Wednesday's Verse - Waiting for Judgement
This week’s verse moves from a futuristic urban fantasy horror verse to a sci-fantasy verse about a new colony awaiting its fate. It is taken from 366 Days of Poetry, a
collection of mixed-genre poetry released in 2016.
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Waiting for Judgement
Here
we stand,
the
land sweeps away,
falls
from the mountains,
becomes
the plains.
The
ragged plumes rise
of
the forested hills
that
descend to the beach front,
where
the waves never still.
We
wait for the judgement.
It’s
not ours to say
if
the planet can be home to us,
or
if we’re to be sent away.
That
decision lies
with
the creatures here before,
the
dragons who came to our aid,
who
answered when we called.
So
we wait for their judgment,
while
the pirate ship’s hot corpse
smokes,
and slowly blackens,
a
memorial of sorts
to
the first piece of teamwork
between
our species wrought
in
defense of a planet
from
the raiders’ dreadnought.
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You can find the first two poetry
collections at the links below - although there are plans to reissue them with
more genre-appropriate covers in the future. The third collection will be
released later in the year.
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