NAPOWRIMO #28

Read Write Poem NaPoWriMo Prompt #28 - Intuition

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NAMING STARS

Adam plucked the purple thing from the water
turned it over in his hands as it squirmed
and wrapped around his fingers

He declared to the watching sky
that it would be named
starfish.

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Our giant brains throbbed yet still we pondered
this purple thing for a few moments
and then some more

We declared to our reflections
that without gills or fins
or swift locomotion

That it was clear that the purple thing
would no longer be known
as starfish but sea star.

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Lovecraft gazed up at the cold and distant stars
calling them by their Arabic names
dreaming of elder gods

Beings of heavy metals and burning gases
that were as cold and indifferent
as their stellar parents.

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The stars pasted upon the linen of night
were reflected upon the surface
of the sea

Hiding within its shallows the familiar creatures
of the tidepools and within its deeps
unnamed nightmares.