The Planet’s Tale: Narrative Verse

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

Electra Movie Camera image by Joe Haput CC BY-SA

The Planet’s Tale

I

On the ridge, the spaceship crashed,
Occupants would soon be ashed,
By the intense, oil-fed fire,
Consuming it, fin to spire.
Out there stumbled, licked in flame,
Suit in tatters, feet half-lame,
Howling with the fear of death,
Insides cooked by heat-seared breath,
A single man, once the boss
Of t…