“I don’t want to survive
I want to live” forever
passionately in love with you
but that’s not possible now
that astroid ripped our hull
our ship took critical damage
oxygen is nearly depleted
we are adrift alone in space
exploring space with you
was my holy grail
my peak of Everest
my grandest dream — realized
we’ve watched
golden fire clouds
hanging in pale green skies
over the azure seas of Toluras
we’ve seen the copper leaves
of the Parmus fronds
flashing from indigo mountains
in the crystal mists of Gemin
I have beheld exquisite beauty
in my rich full life
but none so beautiful
as your eyes tonight
let me fall into them
this one last time
and feel deeply our love
remembering all we’ve shared
my heart feels cruel pain
our love and “all those moments
will be lost in time
like tears — in rain”
*
rob kistner © 2021
Poetry at: dVerse
MOVIE QUOTE #2 — “Blade Runner”
*Blade Runner is a Ridley Scott production based on Phillip Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep”.
This is a genre, I didn’t know I needed.
I may have to try it sometime – out of this world!
Thank you Darius! I love writing SciFi love verse… 🙂
Very good!
Thank you Jenna!
Very interesting and creative. 🙂
Thank you Susan!
Yes, it was the quote that I had almost added to the list. Actually I thought I had! This is such a captivating piece as I’m in awe at the way you make sci-fi feel so believable…..or maybe floating “over the azure seas of Toluras” just sounds so good right now. Either way, I loved it.
Thank you very much Mish! I love the exercise in imagination that writing SciFi affords me.
Beautiful, and you have made the SciFi love verse all your own! I was up there in the stars for a moment…
I appreciate your gracious words Ingrid — and I sm happy I sent you flying… 🙂
Ahhh. the colors you painted here are vivid and alive, leaking with love. so much love, Rob.
Thank you Rosemarie! 🙂
“Sci-Fi Love Verse” is one of your specialties, brother. You somehow encapsulated the “feel” of Batty’s death speech (one of the best ever written), and your own sci-fi references from the Kistner universe, and your other science fiction writings. You are bang on how similar our minds work.
Absolutely one of the best movie scenes ever — and the Vangelis music bed worked brilliantly! I remember sitting in the theater in ‘82, crying with my jaw agape — it fell open at tge opening of the movie, and never closed. I walked out of the theater, purchased another ticket, and walked tight back in — two more times finally walking out after midnight, feeling like I had just witnessed a genius in Ridley Scott, certain this was the dawn of a new era in movie making. I read the next day that the majority of critics didn’t like it. I knew immediately that my conclusions were right on.
A great sci-fi poem …. I am trying to imagine being lost in space … hopefully with someone I cared about.
Thanks Helen! Probably would be a bittersweet situation.
You are a man of many talents, Rob…with the soul of a poet.
Well thank you Bev. Most of my life I have been terribly socially insecure, masking it with a varnish of confidence — which carried me through, even resulting in numerous wonderful outcomes… but never sent the insecurities packing. Ironically, they seem to work in my favor as a writer. Oh well, who really understands the human psyche?
Loved all of it, Rob.
Thank you Ken, very much… 🙂 …this was inspired by the riveting death scene, enacted by Rutger Hauer in the Ridley Scott produced, Blade Runner — and by David Bowie’s exquisitely written and brilliantly performed “Space Oddity”. SciFi taken to the max!
Beautifully done Rob! Let me fall into your eyes… a great line!
Thank you so much Dwight…!
Rob, you make it look easy. Imagining Roy and Priss as I read the words.
Thank you for your always kind words Lisa. That movie, especially that scene, is imprinted in my psyche — the entire movie just blew me away. I watched it in a nearly empty theater the first week it was released. I was alone because I went on a Tuesday afternoon so I wouldn’t be disrupted by yakky friends. I was a fan of Dick’s writing, Ridley’s production work, and Harrison’s brooding. It was so captivating — and the music from Vangelis made me feel I was in a cathedral watching a spiritual ritual. I went to the 3:00 sho stayed for 6:00 and 9:00 — I drove home in the quiet of midnight, still totally mesmerized. It was one of the memorable highlights of 1982, after that i became a blade runner fanatic.
This is gorgeously worded, Rob! I especially love; “we’ve seen the copper leaves of the Parmus fronds flashing from indigo mountains in the crystal mists of Gemin.” 😀
Thank you Sanaa! I really enjoy the visual aspects of writing, especially poetry.
sci fi love poetry, excellent response with a sad ending. I would like to see more of this coming.
I write a several SciFi/Fantasy pieces each year Sean — don’t post most here on I&V, and not always love poems. Maybe we should do a SciFi prompt someday?
I thought I’d already commented here, Rob, but apparently i didn’t hit eNTER of something… Let me do so now: BRAVO, Poetmeister!
Well, oxygen was depleted — maybe you were lightheaded… 😉
I do love a good sci-fi romance <3 A beautiful response to the prompt!
Thank you Sunra!
Oh, the traditional space story of traveling until death takes you mingled with a love story… so well done.
Thank you Bjorn. I am a SciFi junkie! ????
So well done, Rob!
Thznk you so much Sara! 🙂