Saturday, April 14, 2012

A Celestial Body.

Gawking through binoculars
at a stellar glow
in the night sky.
It whirls like
A Celestial Body
revolving in orbit
in the vast milky way
illuminating the night sky.

Perched on the grassy
banks of the Contention
River, i see beyond
the ferigate a 
stellar glow of 
A Celestial Body
flittering real slow
athwart the night sky.

Upright on a warehouses
corrugated rusty
iron roof
once again i spot that 
stellar glow in 
the night sky.
I climb down via an old
rusty steel step ladder
drop to a cold, dank
laneway floor
between two warehouse
brick walls where
ghoulish shadows rule.

My coursing footsteps
echo off the dank
slimy brick walls.
I turn the corner
into another laneway
only to discover my
stellar glow is not
A Celestial Body
at all, but a whirligig
fixed upon a dirty,
smelly old white
garbage truck!.

(c) 2012 Windsmoke.

13 comments:

Magsx2 said...

Hi Windsmoke,
Brilliant, I was right into the story and then you really got me at the end, was not expecting that one. LOL

River said...

That was a disppointing end, a whirligig on a garbage truck! I was expecting a UFO at least.
You're good at this.

Dave King said...

Like River, I was looking for someething sensational - good to keep the reader on his toes, though! Fine writing.

FruitCake said...

Windsmoke, another good one. There is something about the night that makes a place seem almost like a parallel universe some times. Love it.

Commander Zaius said...

Yeah, I did not see that one coming! Great job!

Anonymous said...

I laughed at the ending. Nice work.

PerthDailyPhoto said...

Dissolution is everywhere hey Windsmoke! Nice work.

Elephant's Child said...

Loved the twist in the tale. Thanks.

Windsmoke. said...

G' Day MAGS & BEACH: There's nothing like a bizarre twist at the end :-).

G' Day RIVER: A U.F.O would have been to obvious :-).

G' Day DAVE: Thanks for the vote of confidence :-).

G' Day FRUIT: Nightime does seem to be a world within a world :-).

G' Day ANDREW: Glad you got a laugh out of it :-).

G' Day GRACE: Absolutely :-).

G' Day THE ELEPHANTS CHILD: I'm glad you appreciated the twist :-).

Ygraine said...

Just goes to show, beauty can be found absolutely anywhere! :)

Windsmoke. said...

G' Day YGRAINE: Yep, beauty is in the eye of the beholder :-).

Red Nomad OZ said...

Haha! Love the way you've turned the tables!!

Windsmoke. said...

G' Day RED: There's nothing like a twist at the end that surprises you :-).