Some Haikus and a microfiction from a dX Live Open Mic prompt

 The prompt of the day at dX Live Open Mic was Storm:

So I started with some haiku:

white spiral

blue marble

black space

cloud mountains surround

with increasing density

sudden valley

wet warm meets dry cold

around the other they move

and Dervishly dance

blue bullseye

set within a white target

no darts please

lovely from above

disaster from below

beautiful violence

storm and Earth spin

as do Sun and Milky Way

cosmic movement

how many shades

of blue does the Earth need?

many

sea, sky, space

white, blue, purple, black

colorful crescents

the eye of the storm

whirlwind forces threaten

 peace within

hurricane

or typhoon? 

does it matter?

And then I wrote a microfiction:

“Captain Grognak!”

“Sir?”

“We are being beckoned! Taunted! The Earthlings have created an atmospheric target they think we can’t hit! But we’ll show them that our navigational skills are up to the task! Drop us through the centre of their pathetic white spiral!”

“But sir, our ship is too big to fit inside the centre of the storm! If we’re lucky we’ll be caught by enormous winds and flung past Mars!”

“I have no wish to be flicked away like an annoying bug, so I say let’s not be lucky and proceed to land!”

“But sir! If we’re unlucky we’ll…”

“That’s an order, Grognak!”

*****

And thus the world was saved once again by an Earth-based storm, alien egomania, and massive stupidity.