Sleeping giants

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Sleeping satellites hide their threats in their lazy orbital drift

Winking charmingly  disarming 

Oblivious to the fact that one small change in trajectory 

Will bring catastrophic catechism

Hypnotically the thought drifts away as quickly as it came 

Back to oblivion.

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INKSTAIN's picture

Exceptionally beautiful and

Exceptionally beautiful and profound. I can relate.. 

SSmoothie's picture

Awwwwww thanks inky! 

Awwwwww thanks inky! 


Don't let any one shake your dream stars from your eyes, lest your soul Come away with them! -SS    

"Well, it's love, but not as we know it."

S74rw4rd's picture

This is very profound.  Have

This is very profound.  Have you seen the film, "Melancholia"?  It deals with much of the same thing.  Your poem is better.


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SSmoothie's picture

No i havent seen it. I shall

No i havent seen it. I shall look it up. Thanks. 


Don't let any one shake your dream stars from your eyes, lest your soul Come away with them! -SS    

"Well, it's love, but not as we know it."

S74rw4rd's picture

It is about the collision of

It is about the collision of a "rogue" planet with the earth.  There are few special effects, because the story does not require them, but the collision itself looks very realistic and, in its own way, poetic.


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