STARSHIP SATOR AREPOSTARSHIP SATOR AREPO
It was the year two thousand eighty-five
when we boarded Starship Sator Arepo.
Astronauts are we, seeking adventures in the cosmic seas
while looking for rogue planets beyond the Milky Way.
3... 2... 1...Liftoff!
We hurled through space at the cosmic speed limit
traveling light years beyond our galaxy.
On day 35 it happened—a sea of stardust,
then...
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Categories:
science fiction, 12th grade, journey, science
Form: Free verse
Changing TrainsI used to ride the train
from school to home and back,
every other weekend,
in an old Pullman car
built in the nineteen-thirties.
It smelled like my grandma’s house—
a little musty, like time
had curled up and fallen asleep
in the cushions.
Too warm, always,
but the clickety-clack over
tie bars and rail frogs
lulled me to sleep,
rocking me gently
as if the...
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Categories:
science fiction, childhood, memory, nostalgia, travel,
Form: Free verse
as we metamorphosedean meat-mad @impossible3
rob'in'/hood;
all get free lunches 1week
says impossible3 need2learn: responsibility
clean: building lab/gym 3decas old
when meat-looks mattered
laze lock/chains (nokey)
dust!dirt!choke!cough!
meat reflex: disgust
hands make meat motions oldstyle
wax on/off, lolz
2of3 sees button red/blue
meat response: excitement
1of3: worried @meatspeak
3of3: trouble/warn/no
2of3: meat-weak presses red/blue quick
3beepLOUD
meat reflex: alarm/worried/fear
floorMOVE
meatmoves: 2of3falls
WATER (w/out floor)
meat word: stagnant/gross/nasty
meat memory: ocean/sea/brine/salt/brackish
2of3 splash/swim/paddle
1of3 reach/grab/help
2of3: pain/blood/agony
1of3 recall:...
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Categories:
science fiction, bereavement, change, death, moving
Form: Free verse
WHAT WE THINK WE KNOWWhat we think we know
From the history book as we grow
About how we become humans
Might just be a grain of sand in a desert
Religion taught of the creation
A good will of a bigger being
Who from dust mold, better carves
The most intelligent thing on Earth.
Early scientists say we evolve
From ape-like creatures, bushy hairs
Transformed from round...
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Categories:
science fiction, 12th grade, christian, creation,
Form: Free verse
burial borne
on ship’s voyage cosmos-deep
a captain’s life was laid to sleep
wrapped in linen mummy-style
and thrown into the stellar keep
he floated on in endless black
...
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Categories:
science fiction, analogy, death, fantasy, science
Form: Rubaiyat
Sesame Dodoonce as dead as a dodo, what a crazy El Mundo
taking the wheel another time, life on its rodeo Segundo
a DNA cocktail of Big Bird and Bert's Nicobar pigeon
dodos with canary plumes and rainbow beaks jaywalk again...
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Categories:
science fiction, animal, imagination, science, science
Form: Clerihew
Circa 1886 Wealth and Influence
Categories:
science fiction, character, guitar, marriage, money,
Form: Ballad
AnaphoraCouple coding : she combined the two first names to
create one name. Fans of this character often loved
these two people.
While their characters were hot: they would often
tour signing autographs,
making a lot of money selling merchandise and
meeting there fans.Key frames in animation often
bridge the gap: between keyframes. It's a term called
inbetweens. The...
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Categories:
science fiction, business, film, music, myth,
Form: Bio
Frozen Side of The SunTurning over in a ruffled bed,
stark red numbers sear 4 a.m. into bloodshot corneas.
Nothing but darkness creeps through threadbare curtains, frozen in place.
A desolate silence becomes deafening, as birdsong no longer crescendos—
what would have been the breaking of dawn.
It's been six years now since our brightest star was thrown out of orbit,
exposing the frozen side...
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Categories:
science fiction, dark, gothic, natural disasters,
Form: Free verse
Hair Clogged The Magical DrainAs Far as our Eyes will see,
In a Vast, and seemingly
endless World
to the Future’s greatest of Extents,
in a little Hut,
Hidden in a Swamp,
Lies little Old
Ms.
Garratha.
with the few who Reside
alongside.
They Eventually found
a Beautiful spring,
during their driest of seasons,
although seasoning doesn’t matter --
when It’s Wet twenty-four --
Seven.
The Decision to have a whiff,
without a -- Sniffer, may Just...
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Categories:
science fiction, animal, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Codons of Contempt: A Crime Against Empathy
We came not for conquest,
but for containment—
though conquest is what happens
when containment itches beneath the skin
like sulfur spores in a sealed lung.
They had the secret.
Not gold, not weapons, not prophecy—
but language that healed.
Real language—
not poetry, not prayer,
but syntax of cells.
Their infants spoke in codons.
Their trees rustled in protein sequences.
Their dead decomposed into algorithms
that rewrote the...
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Categories:
science fiction, death, fear, horror, myth,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Playing God
An eerie wind blows through the decaying bushes on the outskirts,
while a rusted door sways on its broken hinges.
The smell of ozone lingers from thunder cracking in the distance,
as heavy rain unleashes upon the abandoned prairie.
A broken soul wanders the expanse,
searching for any solace in...
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Categories:
science fiction, adventure, corruption, future, poetry,
Form: Prose
An example of understatementWhat if the orbiting earth were to unexpectedly run into a brick wall
speeding through the galaxy one night in the middle of Fall?
Can you imagine the sounds of death, destruction, and annihilation
as Christchurch, New Zealand, crashes into the Atlanta Metro bus station?
I don’t think that that would be any fun ~ at all!
Bonus poem
She unexpectedly...
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Categories:
science fiction, dark, humor, natural disasters,
Form: Light Verse
Memento on the Moon
The Sea of Tranquility gives rise to a parasitic plague,
Colonizing mechanical machines grinding,
Robotic arms frantically fabricating an inhospitable habitat.
Plumes of blackened smoke drift off into zero gravity—
A profuse profanity birthing intergalactic implosions.
Forfeited steel domes replace a once-pristine satellite,
Whilst humanity, like vultures, journeys to...
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Categories:
science fiction, conflict, humanity, poetry, science,
Form: Ekphrasis
Memento on the MoonA boy from a distant galaxy does wander,
calls home on his intergalactic transponder,
stares into the black where countless twinkles swirled,
at an unremarkable nearby world.
That planet is, of all signs of life, long devoid,
unless, by geology, it has been destroyed.
More fascinating than just any rock or pebble,
peering through his brand new spacesuit's bubble,
lies before...
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Categories:
earth, moon, science fiction,
Form: Couplet
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