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Our Destruction Foreordained…
by Ed Matlack → (All Poetry by Ed Matlack)
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Just a brief respite from the "rigors" of humor...;-)


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Our planet small by inter-planetary standards,

Our ability to travel over vast expanses of space limited,

Our populace lulled into believing we were the ultimate power,

We felt our God would be there for us before our last hour…

 

Our politico’s had the knowledge,

But allowed us to hang over the edge,

We did afterall to them our allegiance pledge,

Our eventual destruction they were aware of,

Between us and them it did drive an everlasting wedge…

 

If we had fore knowledge, we might have survived,

Cannot even now after millennia our planet revive,

Dust storms now does of our planet permeate,

No creature that breathes oxygen can on our planet again thrive…

 

A lush tropical planet we once did populate,

Red was our skies color & our plants the color of blue,

Our world did come to an abrupt end, those that knew,

Did not to the rest allow us our dignity to die before we grew…

© ed <^> 1/28/09


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 Reviews of "Our Destruction Foreordained…"
Reviewed by Karen Vanderlaan
Reviewed on January 29, 2009
yes, thought provokin--i enjoyed it!

Reviewed by Robin Adams
Reviewed on January 29, 2009
Wonderful write. Thought provoking. Maybe one day we will learn to survive without destroying our world.

Robin

Reviewed by Ch'erie de Perrot
Reviewed on January 29, 2009
I think Tom has the right idea....At least he's interested in the Subspecies currently ruinating the planet LOLOL...
Oh this is a doosie mate, errr excuse me, from what weed, didst thou smoketh :):)

Reviewed by Felix Perry
Reviewed on January 29, 2009
Intense my friend and very wise indeed.

fee

Reviewed on January 29, 2009
It seems to me, you have some intimate knowledge of that red planet, you wouldn't have a couple of antennas on you forehead ed?
Keep them antennas out, this is great poetry. Jasmin Horst

Reviewed by D Johnson
Reviewed on January 29, 2009
Ed, a really good and thoughtful poem. Well done!

Peace,
Dan

Reviewed by Linda Law
Reviewed on January 29, 2009
Wow... altho I do enjoy your humor...I'll tell you...this was a beautifully written...skillfully written...and brilliantly written piece!!!! Too bad it's the truth. Ed, you are very talented...don't waste it... hugs, lindalaw

Reviewed on January 29, 2009
Ed~!

Great image - great poetic style - OUTSTANDING WORK!!


Best Always,

Lance

Reviewed by Georg Mateos
Reviewed on January 29, 2009
Best, before coming 2012 we start training on our Duck you sucker! abilities, because if we don't we will not have a head to get headaches.

Georg


Reviewed on January 29, 2009
Ed,

I suppose even Mars can have earth's problems. Wonderful write. Of course, didn't catch where we were until the end!

Mary

Reviewed on January 29, 2009
Quite a thought provoker you've penned here, Ed; well done!

(((HUGS))) and much love, your friend in Tx., Karen Lynn. :)

Reviewed on January 29, 2009
Our salvation was also predestined, Ed, it's because of man's apathy the world is heading into the Last Days. Something to think about ...

(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.

Reviewed by Mr. Ed
Reviewed on January 29, 2009
Our destruction foreordained - Many ancients predicted the same thing - The Mayans said it will all end in 2012 - now ain't that something.

Ye best have a good time while ye can, Bro.

Reviewed on January 29, 2009
SEE - I KNEW WE WERE REALLY ALL MARTIANS!

MARS WAS ONCE OUR TWIN SISTER PLANET - AND LIKE KRYPTON, GLOBAL WARMING DONE HER IN - THEY ALL JUMPED INTO SPACESHIPS AND CAME HERE TO ESTABLISH THE 'BIG BLUE MARBLE' - BUT NOW, WE DONE RUINED THIS ONE TOO -

MAYBE WE'LL ALL MOVE TO VENUS NEXT?

THEN WE'LL ALL BE VENUSIANS, AND FINALLY MEN WILL UNDERSTAND WOMEN !!!

SEE? IT AIN'T ALL BAD !!! TK.

Reviewed by Bonnie May
Reviewed on January 29, 2009
That's it, I'm going on my mountain top...nothing could reach me there. Love, Bonnie


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