(Petrified in the) Hypogean Gaol

(Orbital Debris: A. Bradley)

Blast off

From the lunar settlement

Orbiting moonbase

Looms overhead

Nuclear core

Ignites and consumes

Blighted dwellers

Hover lifeless in stasis

Internal atmosphere

Is spewing out

Yet the targeting course

Is unaffected

Bludgeoned escape pod

Drowns in moisture

From the oxygen rich

Composition

Towering spires

Reach for the thermosphere

On the bleak horizon

Plagued in black ore

Old Earth laments

In dismic woe

Lingering throes

Of this alien world

Glide over foliage

And into the soil

Leaping quadrupeds

Scatter the land

Outer seal of the capsule

Released

As tempestuous utterances

Spew from beneath the ground

In a scoured

Beyond alien tongue

Speaking inoculated

Truth of a perennial quest

Tribal clans tell

Of a chthonous terror

Where ancient structures ooze

Beneath miles of mud

They lead me deep

Into the heaving earth

Where an age old bas-relief

Is sculpted inevitable

A grand triptych

Of a celestial emissary

Unleashed from

Its hypogean gaol

(Hovering Undescribable Thing: Riley)

Enraged in translucid stimulus

Through divine emanation

Petrified embryotic dormancy

ADAR KAIMANU AG-KIA-ZI

(Translation:

Satur: Fire to the Earth spirit)

(Spurned Immortality Mythos I: Riley)

(A Riposte Of Crepsculated

Lunar Presence: A. Bradley)

(Tumultuous Meridian Occurence: J. Bradley)

Upon pensive waters

The beast is defeated

In cacophonous splendor

Vanquished

By moonbase cannons

Quantized

For moonshot blitz

It flees through

A tremendous portal

An astral conjuration

Plasma trails arcing

From garroted

Ancient spoils

As cystic marrow falls

Its cortexial cruor

Visibly spills

From the frontal lobe

Miasma of dying titan flesh

Its molten corpse

A harbinguous cenotaph

(Spurned Immortality Mythos II: Riley)