OTI:twelve poems and notes:8/29/16

Open To Interpretation

Light Years Away

So,
You finally hear from someone,
Say, a hundred light years away.
Then, what are going to do,
Say hello,
And have your
Children's children's children's...
Listen for you?

I've Learned How

I've learned how not to wait...
I just don't ask.

Stars Are Black

Stars are black
Their fossil light
Delivered to us
Encased in space.

Immediate

Can you be immediate?
Ever?
Without delay?
Never.

Photon

Miss a starlight photon?
Hop on your
Faster than light futon.

Matter

It's a jealous matter.
All of that
Can't be energetically
Me,
Or you.

Peril

Impaled by peril?
Oh,
For many,
The contingency
Is to sit somewhere pretty.
For solace,
Ride the bus
With the rest of us.

Grandstanders

No worry for the grandstanders'
Grandstands,
Or the hands that feed them...
They're empty.

Salt

Sometimes, sometimes,
It's like it's raining salt
And I'm a snail.

Antenna

These are my eyes
You know
On the ends of these long antennas.

Cupid

Cupid!
You're a snail!

Midnight Sun

Red volcanic rubble
Crunched beneath their feet,
And Nemo's caravan
Reached the rim of Origin,
A shallow crater,
Ancient as the Northern Black Dragon Flight.
Below they could see the Stage,
A wide round disc of dark red stone at Origin's center. 
From the disc outwards,
Up the sloping crater walls,
Black monolith pillars spiraled,
Counter spiraled,
To Origin's rim.
When the Dragons come
And perch astride each
Their ancestral pillar,
Origin becomes
A red and black flower,
The Midnight Sun.
Nemo motioned his crew forward.

DolphinWords

Notes: Light Years...yep, that's what's in the works...reference SETI...I've Learned How...in truth, I haven't...seems everything is in waiting at times!...I've Learned How, Stars Are Black, Immediate, Matter, Photon...more of the 'Black Tombstones' refrain...Peril...I never know how to respond when I see the posts of Peril...'sitting pretty'...not knowing how to respond is often the seed of a poem...Grandstanders...reference the Kaepernick brewhaha...Salt...'salt on a wound'...Antenna...reference Garden Snails...Cupid...reference Garden Snail 'love darts'...ral...Midnight Sun...Nemo and his crew at the Northern Reach...oh, the morning browse turned up 'pseudocraters'!

:)

DavidDavid