The Writer Reads Flash Fiction – “The Swarm on Idragor Five” – Ep.18
On some colonies pest control is more drastic…and urgent…than on others.
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Wednesday's Verse - Sing a Song of Colony
This week’s verse moves from a fantasy verse about monsters in a mine to a science fiction verse about future colonists. It is taken from Another 365 Days of Poetry , a collection of mixed-genre poetry released in 2019. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 in sight. Sing a song of new homes of colonies ‘neath stars people making new lives who from our Earth have travelled far. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can find the first tw...