Science Fiction - The Rainbow Serpent And The Bunyip Poem by Paul Warren

The black alien spaceship had journeyed long
As the people were looking for a place to belong
The generations of their people had come and gone
Knowing that their task was to them never-ending long

But something was wrong and they were dying
Saving themselves became for them inspiring
Until they found a blue planet third from the sun
As the last survivor piloted their final flight begun

The pilot placed the spaceship in orbit near the South Pole
And detached the zoo components to the surface as their goal
She guided them in and they landed hot in the wetland
So she fulfilled this part of their survival galactic plan

These components came down in the Great Southern Land
And the last creatures were released from the automatic plan
Only two alien creatures left their components that fateful day
One was a giant serpent and the other an amphibian in a river to stay

The aborigines didn't see the wreck sink into the river round
So nothing was known of the alien voyage and how it went down
But at night they heard the amphibian's strange call
And cowered away from the strangeness of it all

The Rainbow Serpent slivered away making channels for the flow
And it became Legend as it was passed down by elders to know
Around the river they continued to hear the roar of the creature
When it became the legend of the Bunyip in the elder's story feature

The spaceship still orbits near the Pole with its dead crew
Its the one they call the Black Knight as it's Legend grew
Because long ago in the Dreamtime it did find a new home
On the third blue planet called earth with no more to roam.

© Paul Warren Poetry