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Open Poetry #39

Dust! (Sci. Fi.)

secondhanddreampoet
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since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

0 posted 2006-11-15 12:11 PM

(They Dared Disturb the Universe!)

[based on a most fine short ‘Science
Fiction’ story by Dr. Eugene D. Radice]

Where Time was but a memory
beneath a dying sun,
across a cold and dusty sea,
came men with truck and gun.

To win a pointless stellar war
became the captain’s quest,
where ruins from forgotten lore
had sought eternal rest.

A ‘curse’ lay on these ravaged lands
to mock the petty fools,
who brought in greedy mortal hands
destruction’s deadly tools.

....but voices murmer’d in the wind
of millions who were lost...
in payment for the warfare-sin
their deaths had been the cost!....

One by one....men ‘disappeared’
Beneath the laughing sun,
Just stars remain’d when dust had cleared,
So much....for truck....and gun!

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

1 posted 2006-11-15 08:17 AM

secondhanddreampoet
Sometimes when you tell the truth they pass you by. Well done and I enjoyed the read.

ThisDiamond
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-02-22

Posts 9353
Michigan, USA

2 posted 2006-11-15 08:35 AM

Now this may be Sci Fi...but oh, does the truth ring loud and clear!
Good Mornin' Poet!

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

3 posted 2006-11-15 10:31 AM

the juncture
where sci-fi and reality meet

Magnus

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since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

4 posted 2006-11-15 04:57 PM

I might presume/assume that there is another
force that has the high cards, so to speak.

Great cadence, well written.

Martie

Moderator

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

5 posted 2006-11-15 06:25 PM

Yep...sounds like now and I wish it didn't. You must have liked the book, eh? Nicely done!

Pressie
Member

since 2006-11-14

Posts 157
Oklahoma

6 posted 2006-11-15 06:39 PM

I am a huge Sci-fi fan.

Loved the rhythm of your poem.

Your very talented.

Omnia vincit amor

TP

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

7 posted 2006-11-15 07:57 PM

I've never been much into Sci-Fi but I did like this

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