Collins Munyanda
Poet: Collins Munyanda.
Country: Zimbabwe.
Behold! Sprawling anointed pulpit!
Watch!
The charismatic imputative preacher!
Chunder ascetic words
blaring conspiracy microphone, hot air alms, allegiance mantles!
Man, electronic decibels contraption blaspheme divine allegiance.
Unsaintly saints overflow enervating churches,
while hypnotic preachers glean debauched tenth offerings.
Until one diabolical *lapis lazuli summer afternoon.
Gullible, enchanted parishioners shouted:
‘Halleluyah! I receive!’ avowed mantra.
Woe!
Woe to stalking wolves in averted colorless sheep’s clothing,
drenched in ebullient rivuleting fallacious sweat.
The Rock of Ages opened heaven’s litigious curtains,
espied them slip away clandestinely
inside a divagated black tainted temple.
Euphonious preacher lit explosive sacrificial altar fires.
Together with an avaricious scarlet caroused harlot supped Johnnie Walker blended scotch whisky, cursed, swore with Belial down eerie underworld caverns.
Hear!
Denuded innocence’s insipid cries.
Gothic witches’ appalling ululations.
Fulminating eviscerated bodies!
Gory, dying silhouttes’ eurhythmics danced like despicable
convicted ghosts against purgatory’s blackened stone walls.
The blood imbrued ebritiated scarlet harlot
rode braggartly on the wild beast’s robust ridged hinder
danced felicitiously to odious
shrieking hell’s degenerated rythmns.
Together with insolent demons,
bowed reverently before Mephiostopheles and Leviathan spurious deities. Together with the black and white chequered temple, they inscrutably evanished beyond revolting, enchanted, deep blue inundated ocean depths. ***
*lapis lazuli – Bright blue pigment sodium aluminium silicate with sulphur. (Azure)
From @World Without a sun-2024.
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