A Time and a Place
Ne'er Shall Meet
We still make use of dinosaurs
When we put gasoline in cars:
The only hungry carnivores
Who drive — we don't hunt anymore
.
Caves of stone or caves of cement
Keep out those with bad intent
Tribal fires or microwave
Both heat our food and what we crave
.
Life on Earth has strings attached
But we're just as eas'ly dispatched
We'll meet one day our own comet
New species for the Earth to vomit
.
If dinosaurs and people'd meet
Only one can, the other, eat
Happily, timelines ran distinct
One is here, the other extinct
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Gerard DiLeo
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FPS: The Last Flame Challenge Winners
Welcome to our first Winners Announcement of the year and to the final challenge in the Fall Poetry Series. The Last Flame invited writers to sit with endings, using fire as a central image to consider what remains when something burns out: ash, warmth, memory, silence, or the faint promise of what comes next. The strongest pieces treated endings as gradual rather than sudden, allowing them to flicker, dim, and linger.
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Clever, ludic lines!
Really thought provoking! I think we need to just pay attention to our own actions on this planet..
Oh, you sure showed them. Maybe we could all be friends if they came back.
I don't think dinosaurs had this fate in mind!
Please ask our comet to hit us faster. I'd appreciate it, lol. Loved your poem!
Excellent poem! Thoughtful entry for this challenge.
Loved this, Gerard! Fun poem!