The Lights in the Night Sky Haiku
Meteor showers
Nightly cosmic light shows
Lighting up the sky
The Lights in the Night Sky Haiku
Meteor showers
Nightly cosmic light shows
Lighting up the sky
The Lights in the Night Sky Haiku
Meteor showers
Nightly cosmic light shows
Lighting up the sky
The Lights in the Night Sky Haiku
Meteor showers
Nightly cosmic light shows
Lighting up the sky
The Lights in the Night Sky Haiku
Meteor showers
Nightly cosmic light shows
Lighting up the sky
The Lights in the Night Sky Haiku
Meteor showers
Nightly cosmic light shows
Lighting up the sky
The meteor was coming near
But little Robbie had no fear
His parents knew earth was DOA
But he tried to argue, to save the day.
He said, “Dear Space Rock, don’t I have rights
My life and liberty are in your sights
I like puppies and cats, and elephants too
You’re coming for me, but what did I do?”
Robbie’s Dad said "son, a rock can’t feel
There’s no moral part to which you can appeal
It doesn’t matter how nice you are
We’re at the mercy of a shooting star."
The meteor missed, the earth was fine
But still it was the end of the line
The ideologues came for Robbie’s Dad
He tried to argue, his naivete was sad.
The ideologues had a one-track mind
It was year one, time to leave the past behind
No freedom, no rights, that was the deal
They just laughed at Robbie's father's spiel
When criminals or ideologues, have you in their sights
Say goodbye to logic, and to your rights
Look around, the dominos fall
Can't argue with a rock, can't charge at a wall.
I am a lone tree,
An ancient sentinel rooted deep
Whispering songs of the past on the breeze.
I am a stick of dynamite, a fuse burning low
An explosion of feelings, just waiting to blow.
I am a bearer of bad news,
Hive mind of demons.
Thought they would fade in the rearview, the demons
But they still cling to me, pale and askew.
I swore I knew myself,
But I didn't know the mirror could lie.
I wrote a hundred pages but burned them all,
I saw them ignite and die.
I thought all my problems- they would stay behind
As I became a meteor;
A streak in the night,
A terrifying sight.
Clouds rushing to embrace; my body dissolving,
Leaving no trace.
As you wish, always.
I still remember the first night we hung out,
It was only the last time there was a full moon.
We talked and talk as the minutes turned to hours,
I gave you my effort, my lore and we worked through the clamors.
The sky glistened, a silver lining gleam.
We talked outside your pickup and for once I finally felt clean.
I looked up at the sky and saw a meteor shower,
And wished this moment could last forever.
That was really my only endeavor.
a moon free dark sky
glowing ionized gas trails
meteors at peak
red hot meteor
she glows as she falls to earth
we pretend normal
O, how will we ever cope
The dreaded meteor is on its way
The weather mavens say ‘No hope’
that those dinosaurs will live another day
What will we tiny little mammals do
without our super-sized friends
btw: They’re also predicting an ‘Ice Age’ soon
Whoa is us, inevitable is our end
But wait, what’s this I hear
Wooly mammoth and Mr. Mastodon
Grown large of a sudden
Surely we too can overcome our fear
*****************
Millenia later, Charles Darwin wrote that all species must
change their ways from time to time...
To survive, we adjust
having accumulated too much ‘climate convenience rust’
The crescent moons of the auburn sky
The acid rain clouds dance, purple, by
The air it stings as I respirate
A strange howling noise as the storms berate
This tempestuous land, a million clicks from home
My genes robust; Seventh Generation Clone
As I stand here longing for the ship's repair
To accelerate, under robot's care
For the time is short as the signal's down
Only two more sols. We MUST leave the ground
A hundred brothers and sisters too
We escaped our home as the lucky few
In our AI ships under proton power
Left in final days of the meteor shower
With just enough time to load species galore
Under Ark Project VII, just like Noah, once more.
With hope we can find an Eden like Earth
Only this time we'll treasure, for all she is worth
Your stars are falling gracefully,
but mine are crashing.
Your resentment is painfully justified.
But my love is too.
thoughts swarm the universe
the world I created in my own head
where you read me your verse
and I add another
a world where I don’t have to wait
for your stars to follow mine
Or some sort of fairytale fate
because we’re effortlessly aligned
I tell you
“my thoughts are like a meteor shower”
you tell me
“meteors crash”
But they’re also radiant
creating a beam that’s hard to ignore
so I don’t mind if we crash
even if you embed your stars into my mind
The meteors crashed tonight
but they didn't catch my wish
cause I'm still crying in my room
praying somehow i get to you.
Just let me dream of you again.
Bless my eyes with the scenery of you smiling;
oh its the never-ending pain.
How your eyes turn to crescents
and glisten so bright;
the melodious sound of your laugh,
Is all I'm missing tonight.
How do i endure and witness you falling for someone else?
Tears dwell, is it happiness or my heart breaking in silence?
It's the night of meteor shower again,
but we're still walking different lanes.
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