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Diaspora

Sea of light hovers overhead
Mariners sail beneath myriad stars
Illuminated by the light of a thousand suns

Wandering the azure sphere
Of this strange planet
Endless orbits of biosphere
Skimming crystal blue surface
Frothy wavelets stretch out
To convex horizon

Milky Way splashed across night sky
Misty arms swirl through the millennia
Ancestral world a cinder
Womb of humanity vanished in fiery solar death

Atolls scattered on ocean world
Refuges for weary travelers
Journeying across emptiness
Ancient music plays in the salty breeze
Carried in timeless beauty
Across vast void of darkness
Songs of birth world
Melodious voices sing of earth
Playing through centuries of solitude

quote>"Songs of the birth world"

yes
I could say that in a thousand words, so hard for me to get a picture in my head for this extro-biological electro techno womb that enculturates us from our first breath.

beautiful beautiful poem
please pardon ramble

Thank you stilltrucking for your wonderfully in depth reply. This poem was inspired by the Arthur C. Clarke book, "Songs of Distant Earth." In the book robot ships have seeded distant planets in other solar systems to preserve humanity in the last mad days of earth. The sun has gone nova. The planet Thalassa was one of the seeded worlds, where people live in a veritable paradise on the few islands in the planet wide ocean. Then a ship arrives directly from earth carrying one million passengers. The ship is only stopping by to refurbish its shield with ice from the Thalassa sea. However, an evolutionary event occurring beneath the tranquil waters of Thalassa will change the people's lives forever. The people on Thalassa still listen to the music of old earth.

John