Horror Haiku Club Prompt
August 22 - Coronal Mass Ejections
Coronal Mass Ejections are ejections of excess energy from the sun’s outermost layer. Most CMEs are not directed toward Earth.
Your prompt is CORONAL MASS EJECTION.
Ever present, yet
Always out of reach, perhaps
With plasma it could…
But if one were to reach Earth in modern times the result could be catastrophic, ruining satellites and overloading power grids. The damage could lead to week’s long power shortages over large swaths of the world.
Winter is coming
I am so cold in this world
Pour your heat on me!
Coronal emissions
I'm blending two writing prompts today - one about roads @Miguel S. and another about solar excess energy explosions @Honeygloom.
These Japanese-style Senryū poems tell a story in roughly 50 words about what might happen to our roads if a big solar blast hit Earth.
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Solar flare strikes Earth
Electronics fail, darkness
Blankets the cities
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Empty highways stretch
Silent under starry skies
No engines running
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Travelers on foot
Wander asphalt ribbons now
Seeking safe haven
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Old roads find new use
Chalk maps mark the way forward
Communities form
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Hope grows like wildflowers
Along forgotten byways
New world beginning