February 7, 2008 at 11:16 am (Beowulf, Silly poetry, funny poems, funny poetry, humor, humour, science fiction, silly poems)
The SkyPath Crusade
A Science Fiction Epic Poem
Copyright © 2007 by Daniel Schilling
All Rights Reserved
Prologue
Oh, those were the days when boys were men
One thousand years ago
When the grass was green and the cows were clean
And the mountains filled with snow
When able knights rode back and forth
Across Earth’s dusty face
And the very best who passed a test
Went straight to outer space
*
Their ships were built from bygone days
With masts and sails so white
They knew no fear, they left our sphere
For passage through the night
On ether streams they sallied forth
Across the heavens’ breadth
On cratered moons and Martian dunes
To die a distant death
*
They fought with kings and cyber lords
When ancient worlds ran dry
With watchful sights on meteorites
They sparred across the sky
They learned to hide in comet dust
While fleeing from the fray
The only law within the jaw
Of half the Milky Way
*
But his’try now has passed them by
For very few returned
And tales told grew very old
While manuscripts were burned
But if our modern probes can spy
Their castles still on Mars
We’ll then be sure we never were
The first ones to the stars
May said,
February 14, 2008 at 2:31 am
that was such a good poem i wish that i could write something like that. : )
Jon Campbell said,
February 25, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Liked this poem a lot because it talked about space and questions what we really know about what is out there.