An Oak tree on Mars
Without a cityscape, or noise from cars
Let’s plant
An Oak tree on Mars
Might the roots take hold?
This tree might grow
The branches reach high
Into a red, dusty sky
Magnificent would this be
Without restraint
No salty seas
Only to be
Lost amidst the endless stars
As a lonely, the only
Oak tree on Mars
In this seed from a thought of a dream
Nothing impossible today it seems
Swaying against a dusty, red wind
Dreams are lost if held within
Plant them. Watch them grow
Into the endless horizon they shall go
Dreams will take root for all to know
Like the Oak tree on Mars
Watch it grow
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1 comment:
Another amazing poem. An interesting question behind it, about terraforming. And the uncertainty of this sort of applied astronomy.
Good stuff.
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