Tag: sci-fi

Trouble.

It'(s) burning

Hard, smoke

Thick.

Bumbled,

Clicked off

And out

Dead.

Full power

Charged

Out into,

The Ways

Hurr[ied],

Growls move [me] forward

[Into] trouble.

So far this has been the most difficult page to turn into something. There’s just too much of of the specifics of Starship Troopers in here to make a good space opera poem out of. Though a poem about super models or drug addicts would be easy enough with some of these words. The ‘full power’ in the first line immediately made me think of Picard’s ‘Engage’ and Kirk’s ‘Ahead’ but getting the words to take those first two anywhere were hard to come by. I ended up with oblique references to a heavily armored ship traversing the void pursued by some unknown, perhaps supernatural, menace.

I guess I(‘)m

Empty, alone

Stopped

Far out

In the light

Behind the stars

As far away…

The last One

Sent careless(ly)

Over

Hear, blink, pick

Up I never landed.

With red around

The Others

At least

I could quit.

Concentrate on

Anywhere.

Start rampaging,

Without fear,

Hitting at doubt.

Rattled, and

Half paralyzed.