Pamela King Poet Rhyme

100 Light Year Radius

Message sent by radio
years ago, still traveling.
Perhaps something has received,
perceived, but not answering.

North America was first
to burst voice into void.
All nations followed at last,
our broadcast signals deployed.

Next came pixel video,
movie show in black and white.
King George and Adolph Hitler,
bitter foes commence to fight.

Later we added color,
finely tuned for human eyes.
Now our signals form a sphere
of one hundred light-year size.

Did we broadcast woe and strife
that other life could detect?
Our mistakes make me wonder
what answer we should expect.

Have they heard it all before,
murder, war, and wastefulness?
From Earth the same message sent:
We’re sentient yet senseless.

Message sent by radio
years ago, still traveling.
Perhaps something has received,
perceived, but not answering.

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Rico Leffanta November 5, 2020 at 11:26 AM Well done! A solid century of military transmissions should convince the universe of our peaceful intentions! Cymru am byth! Aloha! Rico

Pamela King November 5, 2020 at 8:39 AM This poem conforms to awdl gywydd, a Welsh ballad form that wasn't on the drop down options. I wrote it because the first commercial radio broadcast occurred in November of 1920.