Pandemonium reigned,
Muscles strained,
The chaos was all around.
I took cover and prayed,
but those that stayed,
were flung down to the ground,
by the size of the blast.
It happened so fast,
The dead bodies in a mound.
Father time played his tricks,
a dominatrix,
Like a sadistic hound.
When the dust began to clear,
Then the fear,
really took hold, I found.
I could see what I’d lost,
The terrible cost,
caused by hatred unbound.
suffering all around.
Copyright: Kristian Fogarty 11/June/2018
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Tales from the mind of Kristian 
Very powerful poem.
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Thank you. It was an interesting challenge, it had to be exactly 81 words long and contain the word pandemonium. It felt quite strong, when I was writing it. I pleased you like it. 🙂
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What a great exercise!
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This is so good! You are good at making the words flow – and rhyme! I also like writing poetry but I just can’t rhyme for the life of me.
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Thank you very much 🙂 I think a lot of the best poetry doesn’t rhyme, the words just move you without needing to. I don’t know where the rhymes came from, and the rhyming pattern is strange too, it certainly wasn’t something they taught me on my creative writing course, 😉
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Wow – you really made the challenge work! How did you come up with the idea for 81 words?
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It was part of the challenge, I can’t remember who set it, I linked to their blog though. It could be a story or a poem, for some reason the word Pandmonium inspired me to write a poem. 🙂
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