Poetry Fishbowl Open!

[ysabetwordsmith]

The Poetry Fishbowl is now CLOSED.  Thank you all for your enthusiasm.

Starting now, the Poetry Fishbowl is open!  Today's theme is "military science fiction."  I will be checking this page periodically throughout the day. When people make suggestions, I'll pick some and weave them together into a poem ... and then another ... and so on. I'm

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[thesilentpoet]

Work was surprisingly busy today, so if it's not too late...

Had the Space Race taken any different turns, how might it have affected how we fought the Cold War? And really, any subsequent wars?

In 2025, we successfully colonized Mars. By 2075, the colony is utterly decimated. What happened? And what might it mean for those left behind?

A child finds an alien in his/her backyard. His/her parent just happens to be [major world leader of choice].

We fired first.

Poem

[ysabetwordsmith]

Your prompt about a world leader's child finding an alien hitched up with recent discussions of Judaism and older discussions of why Israel is so violently protective of its turf. The result is the free-verse poem "The Law Was," a very brief first-contact encounter about how human behavior is so often an expression of human history.

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