God Sneezed!



On the other side of Mars they bided their time,
silently they concocted dark devious plans,
red dust dreams of conquering Mother Earth's blue scenes.

They were quite lucky to avoid humanity's
satellites; the quiet processed information,
as they calmly patrolled mankind's precious jewel,
cool time and deft space were twisted in their favour
as they crash landed their ship which had been their home
now for the last twenty seven generations.

With tired flakes of yellow silicon structured skin,
and hard curved lenses, they set their plans in motion,
so close to repairs they danced dreams of victory
along the stream of technological garbage
they had scattered wildly across the barren plains.

The day had finally arrived for them to fit
final pieces into the jigsaw chaotic
metal that once had cooed and fed them their purpose.

Too busy with fixing and staring at the blue-
green goal to notice what was speeding towards them
from the opposite direction, a meteor;
as old as the first whimper to explode bright light,
spied them and zeroed in coldly~ X marks the spot.

A cosmic joke, the unpredictability
of life and death, how easily fate toys with us,
God had sneezed and a boulder smashed their existence.

Under a starry sky lovers watch the heavens
and wonder to themselves if other life's out there.
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Submitted on June 04, 2010

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Scheme XXX XAXBXC XABXX XXD XXBXX XDX CB
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 1,282
Words 223
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 3, 6, 5, 3, 5, 3, 2

Ian Sawicki

Ian Sawicki has been writing poetry for over twenty years. He is a Manchester born poet, who has dedicated his life to exploration and composition of poetry. His work reflects the many great influential experiences of his life, the pain, the pleasure combined to create new exciting poetry. If anyone is interested in my books then please visit my lulu storefront. All artwork on these books is by my own hand. http://stores.lulu.com/chasingtheday more…

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