General Poetry posted June 7, 2021


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fiction stranger than truth?

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by giraffmang

A princess of mars,
The stars my destination
To witness the naked sun
At the restaurant at the end of the universe.

A stranger in a strange land
Lacks total recall
As the left hand of darkness
Brings forth the forever war.

Something wicked this way comes,
Borne on butterflies' wings.
Setting us a new foundation
For a brave new world?

I make the stand,
For I am legend,
But is there time enough for love?

A rendezvous with rama upon animal farm
Results in a wrinkle of time
From 20000 leagues under the sea, where the man in the high castle
Is but a mote in God's eye.

Do androids dream of electric sleep
When they reach childhood's end?
And The illustrated man condemns
The island of Doctor Moreau.

The gods themselves will witness,
From out of the silent planet
Where the moon is a harsh mistress indeed,
The end of eternity...

And alas, Babylon will never be seen by
The demolished man.



Poem of the Month contest entry

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Aldous Huxley, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, Arthur C. Clark, Philip K. Dick, Ursula K. Le Guin, Joe Haldeman, George Orwell, Jules Verne, Madeleine L'Engle, Alfred Bester, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Douglas Adams, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Ray Bradbury, H. G. Wells, Richard Matheson, Stephen King, C. S. Lewis.

And a few words of my own....
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