You praise the glories of those green hills,
Oaks and daisies swaying in the breezes;
Farmhouses and homesteads and stone mills,
Rivers and lakes and ponds with fish leaping.
You are entitled to your opinions, although they seem wrong,
For I choose to enjoy more wide-open pristine vistas;
Asteroids and new worlds, entire star systems strewn
Resources vast and limitless, waiting for the restless…
You can take your shrunken terrarium called Earth,
Now so spoiled, barely any clean streams escaped;
I will be out there harvesting riches, increasing net worth,
Choosing which ten-mile asteroid to make my new estate.
Hope you enjoy breathing what will pass for atmosphere,
As you fight off hordes of diseases and afflictions;
My companions and I will be making air to breathe clear,
Utilizing on-site mineral reprocessing operations.
Time’s passage will show which one of us was correct,
Meanwhile I have a planet to terraform and so must leave;
Take care you don’t submerge in sludge pools collected,
Or breathe any poison gasses, nor any lost future grieve.
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End of the poem
15 random poems
- Владимир Вишневский – Я желаю вам громких успехов
- King Stephen poem – John Keats poems
- Jacke-On-Both-Sides by William Strode
- A Charm by Rudyard Kipling
- Cruel Kindness by Rabindranath Tagore
- The May-Tree by William Barnes
- English Poetry. William Barnes. Second Collection. The Heäre. Уильям Барнс.
- Morning at the Window by T. S. Eliot
- The house where I was born (10) by Yves Bonnefoy
- John Milton – John Milton Poems
- The French Army In Russia, 1812-13 by William Wordsworth
- Song At Capri by Sara Teasdale
- The Window
- Алексей Толстой – В альбом (Стрелок, на той поляне)
- The Soldiers Grave
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Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).