Poetry Heavy Metal fans can be poets, too! Works are sorted chronologically by their completion. Here is an example of a poetry item. By viewing any of these files, you affirm that they all are the property of their respective author(s) and that you will not modify or redistribute them in any way without permission from their author(s). I'd really like to ask you to Sign my Guestbook once you read one of my pieces. It would just thrill me to death! TOP Title of Poem Author Read Now A synopsis about the poem will be here, usually telling about the purpose and inspiration for that particular work. TOP Ride the Fire Benjamin J. Thompson Read Now In tribute to those who died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II. The title/recurring theme was inspired by the Metallica song title Ride the Lightning. This poem, like the Metallica song, is about death/dying. It does not, however, share the views of a depressed heavy metal band. This is one of my better poems, so go ahead and read it. TOP EXPLORE! Benjamin J. Thompson Read Now This is a more lighthearted poem. The first few lines of Metallica's song I Disappear were inspiration. written two days after Ride the Fire. It's about my enthusiasm for learning. TOP Mightier than the Sword Benjamin J. Thompson Read Now Once again, Metallica played a role in this poem's inspiration. One song, entitled Battery, a song whose meaning I have yet to decipher, inspired the "AAB, CCB" rhyme scheme you'll see in the first two stanzas. That, and the energy portrayed by such a rhyme scheme in such a song seemed to match how I felt as I wrote the poem.