Parched and cracked, the red planet’s soil
Life once flowed in seas, fossils found
The man in the moon may entreat
But sunken eyes on Mars confound
A sphinx’s face gazes back at Earth
Eerie replica of Egypt
Where pyramids are unexplained
A page from sci-fi novels ripped
Cro-Magnon man did not evolve
From Neanderthal DNA
So how did modern man debut
Some speculate an alien race
Did Martians make their way to Earth
When the red planet’s oceans dried
Seeking their self-preservation
A sphinx left behind as a sign
When landing on our blue planet
Finding a climate not too torrid
Did alien knowledge play a role
In creating Egypt’s pyramid
How ancient men could lift such stones
Defies modern science theory
Might refugees from a dead planet
Hold clues to human ancestry
The Viking One photos from space
Created much speculation
The Cydonia region of Mars
Home to a baffling creation
But further exploration suggests
The sphinx is a natural formation
Coincidence, we’re told to believe
Is the proper explanation
Look at Viking One’s photograph
And tell me if you agree
That nature, not aliens, crafted
This awesome similarity
*Entry for PD's contest
Mars face
Perhaps a point we are meant to see,
the face on Mars may match our Sphinx,
half mile high, so they say it are,
the come together links?
on Mars?
Cydonia so they say,
has Pyramids 3 four n 5 sided,
Nasa dinna want us there,
technology could they share,
when comes rewards, requited :)
Don Johnson 28-july-11
Intergalactic travel reveals some kinks.
Man visited mars and left a sphinx.
Cydonia and Mesopotamia saw new futures borne.
The “Tower of Babel” and ancient technology…men mourn.
Was man’s “spirit world” formerly preserved on Mars?
Did “sons of God” once travel among the stars?
Egyptians learned to build sphinxes to provide for souls.
Their tradition, also, distantly reverenced afterlife’s goals.
The Tower of Babel…great technology…lost.
Travel through the heavens was stopped at great cost.
Many marvels, modern man cannot explain.
A sphinx on a distant planet, mysteries remain.
© Dane Smith-Johnsen
September 15, 2010
Attracting either scientific or popular area
Containing several hills in the region Cydonia
One of the images taken by Viking on 25th July
The name Cydonia drawn from classical antiquity.
The image with a seeming look of a human face,
Let loose the human imagination inborn base.
To look at a thing is different from seeing a thing
Until we see its beauty we don’t see anything.
A hill, nothing but a space created illusive reality
Resembling a human face, a logical fallacy
Wrong speculation, demon haunted world on Mars
Let the future tell us if it is a real play or farce.
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Fourth place win in:
Sphinx on Mars Contest
< sphinx ~ head
who ~ said
roman ~ God
without ~ bod
shadow ~ illusion
causing ~ confussion
butte ~ mesa
I ~ guess ~ a
transition ~ zone
with-out ~ phone
oh ~ my ~ cydonia
don't ~ all ~ just ~ wanna ~ ya
Entry For
Carolyn Devonshire's
Sphinx Head On Mars Contest
G.L. All
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