Alien Poetry

Alien Poetry

Mister_IQ vs. LadyMin vs. TinStar vs. diogenese19348 vs. KatDanson vs. celticfrog
Contest ended 2 years ago 1/28/2010 12:00:00 AM EDT

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First Place
# 1
By Mister_IQ (Score: 7.915)
13

Rocky was a boy.
His heart was granite through and through.
His innards were silicon and mica, too.
And feldspar on the sole of his shoe,
which was gneiss.

Aerie was a girl.
She had Rocky coursing through her wispy brain.
Her density would wax and wane.
She was made entirely of methane.
It was a gas.

Rocky was dense.
His iron limbs were solid and tough.
His limestone skin was weathered and rough.
Diamond teeth were quite enough
for a million dollar smile.

Aerie was a cloud.
Her gossamer heart rippled with a wheeze.
Her body shimmered and thinned in the breeze.
The thought of him made her wobbly in the knees.
Does mist have legs?

Rocky was in love.
His pulse of molten slag would pound.
His feet were only partly in the ground.
His diaphanous goddess that floated around
had him by the stones.

Aerie was in love.
She was blown away by his stony gaze.
She had a thing for bentonite clays.
When she was with him it was all a haze
of loving bliss.

Rocky was decided.
He came to her house, and he did linger.
He got down on one knee, for he did bring her
a glittering jewel to put on her finger.
(It was his uncle's nose.)

Aerie was a-flutter.
She had been waiting for this day.
She started to happily drift away.
He closed the window and saved the day.
Then she said "Yes".

Rocky was delighted.
His face near cracked with a smile so broad.
His eyes glowed white beneath brows of sod.
He raised his craggy hands to applaud
his soon-to-be-bride.

Aerie was aghast.
She wanted to scream but her breath caught.
She knew her jagged beau had forgot:
Clapping flint near methane's not
a good idea.

Word count: 298
Please do not critique my entry.

Ah, young extra-solar inter-species inter-elemental love. It's so tragic.

 
2
By TinStar (Score: 7.699)
10

When you descend
Penetrating our skies
Like the moment of conception
When you arrive
Discerning how we are
Not how we wish to be
When you observe
The vast chasm between
Our dreams and our reality

Judge not only
Persistent violence
But see a mother's touch
Lament the planet's scars
Traverse its gardens
And its sweet wild places
Grieve our folly
Know our passions,
Explore each human artifice

And if you bring
A way to reconcile
The sacred and our profanity
If, from your home
You import wisdom
Which transforms us into one
Please share, friend
Or leave at once
Lest we crucify your kind

Word count: 105
Please do not critique my entry.
 
3
By celticfrog (Score: 7.008)
10

Long llimms that Alderanian ship,
Past the xendoffing of the nebula.
Nosing fastly through tesseract rip.
on the way to the fringe of Arctula.

Though urdoo orbit cycles will pass
'ere it come through gases less dense,
Actinic glare of novae tjass
and the radii glovingate without sense.

Ember hued the leviathin slips
Out the ear of the nameless deic
Breathing aether of stoffllips
To rest millenial on the stone craic.

Word count: 71

A brief elegy by the Alderanion poet Ha%$'Cla,
poorly translated by Google.

 
4
By LadyMin (Score: 6.537)
10

My dearest, my beloved Snarf.
Your k'frilchlagh shines oh so bright!
Your hrleew°g makes all pl°gkscheès barf,
And holfgrel*ffs the darkest night!

My Snarf. Without you, I am pflódt.
I suffer r°tzfl'sch all alone!
I feel like grähkshum, feel like rott,
Without you, I can only schl°me.

And only you can grss me smile,
And you alone can vanquish s'híle.
I stand by you until V*Rbn°ck!

And you mürqu*ck me without guile,
You hr'z my pflüschkik worth the while.
Although my poetry is schlock!

Word count: 84

Thanks meerkat for the lovely themepost, IQ for the challenge, all other participants for making me smile, Lewis Carroll for the Hunt, and Douglas Adams for all the fish.

The very last word of this poem actually does exist, although I did not know it before. :)

 
5
By diogenese19348 (Score: 6.446)
12

Inder landen Glockenspiel
Geefor machen quebs inreel
Ich bespleed das messe Jungfrau
Dom gnamon offr Liv al Kälte Kute
Mein Mittelpunkt bin pitrapat
Aver das Jungfau's bumberchute
Alas mein hertz mach bebroken
Das Tierkind Frau sein bespoken
Squarshed mitten in zwie snabs of bread
Und servieren tu me pour lunch instead
Liv my messa Leberwurst
Ich sollen geliebte du wohl
Aber du gefallen gut

Rrrangflurg the young

A member of a myopic race of intelligent sausage-like worms who journeyed to a delicatessen in Germany and fell in love with a fair Liverwurst only to be served it for lunch between two pieces of rye bread, probably the only thing that kept this from being an adult-only poem.

Translated with Microsoft Universal Translator Version 7 (TM)

Word count: 125

I do get a cigarette, last meal, and blindfold, right?

 

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