[stylist] Poem - "Arrival" - First Draft

[Myrna Badgerow]

I too like this one and I am not into alien anything lol 
But the image of humans and aliens sharing time and thoughts sure does bring a smile and a deeper message I feel in your words I feel. 
Just my interpretationof course. 
Well done. 
Myrna


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> On May 6, 2014, at 5:00 PM, William L Houts <lukaeon at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hey Blinks,
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> Just finished a new poem.  Unlike much of my work, the language isn't very dense and should parse fairly smoothly.  It's about the arrival of alien guests and what they might have to say to us.  I like it;  your mileage may vary.
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> --Bill
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> When they come, they'll come light hand,
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> their fingers like vines across void,
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> toting no blasters, forcing no gall
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> in our tender pink throats. Water, yes:
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> water they'll want, enough to bathe, enoughto drink,
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> enough for laughing relief.
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> We thought you mad, they'll say, we thought
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> you'd scream us down in blasted ruin.
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> We risked a dive into vapor, we thought.
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> we chanced our sires, we chanced our get;
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> you've let us land, pilgrims hilarious mild.
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> We weep for your troubles, and can solve
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> one or two, we think.The angels you pray for
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> don't ride in our star-cars, we sorrow to say.
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> But grant us a cup now, of water or milk,
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> and we'll talk.You'll tell us your tale and we'll
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> tell ours: failure-sharp, and troubled as broken gods.
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> copyright William L. Houts 2014
> United States of America
> All Rights Reserved
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