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This was written to the art below by Liz Miller, one of the featured images of hers on this week’s CPC Simple Sunday Picture Challenge.

EXTRATERRESTRIAL INSIGHT

Its red atmosphere hides the surface,
leads us to think Mars has no purpose.
Even the probe we sent had missed it.
Martian civilization’s reflections twisted.
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But if we fine tune all of the rays
and look more closely and fix our gaze,
we’d see a colorful cityscape
and Martians! We’d stare with mouths agape!

Truns out they have a workday too,
just like the likes of me and you.
Except they travel to and fro
in flying cars so bright they glow!

At rush hour colors are quite dazzling.
Then Martian nerves should be unravelling.
There is heavy traffic just like Earth,
but it never quells their bubbly mirth.

It seems they have perfected childhood
so that those joys just never end.
They all sleep soundly in colorful beds.
Their secret’s in their colorful heads.

So as we peer into their fun world
where rocket ships chase comet tails curled,
enlightenment might appear in sight:
to keep life colorful, keep it light.

Copyright December 16th 2012 RGD

Inspired by the artpiece “Martian Rush Hour” by Liz Miller