Saturday, April 6, 2013

30 Day Poetry Challenge - Day Six

Day Six - Write a poem from Mars. Describe ordinary things in unfamiliar ways,
as through the eyes of someone from another planet unfamiliar with our culture/objects/emotions.





Five Day Martian Forecast

What is this thing they call snow?
I’ve heard stories; they’ve piqued
      my interest…
Cold, wet feathers, soft and delicate,
Tumbling down from overcast skies
In a gently winding freefalling dance
To melt upon raw, rosy cheeks…
It sounds like an impossible dream.

All I ever know are the Martian wastes;
A barren, desert, sepia tone hell
Of blowing, whipping, ripping sand.
Harshly chafing, windy shards;
Course, dry, progenitor of glass,
Showering me in granulated torment…

I long for an eternal December,
A scene out of my crisp, white fantasies…
To lie upon a soothing mattress
Of thick, pearly fluff
And let those damned Martian deserts
Seep forever from my soul.
 

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