NaPM 25 April 2022

[dukealien]

Night Light (Three Little Planets)


Ages ago a big, bad bunch
looking for trouble
spotted a solar system–
three plausible, possible planets.

Big, bad band
invaded the innermost first.
Its sleepy people lived
in lukewarm lagoons until
big-bads colonized its clouds
eventually ovenizing them
in minimal millennia.

Ignoring icy second choice,
bad bunch branched
to outer, smaller one
green, growing, graced
with water-carrying canals.
Bad boys chemically combined
canals, clouds, rocks
resulting in universal red rust...
poor planet!

Back bad boys bent
their theater of threat to
middle world now mostly melted,
casing clement climate
and as they learned too late
(while massing on its moon)
armed with 26,118 a-bombs
seeking suitable scenarios for use.

So second plausible planet
(third from sun)
now rejoices in
delightful, long-desired disarmament
and a planetary night-light.

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maybe this is the toughest prompt so far? xD

I'd say so.  My second attempt, none too good, but the first was worse.