{"id":288127,"date":"2017-01-01T23:49:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T22:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/zeppelin-down\/"},"modified":"2017-01-01T23:49:57","modified_gmt":"2017-01-01T22:49:57","slug":"zeppelin-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/zeppelin-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Zeppelin Down"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Paul Tristram \/ January 1st, 2017<\/p>\n

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The \u2018Old God\u2019s Of War\u2019 were on our side
that thunder-shaking evening.
Lightning cracked and splintered
the deep, navy blues
of the heavy-artillery skies.
Striking the left side
of the approaching Zeppelin
banking the furthest mountain
upon the horizon.
I\u2019ve never heard a \u2018Sonic Boom\u2019 like it
and I am 97 year old this coming Spring.
Oranges, yellows and reds exploding
like the Devil\u2019s own oil painting come to life.
The ashy, burning stench
tidal-waved atmospherically,
sweeping down the Valley
like a billion bonfires siphoned together
and spat back out in disgust.
Then the rains came down proper,
dropping and hammering
like a Heavenly referee blowing his liquid whistle
and demanding some cosmic \u2018Half-Time\u2019
We withdrew to the ancient cave system
above the bomb-battered Town,
bayonet-heavy, exhilarated and humbled
in the shadows of something infinitely bigger
than the usually crass recourse of Man.<\/p>\n

Paul Tristram is a Welsh writer who has poems, short stories, sketches and photography
\npublished in many publications around the world. He yearns to tattoo porcelain bridesmaids
\ninstead of digging empty graves for innocence at midnight; this too may pass, yet.
\nBuy his books Scribblings Of A Madman<\/a> (Lit Fest Press); Poetry From The Nearest Barstool<\/a>; and a split poetry book The Raven And The Vagabond Heart<\/a> with Bethany W Pope. You can also read his poems and stories here<\/a>! Read other articles by Paul<\/a>, or visit Paul’s…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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by Paul Tristram \/ January 1st, 2017 The \u2018Old God\u2019s Of War\u2019 were on our sidethat thunder-shaking evening.Lightning cracked and splinteredthe deep, navy bluesof the heavy-artillery skies.Striking the left sideof the approaching Zeppelinbanking the furthest mountainupon the horizon.I\u2019ve never heard a \u2018Sonic Boom\u2019 like itand I am 97 year old this coming Spring.Oranges, yellows and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-288127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}