To Venus for Valentine's Day
In search of love's truth we travel fast and far,
loaded with scopes on modern Venera's and Vega's,
to plunder the domain of night's brightest non-star,
for Rusalka, Billie and Garland we're far too eager.
Below heavy sulphuric clouds, a wondrous red sphere.
Our freighter is chewed and steamed and drenched by acid.
We reconsider if love could exist in a place so sere,
and spy Arachnoid's caught in a web created by our grid.
Solar heat trapped below clouds reheats already hot basalt,
heated lava drains from the center of many craters.
Life on Venus is a passionate embrace hard to halt.
But we are safe, protected by our freighter's ablators
and the lesson of missing craters makes a light go on in our head.
Venus's love enfolds any entrance bomb and brings them abed.
loaded with scopes on modern Venera's and Vega's,
to plunder the domain of night's brightest non-star,
for Rusalka, Billie and Garland we're far too eager.
Below heavy sulphuric clouds, a wondrous red sphere.
Our freighter is chewed and steamed and drenched by acid.
We reconsider if love could exist in a place so sere,
and spy Arachnoid's caught in a web created by our grid.
Solar heat trapped below clouds reheats already hot basalt,
heated lava drains from the center of many craters.
Life on Venus is a passionate embrace hard to halt.
But we are safe, protected by our freighter's ablators
and the lesson of missing craters makes a light go on in our head.
Venus's love enfolds any entrance bomb and brings them abed.
Published by Sheri Fresonke Harper
Sheri works as a freelance writer, novelist and poet. She worked in the aviation industry at the Port of Seattle and Boeing Company for 20 years as a systems analyst/architect where she edited and wrote over... View profile
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Cool! I loved the rhythm of "our freighter's ablators", and the imagery was gorgeous :)
Very interesting! Well written.
Amazing!
I hope to never encounter a heavy sulphuric cloud.
Wow! Your expansive imagery completely blows my mind.
wonderfully written.
well written - thank you
This is an incredible epic! I would not have dreamed of putting a story on Venus and you just made it seem like the easiest task to do. Good work and Happy Valentine's Day.