AuthorsDen.com  Join | Login 

 
Where Authors and Readers come together!

Authors | Books | Audiobooks | eBooks | Signed Bookstore | Stories | Articles | Poetry | Blogs | News | Events | Reviews | Videos | Success | Gold Members | Testimonials

Featured Authors:  John Burns, iRachel Glasgow, iEmmanuel Laroche, iRobert Liu, iDave Tabler, iGibbs Williams, iMiller Caldwell, iJoy Pedersen, iMargaret Mullings, iTrennis Killian, i

  Home > Poetry > Poetry        Popular: Books, Stories, Articles, Poetry        Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z     

Odin odin@aflx.com

 Follow Me  

· 4,268 titles
· 12,669 Reviews
· Share with Friends!
· Save to My Library
·
Member Since: Jul, 2008

   Sitemap
   My Blog
   Contact Author
   Read Reviews



Books
· Perceptions

· ECHOSIS

· Prosetry at Work

· Said and Unsaid - Vol 1

· 3 WAY MIRROR


Short Stories
· Patience Waning

· Ladle Lines (A prosetry memory)

· A Gentle Man

· Pacing Love's Journey

· Gratitude

· A Sticky Conversation

· Blazing Now and Then

· Vulnerable Captivity

· The Kite That Would Not Bow

· Time


Articles
· War and Peace

· Desperation Breeds Desperation

· Preference Manifest

· Innocent Guilt

· Barbed Isolation

· A Place...

· Sanity's Loss

· Organs Anonymous

· Fatuous Beyond Absurdity

· Truth is One


Poetry
· The Life-long Pernicious Evil

· Cherishing Sounds of Silence

· Understanding the Unexplainable

· Reality of Another Kind

· Finding Trust Again

· Aromalicious Memories

· A Jungle-rain Pastorale

· Sediment Within the Soul

· Life's Enormous Green Chest

· Roadkill Memoriam

         More poetry...

Odin odin@aflx.com, click here to update your web pages on AuthorsDen.

Books by
Odin odin@aflx.com











See all Books
by Odin odin@aflx.com


   
  Share   Print   Save   

What if...

by Odin odin@aflx.com — Read all 3,869 poems by Odin odin@aflx.com

Below, no more far fetched than Kafka’s deliberation on guilt and justice in “The Trial,” a consideration that altered many a reader’s sense of consciousness.

Friday, May 3, 2013


Poem Artwork
What if...
By Odin Roark

What if

We're perceived as ugly
With only two arms
And two eyes
Strange hair growth
Surrounding that which emits sound?

What if

We look back at them
Acknowledge multiple appendages
No eyes
Radar-like awareness
What they perceive
Changing the color of their bodies?

What if

Our flowers
Trees
Animals
Waters
Soils
Represent help for aliens to understand
Man's regression into
Pre-multiple cell life reason?

What if

What if

Might that bring man's elected officials
To a modicum of auditory
Visual
And visceral awareness?

Enough to make aliens pity
Enough to cause governing consciousness to awaken
Enough to reclaim sentient being identity?

What if...
  


Want to review or comment on this poem?


Need a FREE Reader Membership?

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on May 4, 2013
Sadly, I haven't read Kafka. But I believe your poem is clear enough to give me a clue as to your direction. While I tend to think that intelligent life will tend toward the way that we look because natural selection favors a certain number of appendages, eye placement, and even body hair to a certain extent. That's why there are so many illustrations of what highly intelligent aliens may look like.

Back to your poem. You're right. Most of the ideologues in government would be mightily awakened if they came across intelligent life from another planet. so would you and I.

Ron

Reviewed by Regis Auffray
Reviewed on May 4, 2013
Your words awaken thought, Odin; what if, indeed? I appreciate the philosophical perspective that you present. Thank you. Love and peace,

Regis

Reviewed by Ruan Mills
Reviewed on May 3, 2013
Now that would surely be an almighty blow to the vain and arrogant among us. Of course their protests could make things very awkward for the rest of us.
Love the path your mind takes sometimes - completely off the wall but not beyond the realms of possibility - What do we know!


New Poetry by Odin odin@aflx.com
hhh