Lilyaine Flonia

By Tony Colatruglio

In your Earth dreams, friend, go to Zylomead, where, with a lovely flower creature as your host and eternal companion, you can find new hope in those lush alien skies, and elsewhere, if only you let yourself truly go. Trust your dreams. But hurry, a robot apocalypse on Earth looms large. Do you want to risk being caught in its wake when, perhaps, you have a means of escape...and more?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tony Colatruglio
• Release date: Jan 3, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463666272

Tony Colatruglio

So much to say, so little the time; but live fictive worlds in winged rhymes.

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Lilyaine Flonia

A Poem

by

Tony Colatruglio

Smashwords Edition,

Copyright 2019

I. Into an Alienscape

Friend, time and space have baffled me again;

one moment, during a rainy Earth morning,

I’m holed up in a cave,

safely hidden from the robots for the time being,

wishing I were elsewhere, dozing on the floor,

breathing the musty stalagmite air,

suppressing yet another cough.

The next moment, I’m in an alien land of sea-green grass,

salmon-colored skies,

standing before a beautiful flower-creature woman,

so elegant and stunning, she dazzles my eye;

and I want to stay;

for she’s indeed incredibly beautiful in her unique way,

and the atmosphere, the environment, the mood seems so peaceful there, unlike Earth.

Then, just like that, I’m snapped back to Earth again,

waking, confused in my cave.

Am I dreaming?

It does have that quality, but it’s a different experience because I’ve a real awareness of myself

and those—and these surroundings.

Hmmm. Does that make sense?

I hope so, for I’m merely a writer, merely a man, a human,

a member of the resistance and not a