on 3/3/02 10:02 am, tlrelf at [log in to unmask] wrote:

>


I think this is super, terrie, but I would have used unbeknown, not
unbeknownst. In the fist line to have a chewy sound like that, rather spolis
it. Unbeknownst has 3 vowels and 8 consonants!
I like it all, even though I find the logic rather puzzling in places, but
it would be, wouldn't it. hatchlings is good, even though that has 8
consonants and 2 vowels.
Sally ee

 Unbeknownst to human kind,
> we have lingered in the chambers of the sea.
> They look skyward, think us there,
> yet we wade on the surface of their waves,
> watch as they direct their lens
> to measureless space.
>
> They listen on their radios,
> spend billions on pseudoscience.
> We could teach them more than this,
> if they honor the promised code:
> "We come in peace".
>
> We've asked ourselves,
> "do I dare disturb the universe?"
> certain that we already have.
> This is a question they've rarely asked,
> while polluting that space they so love to explore.
>
> Perhaps you've noticed a peculiar shimmer
> from the corner of your eye,
> and thought it rays of sun or moon captured by the waves.
> Perhaps it was I, or another of my kind;
> our obsidian orbs cast an eerie light.
>
> Marooned on a planet far from home,
> we often dwell upon ironies such as this:
> a species who expends so much to deny
> what is right before their eyes.
>
> I ask you now, who is watching whom?
>
> And so I've  placed this "poem" in a bottle,
> discarded by a careless child.
> But in this, as with many things,
> we find purpose where none was claimed.
>
> When it rains, we dance upon your moonlit shores,
> burrow in your sands to
> spawn, then pray our hatchlings will remember all
> and so bequeath you history.
>
> There was a time when people knew
> that the sea was source of life immortal.
> From it we come, to it we return,
> waves thrashing upon the shore.
>
> Yes, life does hover at universe's edge;
> a moon, and behind it, stars.
>
> Terrie