Skeleton
an hourglass holds time plankton blooms, expires settles as deathly remains
land shifts, flows and raises waves and rivers, abrades and fractures abyss dwellers brought to Earth diatom skeletons ground to sand
heat and sun wring out the wet eons dwindle life the wind necromances a death jeté across the Gulf
the veil lifts, falls again seeds sprout, roots spread flowers bud, a forest breathes an hourglass holds time
We can thank diatoms ... a play on the vss365 prompt of atoms for today's poem. Diatoms the little skeletons that make up sand, never stay in one place, and feed forests far-flung. So today we have a Halloween and science(biology) theme; and given we are all made of stardust ... the diatoms of exploding stars ... well ... do you see the mystical connections? Patterns perhaps in a simulation? The Ai image took a lot of prompting and I still didn't quite get what I wanted but I like it all the same:)
Godzilla Versus the Borg
undead; live from the simulated legislative assembly
the ancient lizards armed with fossils petrified wood carbon credits commodify, combust ancient-filthy lucre
the cyborgs wield weaponized nano-syringes cancellations, hypocrisy fear, exclusionary binary barcodes a seemingly virtuous a prison of division
the radioactive tyrannosaurus defends your right to deny evolution
the android horde shields itself in science degrades organic myelination synapses dissolve electrical signals flow unimpeded now of any meaning
the reptiles the quick silver men through mutually-beneficial sadomasochistic symbiosis conduct, ant-viral operations splicing obsolete vectors
Yes, it is getting dark around these parts, literally, and figuratively. Autumn is slowly pushing the sun closer to the horizon and Halloween is rapidly approaching it is also Sci-Fi Saturday, and so I submit for you consideration (Twilight Zone) this sci-fi, horror inspired analogy; any similarities to reality are in your imaginations. This poem was posted previously; but I have jigged it some.
Spineless
stay above the surface among exposed roots and rivulets mangroves tops and moss carpets float down channels and canals manmade or the best example of Martian engineering
carve up the world
savannah or desert a dried up plain of baked earth where a droplet is a well where torrents used to flow and now the land caves in flake by flake time's fingerprints dissolved
or get stuck in a muddy mess swamps and bogs an other such novelty environs hold your ground with sticky tenacity
there is no protection in a world that has stopped moving no distraction and only the presence of all kinds of predatory things
but in the water keep an open mind a soft touch standing your ground dams up the flow gets you stuck in the gutter
so put up your feet let go and give way
no shell no scaffolding now that is what I call fearless living
even a still pond does a ripple takes on an ornate solar reflection glare convergence offers safe passage keeps those with a taste for the vulnerable otherwise occupied with shiny mirages
hovering in aqua-space constant ciliation flamboyantly tender doggedly persistent finlike solar sails sparkling anodized, fleshy hulls whiskers in all directions never intimidated by harder things spineless
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