Class M

Author: slapdashmonuments

Inspiration hits with a flash, stories written on the go. A rumble of laughter and the tale is heard only in echoes. The wind blows me in a new direction. Whom shall I visit next?

There are no new planets

Any more than there are new kinds of people

These planets around Trappist-1

Have been there, perhaps waiting for someone

To notice them, to be excited, rewarded in their hopes

That they would somehow exist

In the great dark sky we all view

From angles no one may predict.

I find you in an unsearched area of the world

And adulate, exulting in a new friendship

That I had never had proof of before,

But which I had yearned for and believed in

From the first pangs of loneliness

So many, many years and miles ago

And so this meeting, this greeting

May sound the herald, the claxon, the new trump

That says “you have messages” in a voice

Someone we never met has created

And more new friends, new worlds to explore

Run forward for the first quenching embrace!

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Comments (3 so far!)

Average reader rating 4.50/5

Jim Stitzel

The joy and excitement of discovery. It's the very thing that turned our eyes to the stars in the first place.

#2220 Posted 6 years ago
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4 out of 5

Fantasist

I love the bright-eyed sense of discovery and the way friends are mentioned here on such intergalactic terms

#2234 Posted 6 years ago
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5 out of 5

slapdashmonuments

This was a response to someone's statement that the Trappist-1's planets were "new planets." I've read that they were not discovered by NASA, but by an international group led by a European.

I love the friends I've met on this world of Ficlatte and I keep exploring and my, what discoveries I've made already! They make me sure that new and equally exciting ones are yet to come.

#2236 Posted 6 years ago
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