Bridge Two Poems

(Three ancient poems, not normally named, after working names were given to them by Alphans, on 357 DAB)

 

The Introduction

The rage of star giants,
the sun of faded glory,
planet of the bridges,
with the ring of station,
rotting cities in desert,
the frozen city of old,
the key to safe passage,
a city and its opposite,
one of need, one of past.

 

The Details

World of three dawns:
hideously long blue,
the short orange'red,
and never-comes white.
The desert is damp with
the silence of the city.
Cracked yet not cored,
curves and branchings,
cackles of the cold.
Breathings and bumps
across the glass ring.
Locked museums stand;
noise, static, dynamic.
dead/Alive, cold/Warm.
All can see a lost past,
others cannot touch.

 

The Shape

To the city under glass,
two halves as whole,
a bridge of power,
long untraveled,
seekers flock,
to flee fury,
find new
space.