Gemini V, August 29, 1965, Public domain photograph courtesy of NASA (via Flash! Friday)
Civilisation's Pillars
Some say civilisation’s pillars are submerged beneath the
surface, depthless deep devastated, if you dive down, their particulars
preserved in red rock and crumbling concentric canals, pure white ivory at the
heart. Alien ancients of no place are held
captive by the ocean’s sway; an isle overthrown, swallowed whole in silt
slavery, their shattered city-soul secreted sunken beneath the host gulfs and
eddies of a boundless continent. Thus
did decline and chaotic corruption bring their just ends full circle in
chastisement within one day and one night in the first fight. Now, year on year and with the turn of the tide
the sea’s triumphant swell drowns out the ghosted warning whispers of the geographical
fiction seeking to break their water bonds and rise towards liberation’s lights.
They dwell there still in rumoured existence under muddy
subsidence, a semi-forgotten nation. One
day they may make themselves heard by civilisation, so some say. They hope not to be doomed to failure.
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This week's entry for Flash! Friday Vol-2-38. The word prompt this week was to include an alien. As opposed to including spaceships in the traditional sense, I took things in a slightly different direction and ended up writing prose poetry (ish!) concentrating on Atlantis... That involved a bit of research too!
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