Prompt: Write a poem that initially gives the
impression that it is going to be a joke, that something funny is going to take
place. A twist, allow the poem to travel
into a sad or dark place so that the reader is surprised where the poem ends
up.
Revision
There’s something strange
Coming out of Uranus.
Looks like a cloud of gas.
Great balls of fire!
It’s an incoming asteroid!
The Third Rock disappeared
In a cloud of steam.
“Start over,” He said.
“Those naked apes were worse
Than the dinosaurs.
If I hadn’t stopped them
They would have trashed the place
The way they did Mars.”
You write good
ReplyDeleteLike a poet should!!