Poetry

Andy Omvik photo

By

Adam Levon Brown

Rome will Burn (Again)

Arson always seemed

like a terrible idea to me

But here I am

Dressed in moonshine

with matches in hand

Ready to burn down

the establishment with

Molotov fury

Mega annum of evolution

and I am brushed with

war paint in the ides

of my celestial ritual

Wings of the effigy

stare naked eyes at

miscreants

More fuel shall be

added to the Fasces

until creation itself

is drunk on fumes

A bonfire will wash

away the stench of

inverted totalitarianism

And usher in a renaissance

unrivaled in human history

Nordic Miseries

Loki secretly

cries at night

for killing Baldur

Hugin and Munin

see far too much

for Odin to handle

Freya championed

the battle, but lost

her bravery

Gungnir and Mjolnir

sit idly by while

Thor partakes in trickery

The whole damn house

is falling down

Adam Levon Brown

Adam Levon Brown is a published author, poet, amateur photographer, and cat lover. He is owner of Madness Muse Press; a micro-press that publishes dark poetry, and a book reviewer for Five 2 One Magazine. He has been published in dozens of venues, including Burningword Literary Journal and Yellow Chair Review. Adam can be contacted via his website where he offers free poetry resources.

Adam Levon Brown burst through the door of contemporary poetry in early 2015 after being diagnosed with Schizoaffective disorder. He used writing as a tool for catharsis and eventually started submitting his poems to journals and magazines. Now an established poet with dozens of publications, a fiction novella, and two full collections of poetry out, he plans to take the poetry world by storm.

Adam has one chapbook out titled, “These Streets Don’t Cry For Us” which can be found on Amazon. He attends Lane Community College and will soon attend the University of Oregon as an English Major/Creative Writing Minor.