Get Your Premium Membership

Aliens! I shouted above the roar of the blaze

"Aliens!" I shouted above the roar of the blaze. Please rescue us from this godforsaken place veritable hellscape, where angels fear ingress. Just then an unexpected pleasant distraction woke me from induced stupor linkedin to Los Angeles fires jump/kick starting telepathic wife high connection between yours truly husband to a righteous leftist extraterrestrial establishing an immediate cove Van Halen brotherly bond. Here and now would be the time to exercise opportunistic exchange of communication and experience unconditional acceptance despite spindleshanks, which might explain why I beak came the laughing stock of unrelenting torment when a student at the school of hard knocks for knuckleheads, which barely found me earning a diploma graduating with flying colors - black, blue, and red, yet interestingly enough the hues of the home planet where creatures whom yours truly desperately wanted to be taken to, no matter I would never get to befriend potential amazingly literate respondents from All Poetry, Hello Poetry Tumblr, COSMOFUNNEL, My Poetic Side, Poetry Poetry Soup, Poetry Nook, Poetry Vibe, Prose. | A Community for readers and writers, Neopoet | A family of poets, and Poem Hunter, though amidst countless bodies out beyond the outer limits of the twilight zone hiding within dark shadows or maybe lurking along the edge of night awaited homeboys to regale me about learning the secret to survive nothing short of a thermonuclear war, a bajillion times more horrific than the tragedy that signaled confluence of meteorological factors wrought, hellscape in southern California global warming suspected, nevertheless, who in their grooviest, and wildest dreams could have thought never in a millions years Dante's Inferno cruel fiery fate jump/kick started lapping flames argh. I read the horrific news from afar (no less than a bajillion miles from Earth) transfixed watching live action broadcast from the most sophisticated input device (unknown to man) finding me rapt (quite an understatement) and hypnotized fixated on the raft of burning mansions mega million dollar homes now chock full of tsuris unbearable unimaginable unrecognizable fraught nouveau homeless - yes with money in the bank to seek shelter at a pricey glitzy accommodation tormented courtesy charred domiciles gifted into rubble ground hovels searing casting an everlasting impression upon mine eyes. Inescapable nightmare reality indelibly etched numb burrs of retinas burned with ineradicable images see sinned with unfair indiscriminate scenes grafted in soot to ash heaps impossible mission to differentiate though amidst the mounds of mourning dewy eyed resilience camaraderie witnessed salvation, where random acts of kindness punctuated disequilibrium while search and rescue teams combed thru debris no matter hot embers still smoldered coalescence generated an eerie orange otherworldly glow like a quiet riot of Venusian topography where average surface temperature on said planet around eight hundred and sixty seven degrees Fahrenheit (464 degrees Celsius), making said solar body the hottest planet in our solar system due to strong greenhouse effect caused by its thick carbon dioxide atmosphere earning evening star appellation qua Earth's "evil twin" because of its thick atmosphere of carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid, which chemical cocktail poisonous to life.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2025




Post Comments

Poetrysoup is an environment of encouragement and growth so only provide specific positive comments that indicate what you appreciate about the poem. Negative comments will result your account being banned.

Please Login to post a comment

A comment has not been posted for this poem. Encourage a poet by being the first to comment.


Book: Reflection on the Important Things