Strangest

Our (optional) prompt for the day challenges you to write a poem in which you take your title or some language/ideas from The Strangest Things in the World. First published in 1958, the book gives shortish descriptions of odd natural phenomena, and is notable for both its author’s turn of phrase and intermittently dubious facts. Perhaps you will be inspired by the “The Self-Perpetuating Sponge” or “The World’s Biggest Sneeze.” Or maybe the quirky descriptions of luminous plants, monstrous bears, or the language of ravens will give you inspiration.

Link for The Strangest Things in the World

This poem was based on the entry The Ocean’s Sound Barrier

The Euphasids of Minerva

A densely woven carpet of life 
Concealing hidden depth
From sonic finders 

He said they were 300 feet thick 
Many coloured, rapidly moving 
With flashing lights, predacious 
and warring 

A line between technology and 
True understanding, a natural impediment 
to progress 
Life calling back to instruments, saying 
No, you can hear no farther
The veil will remain in place
Until twilight arrives