Skip to content

Stopping by Tharsis on a Dusty Evening

When all my days have turned to rust,
The poison wind begins to gust,
And strange colors purely Martian
Fill up the sky with choking dust.

When the air begins to thicken
Like a scene from science fiction
I lose sight of Tharsis Montes,
And embrace this redding vision.

Down in Noctis Labyrinthus,
Cut off, alone, I find solace.
Within the planet’s ancient scar,
I marvel as the sky turns ferrous.

The lovely dust darkens the stars
Then blocks the Earth that once was ours.
And now there is nowhere but Mars.
And now there is nowhere but Mars.

Not long ago, I had my students write poems using Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” as a model. I decided to have a go at it too. I’ve been reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy.

Published inPoemsTeaching

2 Comments

  1. Kate Kate

    Terrific thoughts – very evocative words. Please share more poetry! Will be sharing this onebon Facebook.

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.