Heavy Metal Heart

Metal heart
Dark down-tuned vibrations
Reach to the very depths of my soul

Echoing
Through the deepest caverns
Seeping salty into sea and soil

I’m earthy
With your cross-leaved summer heath
Thick with cotton grass and sphagnum moss

My blood sings
Flooding all the senses
With the beat of your heavy metal

Kim M. Russell, 12th June 2025

Image by Jackie L on Unsplash

This Thursday at the dVerse Poets Pub we are meeting the bar with Laura, and a lover as second nature.

Laura says that, having selected the theme for this prompt, her thoughts immediately turned to the Bard and Sonnet 18, one of my favourites, as well as Lord Byron, who wrote of his lover in likened terms.

Our theme is the beauty of a (real or imaginary)  lover as compared with and described in images of nature, and we are writing poems in the form devised by Karan Naidu, which he called a Parallelogram de Crystalline (apparently dedicated to his soulmate, Crystal Rose), which is quite simple and short:There are twelve 12 lines in total (each Capitalised but without punctuation), laid out in four stanzas of three lines, unrhymed, and the syllable count per stanza is 3, 6, 9. We should also keep the complementary images crisp.

19 thoughts on “Heavy Metal Heart”

  3. Oh I feel the sincerity in this! The Nordic countries are full of heavy metal I must say. Great poetry. Trying to think of a metal band I know….but no English ones, only foreign, and only female lead singers…works best like that, am convinced..oh yes, Jinger from Ukraine sing in English, and a Moldovan group, something Rain…cannot remember…hmmm annoying,will try to remember.

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