A NEW LAND OF BLOOD
By
M.J.Hewitt
For a while I let my self drift hither and thither upon the warm uplifting currents of caressing air, I gaze down through a slight misty haze, through tired eyes, and at once I am paralysed by a rich deep fear, a fear that loosens my bowels, a fear that turns my body into rubber, and puts chips of burning ice into my blood stream, I am at once completely mesmerised by the enormous carnage that now plagues my once beloved land.
For Death now rules planet earth,
Death is king,
Death is the lone conqueror of my once gorgeous abundant planet,
Lakes and lakes of crimson smother, drowning the once fertile soil of this blessed land in bubbling rippling coppery stinking blood.
Hideous monsters wade through the blood, they lap up my ancestor’s blood, and they drink and wallow and mate in the enormous sea of blood.
With our white bones they are impaling, with our white bones they are building, they are building a knobbly looking, crooked tower right up higher and higher, for they are reaching for the stars.
The beasts are swarming like ants, up and up the crooked bony tower, they fight and beat each other with our crimson streaked dripping bones, they impale, they impale and gouge and twist and shriek with what seams like a manic delight or excitement.
“This is not earth,” I scream,” this can not be earth, I will never, never accept that this is now earth”, but the torn limbless bodies, the empty staring eyed skulls, and the bones, the bones, pile upon pile of ivory coloured splintered bones, they whisper to me a very sad and different disturbing story which I can not, and will not, ever believe.for my sanity I will never believe.
Bio:
Matthew.J.Hewitt spoken of in the press as the new king of dark poetry, born in 1968 this young poets critical acclaim are as follows:
The great poet Bruce Boston says”Hewitts work has potential and emotion”. Simon Clark, famous British horror writer, tipped as the new Stephen King, says of the poem “The fire of insanity”,”This is a piece of real power, rich in imagery, sure to be published,”and of the poem”pan”, clark says”incredible vivid imagery”and of the poem”it came from the swamp”an intensely visual piece in a style that you seem to be claiming for your own.”And of the poem “Evil””this is a darkly powerfull piece.”Andy Cox editor of T.T.A.press says,”Hewitts poetry is brilliant, the best I have ever read.”
Michael Arnzen bram stoker award nominee, professor of literature says of “pan”this is a good job of fomenting madness, and the insane chaos of pain, the collective voice is chilling, and creepy,”and of”The fire of insanity””you’ve definitely got a talent for mood, and atmosphere, this is a dark and dangerous piece,”and of the poem”it came from the swamp”chock full of creepy images, dark and disturbing, you have an innate talent”. Also L.Michael Lohr editor says of “it came from the swamp””, this reminds me of Lovecraft, very visual and intense.”
Famous author Steven Climer says of “The fire of insanity”this is a very visual passage, filled with deep despair and emotion,”
Peter Crowther member of H.W.A.says of”The tolling bells””very moody and evocative”,
John.B.Ford, Editor, great Horror writer, says of “The fire of Insanity, it is a very powerful piece”and of “pan” very gothic, and disturbing imagery,”and of “The future”, its sentiment and imagery are chilling,”Hewitt has lots of talent, and his writing is visionary.”Hewitts writing has also been compared to author Lord Dunsany by Australian magazine Redsine.
One of Hewitt’s pieces is to appear alongside a Simon Clark piece called”the derelict of death,”due to be published shortly, which will be available from good book dealers in Great Britain and in America., Hewitt has been published all over the world in unpaid, and paid markets, and he has recently been appointed as fiction editor for Terrortales online, the extremely popular online horror magazine, Hewitts career truly does move from strength, to strength.
