Dance of the Dinosaur
tripping the light jurassic
show me your spine
and I’ll show you mine
I’ll lead, you perform
turn my cold blood warm
assert our dominion
at the Cretaceous cotillion
bow with colossal rhythm
and a smile, jagged and winsome
you accept
a four-legged two-step
claws extend
we begin
and we dance like the asteroid is drawing near
shimmy as it enters the atmosphere
shake while the ground trembles
sing while the earth screams
waltz as all becomes smithereens
feel alive just one more time
a display both primal and divine
dancing in the falling dust
move our bones like they’re all that will be left of us
at last we collapse in exhausted satisfaction
a dance of the ages to prepare for extinction
primed for bury, we erode
to let the next era know we roamed
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Silence
I don’t remember the day the world ended. But I do remember the day I noticed. That photo was it, but I did not know what it meant until I sat in my darkened bathroom, staring at the newly developed film. The street was neither empty, nor abandoned. It was dead. The colours of the flowers wrapped in that red ribbon caught my eye, and as I crouched to take that photo, I could hear only the lonely silence of a graveyard after dark.
By Alexander McEvoy6 days ago in Fiction
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Great poem! Congratulations 🎉
Wonderful poem! Congratulations on Runner-up!!! 🥳
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This is a delightful read! Very cleverly done! Congrats on the Runner-up win!
Well done.