Death Metal Poetry: Volume One Whispers of the World

By Mike Koontz

Death Metal Poetry Volume One Whispers of the World is not your fluffy fun poetry and lovesick RnB writing, this is the beauty and life-loving visceral message of death metal, just without the shredding music.

So start reading, and bang that head.

Death metal poetry volume I is a straight-punch view of contemporary life on Earth, socially responsible, fact-based, and never shy.

Read it, hate it, love it but this is us, the human race.

Once you have finished reading this short and whimsical poetry book, be inspired to do life a little bit better, instead of remaining just another mindless homo sapiens that takes pride in the gluttony of polluting, destroying, and consuming our world away.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookRix
• Release date: Jun 21, 2023
• ISBN: 9783755444800

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Mike Koontz

Death Metal Poetry

Volume One Whispers of the World

First published by BookRix 2023

Copyright © 2023 by Mike Koontz

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise without written permission from the publisher. It is illegal to copy this book, post it to a website, or distribute it by any other means without permission.

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

Mike Koontz asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

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This journey would not have been possible without the void-less world, and you.

To my mountain goddess that sits right next to the sea and Ginnungagap.

Contents

Preface

Chapter 1

Moments from the wilderness

The Sunfilled Garden

The void-less world

Who pays more

Oh this world, so wonderful

Like small demons

Why I wrote this book.

They ask me why

Like the sun, I endless stay

The flesh of kings

Our orphaned Earth

Blisters maggots, open wounds

Stab the goose

Food & sustainability is all about science.

Flooded gates and midnight light

Now we drown

Some will say, Earth still reigns

With strength & smile

This temporary one mistake, of Mother Earth

The price we paid

Brick by brick

Bloody rare on their plate

Of oil and beast

Slow we die

A song of crows at midnight dawn

Like beef cattle

The repeating world

The dragon’s breath

Choice and outcome

The Raven Danced

Entangled Atoms

Beyond the river, of daytimes realm

My fingers traced your redolence

Moments from the wilderness

My blood is Norse

Thank you.

About the Author

Preface

The age of the Anthropocene is the age of scientific discoveries, potential, and hope. And equal measures of growing human blindness. All wrapped up into a maelstrom of human beauty and planetary destruction.

Chapter 1

Chapter Separator

Why I love death metal, and why it speaks with the richness of the subtle and earthly beauty of our planet’s landscape.

Life is an endless canvas of