November 23, 2007 at 8:49 am (Poetry, atomic weapons, simulated warfare, space knights, uranium)
The SkyPath Crusade
A Science Fiction Epic Poem
Copyright © 2007 by Daniel Schilling
All Rights Reserved
Chapter Seven
From far beyond the lunar walls
Where Princess Shelah sat
A Klaron Cruiser took some scans
To find where Jim was at
The Pirate ship had given slip
At half past one O’clock
The crafty team had left the stream
Behind magnetic rock
*
The Cruiser sent a coded pulse
And talked to head command
The closest port would send support
With ev’ry ship at hand
Some twenty space ships filled the skies
With ten more on their way
While time was killed the void was filled
With ev’ry kind of ray
*
But Klaron rays could never phaze
The rare metallic ore
That floated past their quarry on
The sea that has no shore
Their pirate foe proceeded slow
At twenty thousand knots
Which left them undetected by
The Klaron astrobots
*
The Brigand ship was just a blip
On Klaron radar screens
The spot displayed could else be made
By floating lima beans
They made no wake for safety’s sake
They dodged each grain of dust
Their chains were stowed within the hold
To keep from shedding rust
*
At ten to nine they made a line
Straight to the nearest base
The bays were bare, the cruisers there
Were still out giving chase
The Klaron crews which could not lose
Were eager for the fray
They did not know their deadly foe
Was also tracking prey
*
At ten o’ two a note came through
To all the Klaron craft
They thought (it said) the Pirates fled
Along the ether draft
It told them wait ‘till ten O eight
If news would be the same
But when the time was on the dime
No message ever came
*
Tomorrow for that Klaron base
Would not forever come
They could not dodge a brief barrage
Of rich Uranium
The pirates knew what it could do
If launched by catapult
Their little stock encased in rock
Had given quite the jolt
