Hollow Earth entry:
Hidden polar openings
or through volcanoes
By DS Davidson
All those Inner Earths,
concentric circles smaller
and smaller till nil
By David Edwards
Subterra; or, I Dream of Agartha
By Harris Coverley
“I’ll believe as soon
This whole earth may be bor’d, and that the moon
May through the centre creep, and so displease
Her brother’s noontide with the Antipodes.”
— Hermia, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III
Last night
Yet again
I dreamed of Agartha
Realm of realms
Beneath the outer shell of our Earth
Layers within layers
Planets within planets
Crusts within crusts
And between those rotating shells of the Earths
That race of giants are swinging
From enormous tree
To enormous tree
The vines of tensile steel
Our antediluvian brethren
A hundred feet high
Eyes like moons
Teeth like boulders
And minds of infinite
And perennial wisdom
Amongst the ruins of Hyperborea
Lost to our own exterior senses
When Man divided from Man
And our ancestors crept out
Through the frozen wastes
And on to the surface world
The great giants moving ever deeper
And downwards
Towards the eternal inner sun
That gives its immortalising glare
And all it takes
Is dream to join them
Ever so briefly…
Hollow Earth Adventures
By DJ Tyrer
Beneath ersatz miniature sun
Hyperborean heroes long lost
To the pit below the Northern Lights
Quest through antediluvian ruins
And tree-fern jungles damp
Secret dwelling places of dragons
Thunder-lizards and other primordial life
Swordsmen, rogues, sorcerer-scientists
Seeking plunder, forgotten knowledge
Keen blade in one hand
Atomic pistol in the other
One final exultation of elder days
Ground to dust beyond myth
Upon the long-lost surface world
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Whence Hollow Earth’s illumination?
Mineral radiation?
Gaseous irruption?
Luciferian vegetation?
Riparian lava inundation?
Of all these, luminescent reflection
in geometric progression?
By David Edwards
underground ocean
playful plesiosaurs prey
on prehistoric remnants
surface explorers sail it
provide unusual repast
By DS Davidson
The Life Within Earth
By K. A. Williams
Subterranean
Ancient life flourishes here
Luminescent plants
Prehistoric man
Found passage through volcanoes
Survived the Ice Age
Flora and fauna
Untouched by chaos above
War does not threaten
Scifaiku and Haiku: A Poetry Collection – K. A. Williams
Limericks and Other Humorous Poems – K. A. Williams
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