Another War of the Worlds?

This poem is written to describe the accompanying art by RougePriest of the OP site - thank you Dan. In addition to being a poet, Dan is a very accomplished artist as well. Be sure to checkout the other poems I have written to his art - Faces of Infernal Destruction and Self-Denied, Satisfied and Crucified. This poem is also dedicated to the book and 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells. It is intended to draw parallels to the the radio broadcast event and the 9/11 Trade Center attacks. It is a terrorist and war poem.


This is also an acrostic...



Americans favorite shows all tuned,

Network special news report.

Original programs now resumed,

Tensions build outside New York.

Helicopters fill the sky lined night,

Emergency broadcast systems sound,

Rising chaos, no threats in sight,

All towns quiet, Lady Liberty's down.

Live feeds indicate aerial assault.

Initial reports of alien attacks.

Elastic city's news at fault,

Neighbors crazed, lack of facts.

All seems hopeless, so unreal.

Television programs all seem norm.

Terrible bursts of glass and steel?

Another nightmare terrorist storm?

Choreographed to rational folks,

Kept confused through theatrical hoax.







Copyright © November 2009

Kevin Mooney





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