A Poem for National Poetry Month: Sing a Song of Colony

Today's poem. Yes, there was a poem, yesterday, but it didn't make it onto the blog. Things were a bit busy. It will be in the next poetry anthology, though, so keep an eye out for that towards the end of this year, or the beginning of next. In the meantime, I played with the start of an old nursery rhyme, and wondered what form it might find in a future where star travel and colonisation was a regular 'thing'.

Sing a Song of Colony

Sing a song of sixpence,

sing a song of flying high

sing a song of airfares

of dreams up in the sky.

Sing a song of pennies

of dollars not well spent

sing a song of dreams lost

of hulls swift-breached and rent.

Sing a song of credits

of cash in bits and bytes,

of journeys made at long last

of planetfall and sight.

Sing a song of new homes

of colonies ‘neath stars

people making new lives

from our Earth travelled far.