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