Horror Haiku Club Prompt

August 23 - Asteroid

Asteroids are small free-floating bodies traversing the universe, they can be monolithic, or clusters of smaller rocks and rubble. Most that impact us break up and burn in our atmosphere, becoming smaller meteorites.

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Your prompt is ASTEROID.

Monolith of death

Punching craters in the soil

Your reign, extinction

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But some, like the asteroid that is suspected of causing the dinosaurs’ extinction, are miles across, too big to burn up.