I spied a young illegal immigrant lying in the street
badly beat
with bloody feet
asylum dreams crushed into the concrete
with nothing to eat
his goal incomplete
his hopes in full defeat
with nowhere to retreat
he quietly died there in the heat
Many Moons
A Blue moon
A Snow moon
A Waning moon
A Wolf moon
A Black moon
A Wet moon
A Worm moon
A New moon
A Flower moon
A Hunter’s moon
A Thunder moon
A Blood moon
A Cold moon
A Fading moon
Humans with moon madness
Coyotes howling at the moon
The first man on the moon
Moon pies
Moon eyes
Moon over Miami
Moon shot
Moon rabbit
Mayan Moon goddesses
Moon mythology
Moon Glow
Moons of Mars
“Lunacy” and “lunatic” come from the Roman goddess of the Moon – Luna
A Crescent moon
Moon beams
The Man in the moon
Flight
Icarus flew too close to the sun and his wings melted, but mankind’s desire to fly through the ages withstood mythologies warning. Tales of the old gods slipped into oblivion and were translated into technology… opening the door for new gods to worship.
All powerful Thoth, the Ibis God, gave way to airplanes and spaceships…the spawn of the transformation and worshipped by mortals who love flight. The natural world shifted and birds (god’s messengers) shared the skies with machines.
Mankind’s lust for flight takes each spaceship further into the cosmos in an endless search for the furthest limits of universes.
Eternity
Eternity has teased the galaxies since the dawn of time, hinting at a false permanence among the stars, only to disappoint. Cosmic things keep changing.
Universal chaos is a constant in oxygen-deprived deep space where civilizations struggle to emerge among the primordial planets, with dreams of eternal bliss.
There is no end, and no beginning in eternity. It just is. A state of inter-galactic flux that favors no species. All struggle to survive while searching the heavens and praying to ancient gods among the constellations for immortality. Eternity.
Stellar souls sing songs of heaven, vainly courting eternity with diverse beliefs.
The BB Gun
Christmas morning.
Eight-year old Tony couldn’t wait to go outside and play with his favorite present, a BB gun. Mom and Dad gave him a quick lecture about gun safety. After getting dressed he grabbed the cardboard target and BB gun on his way out to the backyard.
He set the target up on a tree and had fun shooting at it for an hour before his eyes wandered around looking for other targets.
A bird. Without thinking he shot it; dropped the gun, and ran over to it. Hot tears ran down his eyes as he buried the sparrow.
The Last Meal
Didymus stoically watched the soldiers run off with the last of his food and drink. The foul-smelling minions of Rome cackled insanely as they swaggered out of the cave. It would be the last time.
The same scene played out numerous times in the last year. Things were getting worse. To resist meant death. He, and other Christ-followers, were starving.
Christ preached peace telling his followers “Thou shall not kill.”
Unlike Christ, a simple man could only take so much. Didymus thought about the soldiers feasting on poisonous food that night.
He prayed for forgiveness after the last soldier left.
Truth and Consequence
When Harold saw the thing slithering out from beneath his bed he felt both vindicated and horrified.
His parents wouldn’t listen to him the first time he became aware of it’s presence. That’s why he wasn’t on the bed tonight and hiding behind his chest of drawers with a baseball bat.
When the thing slithered on top of his bed and wound itself around his pillow, he rushed out and smashed it into a bloody pulp!
The next morning.
“Have you seen a boa constrictor around?” his mother asked. “Billy next door said his pet boa escaped.”
“No,” he lied.
Leader of the Pack
The wolf hunkered down and watched two men set their deadly traps in the snow. He was the leader of a local wolf pack. It was his job to kill, or turn, intruders away.
He followed them back to their camp. That made two sets of trappers. Each unaware of the other. He turned back to the first camp he discovered. The trappers saw him. Shot and missed. Gave chase. The wolf led them right by where the other two men set traps.
One of his pursuers screamed as he stepped into a trap!
One less human to deal with.
Faulty Memory
The two government men asked Morris to tell his story again.
“I was trying to start my lawnmower when they suddenly appeared.”
“Who appeared?“
“The space men. Both had big black eyes and funny shaped heads with no mouths! They wanted me go with them.“
“No mouths? How did they ask you anything?”
A blank face. “I don’t remember…”
“Why don’t you go home and get some rest? You don’t look so good.
Morris walked out of the FBI building. He was confused. Uneasy.
“Do you think the human will talk with anyone else?” the alien asked when he left.
Who Am I?
I’ve been around since mankind crawled out of caves.
Since humans gathered in loose groups and wandered the land, I’ve followed their progress closely. Listening. Waiting for opportunities. Knowing early technology would aide my efforts pitting one civilization against another.
I’ve been dressed up as a point of pride and honor. I gather rage among people like harvesting grain in fields of fear. Sometimes, I’m the first reaction. Sometimes, I’m the last reaction.
I come cloaked in national piety and greed. A harbinger of death. Men have died because of me throughout eternity.
Who am I?
The answer is war.
The Creative Chronicles of Dave Stancliff 