AWEN ONLINE ISSUE ONE: SPACE AND TIME
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SPACE AND TIME
By DJ Tyrer Length - breadth - a little bit of depth; Time and space - another place; Higher dimension - too much to mention! COMET By DS Davidson Comet ice evaporates in a mighty tail A portent of doom to observers below The space debris becomes harbinger The destroyer of worlds. NEW WORLD By DJ Tyrer A pure, unsullied planet, No sign of humanity. The settlers are approaching, How safe can it be? PROBE By DS Davidson Hubcap-shaped probe detaches Descends from the silver mother craft Enters the atmosphere below A chromatic fireball shooting Observing all that passes below. WILL WE EVER LEARN? By DJ Tyrer Born in the nightmare of World War 2 In the explosive launch of the V2 The space age began in the Cold War East versus West in space, keeping score An age of oppression and War on Terror Then we fled Earth which was now in error But authority followed those that had fled And on distant worlds were dissidents dead Technology progressed mostly for conflict Planet obliterators new ends can inflict Further out into the night folk continued to flee Always a refrain of "please, leave us be!" And as for a new heaven we continue to yearn One really must wonder when will we learn? MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE By DS Davidson To he who shall read this, bid attend! To a cautionary tale of a race's genocide. I, who write this, am a V'nhorr, The last of my kind - I shall die alone. My race once alone dwelt upon a small world At peace, unknown to others, and they to us. Then in a storm of smoke and flame, descending Came brazen pods of strange explorers. Then the K'shrrn came... The K'shrrn, mighty race of war, desired To conquer our world for a mineral: Spironium. Descending sheets of flame turned cities to ash And unyielding warriors filled fields with gore. They slaughtered all, old and young, male and female, Lest we should oppose them and their mines. A stand was made but our terrified soldiers Stood no chance against the terrible K'shrrn. Madness and death overcame... Now I commit to the void of space This message in a fragile container As a reminder of our terrible fate And as a warning to you all. Such is the way of the world today For the cause of greed innocents must die Soon the death squads shall uncover me And with my death the V'nhorr shall die. Message ends. GRYPHON By Nick Armbrister The Gryphons once formed a mighty fleet, a fleet of fragile and deadly craft half alive and half machine, ready to do their masters' work. Now there were only twelve, all of the others fell to earth like blazing comets in one war or another since the Third Shining. Each craft is alive in its own little world. These are the last of the long line of deadly flying machines, all of which now cease to exist. The Gryphons see and sense everything, barometric pressure, radiation, temperature and more. Their deadly cargo can be of viral strains that smell of roses and deathly mutagenic rains from hell. They are given names like Astra, Zelus and Kesef. Names of heroes long since gone but their memory lives on in these twelve little craft.
COUNTDOWN
By Aeronwy Dafies Ticking seconds passing Passing swiftly like light Infinite regression of Eternity. Counting down forever Forever marking off Passing fleeting moments Swiftly. Counting down to Eternity. |
REALITY
By JC Hartley Boredom is primal watching the inmates Of client planet tributary four They eat sleep screw and mutilate themselves With clockwork timing Nothing can be learned Except our ability to hate It's a small step from wish list to death list. U.F.O. By Nick Armbrister Strange hazy shapes in the rainy sky, dancing lights in the dark of night, who knows what they are? Impossible accelerations and crazy manoeuvers in a second. no plane can do those. It's the element of the unknown, so scary and dangerous. People tell of strange beings coming in the night, of sharp objects and needles and terrible pain. Nightmare dreams that shatter their lives and the terror of falling asleep. All this frightens people even those with an open mind. Everyone should look at the sky with caution on those dark cloudy nights. STAR WARS By DS Davidson Vast star cruisers rove the spacelanes Obliterating dissidents Weapons a light year long dominate Shattering binary stars. LUNACY By Aeronwy Dafies The pale moon rises Marking time Marking time Beautifully Silver globe Wondrous night light Pure divinity. KIA By Nick Armbrister Oh, mighty planet of fire and ice you are the bounty of life and of all things ever made. You belong in all worlds especially ours where the frozen water at your poles and the fire at your middle heart make all life yours to control. The creatures of fire swim in seas of molten lava while the beings of ice glide over the infinites frozen lakes. All of your planet is a crystal ball of energy that is life. Now mankind reaches out and comes to Kia for the first time. In the year that went unrecorded Man came and fell in love with your many multifaceted ways. He has sailed on lakes of lava and tunneled the icy wastelands. He has found types of life that he never thought existed and he was amazed to see them there and then. TIME AND SPACE By DJ Tyrer Awful children, how terrible! Socrates, 399 BC. Sex 'n' drugs 'n' rock 'n' roll, Kids today are out of control. Settlers complain of disobedient youth That they thought they'd left behind. Wherever you go, whatever the date, Things don't change! STARLIGHT By Aeronwy Dafies Light of a thousand years Like a thousand eyes Seeing through all-time Their gaze lighting today. SNOW TO COVER THE WORLD By JC Hartley Nine miles to World's End And life proceeds as normal We're nearly over our Guilt about the dinosaurs We see the morning city But getting there takes too long No-one seems to die A face from the past On each street corner In the frozen lake Indefinite reflections Sometimes a new traveller Steps out of the western night Full of enthusiasm All too soon comes the snow face On the eastern horizon The burning pillar Any day now we begin |
