Mars

06/03/2021 - Poem a Day Compilation



Not so far away

A little red planet orbits

It’s surface untouched

By human contact

Save little robot rovers

Sent to gather data

To transmit back to earth

Through the vastness of space

So that we might find out

Whether it can sustain

Human life on its surface

But I fear should we go

We would not learn

From the mistakes we made here

And destroy another planet

When we have the ability

To save the one we have.

Mother Earth

13/01/2021 – Poem a Day Compilation



Long before the cradle of civilisation

Was a twinkle in some long dead ruler’s eye

A mother birthed a world

That would spawn all of life itself



A hellish birth in the depths of Hades

Cannibalising poor, youthful Theia

Her bones cast adrift to form a ghostly spectre

A sister unable to cast her own light



A heart of fire warming its frame

Its skin boiling and bubbling

Bombarded by foreign bodies

Formed in distant stars



Irregular vessels supply that life sustaining thing

That cool drink to parched lips

The scars of a millennia of battles fought

Healing over, only pock marks remain



Anaerobic organisms fed on a chemical soup

Free from the oxygen we hold so dear

Create the conditions for life to flourish

By their very humble existence



The age of unicellular forms ran rampant

Microbes, bacteria and algae galore

Making up the primordial ooze

From which all other creatures crawled



Tiny forms found in the bosom of the earth

Microscopic witnesses to the dawn of a world

That would deliver every known organism

And nurture them all their lives.

Home Planet

30/06/2020 – Poem a Day Compilation

 

I look around this world,

Its wonders stretched before me,

And ask myself one question

That everyone should pose:

 

Where’s the sense of adventure

In beating a well-worn path

When there’s a whole planet to explore

And a lifetime’s memories to be made?

 

I have stood atop a mountain

Way up above the clouds,

Staring out to the horizon

And down to valleys below.

 

I have crossed vast oceans

To far and distant lands

Where I do not speak the language

But can always understand.

 

It is the beauty that binds us,

The soaking in of new sights,

The sharing of our doorstep

With those from foreign lands.

 

I have gazed upon great monuments

Built to honour kings and queens of yore

And stepped inside magnificent temples

Dedicated to an everlasting love.

 

I have driven across continents

Their length and breadth laid bare

For the simple pleasure

Of seeing what was there.

 

When you marvel at the intricate –

The smallest petal, a delicate wing –

And take in the riches money can’t buy

But a sense of wonder can.

 

There are so many places still

To spark my imagination.

I cannot dream of new worlds when

I have not done with this one yet.