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Henry Martin

Henry Martin

poem writer

Blastoff

poem

Jun 22, 2023

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The gates of hell are open night and day;
smooth the descent, and easy is the way ,
a slender fading silhouette plummets astray
down that dreadful heartless holy hollow;
that bygone hour of splendour now gives way
to insidious tumours multiplying sorrow.

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Shrinking in shambles as I dive into the fray
of that malignant ill-reminisced morrow;
sneakily spreading day-by-day,
dwelling in this soon-to-be food for flies,
for to return, and view the cheerful skies,
in this the task and mighty labour lies.

© Henry Martin 2023

Note: italicised lines are borrowed from John Dryden’s translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, Book VI.

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