WRITING OBSTACLE
Submitted by Robin Marlowe
Write a sci-fi scene about encountering an alien species that is not initially obviously intelligent.
What types of intelligence might not be recognisable to humans? How might we begin to recognise it?
Knowledge
They came from different stars, unknown,
To Earth, a land theyβd never grown
In the beginning, they stumbled slow and strange,
Their movements awkward and out of rage
No shinning minds or quick designs,
Just creatures learning in a bind
Their thoughts like clouds, they drifted wide,
As if the lacked a certain guide
Unnoticed intelligence, took its time,
Like clumsy step in foreign rhyme
I watched, unsure, if they could know
The depths of life, or how to grow
But in the quiet, slow and still ,
The seeds of wisdom found their will
For even in their fumbling grace,
There bloomed a truth we cannot replace:
That knowledge takes its own sweet pace,
And learning wears no certain face
