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Title:       Strangest
Date:        2024-04-04
Link:        https://spool-five.com/poetry/2024_apr04_strangest/
Word Count:  187
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> 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[1]
=>[1] https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/67223/pg67223-images.html

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