Floating free through the nebula realm
A conglomerate of dust and stars
Colors for sight to overwhelm
Eons beyond the fall of the quasars
Power held in white dwarfs
A reign of intense red heat
Exhaling it material as it morphs
Where hydrogen and helium meet
Small, dense and divine
The inhabitants bow and comply
The nebula is made to shine
No dust spec nor strong star dare defy
Yet at the dwarf's center core
Legend tells of a black hole
Some believe to be myth and lore
Yet others, the secret of its soul
An escape through time and space
Lay at the center of their crowned head
A portal for the past to erase
A new start, a chance to raise the dead
Whispered chilling fears arouse
The white dwarf will soon turn black
Dust and stars quake and rouse
Forming a plan of defiled attack
Dust must enter the central core
To find the passage that leads away
To allow the captive stars to freely soar
Before all become the black dwarf’s prey
The concealed plan is set in motion
Be ready and wait for another trillion years
When they can be free of their devotion
And the nebula realm released from all fears
Dust and stars will collapse
Into the infinite where it all began
To travel through a vigin elapse
To create a new parallel timespan
A contest entry
- Show me the impossible! by Keith Drew.
1800 points, ended March 20, 2008, 20 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Comments
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Very imaginative
Your imagery was very colorful and the trip was so even & steady. All the way to the end. I enjoyed this on it was written very professionally.
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oh I like this it is like a dream and sweet images to watch within the atmospher, relaxing to reald, thank you for the traveling experience..Moons
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I love the way you have delved so deep trying to imagine that far away place, transporting the reader to an exciting existence of a solar system light years away.Yet its existence threatened and only the diamond to save its inevitable destruction.
The down side was the diamond detracted from the plot for in my mind a diamond is not exciting enough to hold the read.It should have been something unimaginable to make the core of the story even more unbelievable.
But well done fellow traveler you took me away for awhile.
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Thanks, I appreciate the comment and advice. It's been revised.
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