Poem -
First Contact
The Dark Forest
Universally speaking what are the odds,
A signal received by another race.
Intelligent and extraordinarily advanced,
Otherworldly without a human face.
Cold malevolence fills alien minds,
Perceiving everything as a threat.
For any signal betrays its location,
Swiftly eradicated without regret.
The universe is a dark forest,
Where any slight sound made.
Is heard by hidden hunters,
Whom others do silently evade.
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'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.'
'Be quiet...or they'll hear you.'
'𝙄𝙛 𝙄 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙮 𝙮𝙤𝙪, 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙗𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨?'
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Hey Shaun. This is cool. It remind me of different alien films. Snippets of your lines create that. Short but dramtic piece. I think they are the best lol. I like the dialogue at the end. Thats clever!
Hey Pratibha and thank you kindly for stopping by.
But first things first and more importantly, after arriving home feeling tired after work, my spirits soared for a certain package with a certain book inside greeted me on the doormat.
Looks great and perviewed a few pages inside and was not disappointed.
Will read in depth later this evening and my lunchbreak tomorrow.
Amazon review be posted by tomorrow night (if I can put the book down).
That might take another day for them to process, for it has in the past.
Anyway, I hope you and family are doing fine and keeping snug and warm.
I also got a pm from your good self and will reply later to.
And glad you enjoyed this bundle of fun poem and that pic is the deadly droplet scene from the second book, which features in The Remembrance Of Earth's Past trilogy, by Chinese author Liu Cixin.
Book one is titled The Three Body Problem
Book two is titled The Dark Forest.
Book three is titled Death's End.
Three Body Problem season one is on Netflix.
Season two (The Dark Forest) will feature the deadly droplet scene.
And season three (Death's End ) debut is some time away.
All of them scary stuff.
Let's hope we make it till Christmas!
Thanks again for your unwavering support and kind words.
Shaun x
Hey Shaun great to hear you got the book!
oh i dont know this show. I will check it out, thanks for the recommendation. I love sci fi! Enjoyed the poems so far. I have messaged you. Chat later Pratibha x
I wonder .... hmmm ... is there anyone out there? And if there is ... Will they ignore us? Will they befriend us? Maybe they'll eat us. But perhaps they are so tiny they get swallowed by a dog ...as in what happened in Hitchikers guide to the galaxy. Who knows? We've certainly made enough cosmic noise to be noticed! Your words present to us a menacing feel. I enjoyed reading your poem, Shaun x
great poem
Lovely lovely write. Cheers.
Love anything to do with this subject so I'm sold. We'll written Shaun. Of course there is life out there somewhere but humans are waaaaaayyyyy toooooooo egotistical to ever really entertain the idea. I'm a big believer we were seeded by aliens in the first place lol. X