<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367634" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Day The Last Poet Died</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As the Earth was being bombarded, <br>Meteors crashed down with all of their might<br>And the dust rose high into the sky<br>And God's sunshine was hid from Man's sight...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alone, beneath the dying Earth, <br>One man was now searching a cavern<br>And so full of wonder at what he saw<br>That he began in writing his poem...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mankind was perishing above<br>As the last poet was writing his rhymes<br>Oblivious to the final prayers<br>At the very end of Man's times...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He smiled as the poem was written, <br>Corrected a few lines and sighed, <br>For the cavern was filled with a glowing<br>That filled his young heart with new pride...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the cavern was trembling all over <br>And the glowing was crushed in an hour<br>And the beauty and glory had vanished<br>As all of Man's dreams had turned sour...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The aliens discovered the planet...<br>The poet the last man alive...<br>The rescued him, healed him and fed him, <br>With strong hopes the man would survive...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Translating his poem to their thoughts, <br>They read all the thoughts in his mind...<br>Preserving his poems forever<br>As the legacy that he left behind...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Denis Martindale, copyright, December 2011.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Denis+Martindale">Denis Martindale</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367634" data-title="The Day The Last Poet Died de Denis Martindale" data-description="As the Earth was being bombarded, Meteors crashed down with all of their might And the dust rose high into the sky And God's sunshine was hid from Man's sight... Alone, beneath the dying Earth, One man was now searching a cavern And so full of ..."></div> </div> </div>

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