The Apocalypt, Thanatos & Sick Flower

Abstract

These three poems by Pradip Mondal—"The Apocalypt," "Thanatos," and "Sick Flower"—delve into cataclysmic dread, mortality, and elusive deception. "The Apocalypt" unleashes an end-times vision of melting icebergs, fiery monsters, cosmic collisions, and prowling doom, echoing ancient prophecies amid surging sins and divine madness. "Thanatos" personalizes death as a parasitic worm sapping vitality, propelling the speaker toward Charon's boat in futile, aging denial. "Sick Flower" personifies a treacherous bloom that seduces at life's dawn only to entomb in the grave, embodying life's camouflaged betrayals. Together, they weave existential terror with mythic undertones.