A Literary Alien
For The Vocal Extraterrestrial Challenge
Another piece of silliness for the Vocal Extraterrestrial Challenge that you can read about here
The Prompt
Write a rhyming poem about the first thing you would introduce to an alien on Earth.
The music is "Silver Machine" by Hawkwind
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An Alien Landed In My Back Garden
Their English Was Good, They Asked For Some Culture
I Showed Them My First Book, Said Is It Hard, Man?
I Said It's Quite Easy, They Said Indulge Us
The Alien Perused All Of The Pages
They Said This Is Twisted, Your Mind Is So Dark
I Said To Read This Will Never Take Ages
Here's Some Beautiful Poetry, I Remarked
The Alien Looked At The Book And Then Smiled
This Is A Beauty, Will You Let Me Keep It?
Of Course, Take It And Read, You Bibliophile
The Alien Left In His Silver Rocket
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About the Creator
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Comments (5)
Clever and well-done, Mike! π€ I love this take!
Huh, who knew they love to read, lol! This was fantastic!
To paraphrase Mae West, "Is that a rocket in your pocket or are you just happy to see me." Alien's response: "No ma'am, it's a book I'm wanting to read. My rocket's over there. (And I could hardly fit it in my pocket.)" Aliens are still somewhat naive when it comes to our more randy genres of humor. (See what I did there?)
Wonderful alien poem!!! Loved it!!!
Great! I just published an alien poem as well!