Limerick: The Door To Hell Poem by Kim Barney
Limerick: The Door To Hell
I travel a lot, and do it well.
I'm a bon vivant, as you can tell,
But the last time I went
I had cause to repent;
I ended up at the Door to Hell.
Soviet geologists were drilling at the site in 1971 and tapped into a cavern filled with natural gas.
But the ground beneath the drilling rig collapsed, leaving a hole with a diameter of 70 meters.
Fearing that the hole would lead to the release of poisonous gases, the team decided to burn it off.
It was hoped that the fire would use all the fuel within days, but the gas is still burning today.
The flames generate a golden glow which can be seen for miles around Derweze, a village with a population of about 350.
The site is about 260 kilometers north of Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan.
25 February 2017
Good limerick. I wonder how much effect that burning site and others like it have on the north pole ice melting.
An interesting comment. I had not thought of that, but it could indeed have some effect, and there ARE other sites like this one, in other countries.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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4/24/2024 9:30:24 PM # 1.0.0.1119
Amazing! I had never heard of this.