Varied new poems/stories by Jimmy Boom Semtex. There are the usual cool flying and plane poems here.
There are erotic and romantic poems. These are both good and bad. Do you relate?
There is humour and sadness and madness. What you'd expect from JBS. Read on.
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Riga Light Climb
Riga had her ship nose up. It was climbing steeply through a white hazy cloudy sky with little for reference except the bright light up ahead. The light of God or creation or Gridfire. Nose straight up climbing fast and hard. Like fucking. How she liked it! She was strapped into her flight seat with a small yet strong harness. Her left hand pushed the control forward and she increased the power. Haze and cloud sped passed her open viewing window. The light brightened. She imagined her father was there. Up ahead through the hazy cloud in and past the light. That's where her dad was! Riga shook her head and cleared it, wiped away tears. She focused and thought. Not now but later. I will see you later father and deal with these emotions. For now I will focus and fly. Fly to the light. Up and up faster and faster. She was doing one hundred thousand miles per hour in an atmosphere of helium gas. It was above a huge planet that should of combusted and made nuclear fusion to be a sun. Yet for some reason it hadn't. It was a beautiful massive gas giant. The atmosphere was immense thousands of miles high. The light she was speeding to. What was it? Was it Heaven? She would soon find out. She had to shield her eyes it was so bright. She tinted the window so it was easier to see. Surely, she should be in orbit now? Escape velocity. This sky was huge thousands of miles thick or high. How wide was the planet? The diameter must be immense. She brought up the computer and numbers appeared on her display. The blue figures spoke of an immense planetary body. Riga shook her head. That was the biggest damn thing in the galaxy! Fucking Hell. Suddenly she was free of the clouds haze and into the light. It was so immense. Beyond words. Her speed ceased or seemed too. The read out still said over 100k miles per hour. It was like she was stationery. And it never felt like she was sat on her back in a spaceship that was going up vertically. She'd reached escape velocity and was in space. Yet this space was so bright. She killed the power and the speed rapidly dropped off. Soon it hovered at zero. She stabilized and levelled the ship. Unfastening her harness she left her seat and went over to the viewing window. There the small gal was looking out at a huge bright white light. It wasn't painful to look at. There was no focal point. It was everywhere. Not like looking at the sun. And then she saw a figure. She thought it was alien first but the size was wrong. It came closer. Riga remained by the window. It was one way. Nobody could watch here. She drew a breath and flinched. The humanoid came closer. Till it was metres away. No longer hidden by the white light. No, it cannot be! My father. Oh, my goodness. My father. How can that be possible?! You died. That was over a year ago. Then I was ill and left my boyfriend as my fucking world collapsed. Then the crazy witch gave me her spaceship. All of this is insanity. This all must be a dream. Tell me it's a dream father. Am I asleep? No Riga. You are very much awake. You are far from Earth. This place exists in a different reality. Here things are simply different. It's good to see you. Please don't be sad or cry. All things will be ok. You will see. Have faith. You are a Light Worker with an important job to do. Please don't ever stop believing. I will always be with you and have your back. I will spend some time with you. Then you must return to where you came from. Don't cry Riga. It's all right. Tried me on this. I may have died but I am always with you and your sister and your daughters. You need to see them. They miss you. When you go back go and see them. It's important. Listen Riga, I have something important to tell you. Please listen to me closely my child...
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Riga Eat
Riga flew her disc over to Manila. She heard that certain street food was the best. Her flight from Quebec to Philippines took an hour. She kept within the atmosphere. Here she watched the clouds as she flew through them in the daylight zones. For the last twenty minutes it was dark. Below she saw black ocean and stars above. Countless stars. One day she would visit them. Ahead and below Manila was coming into view. Thousands of coloured brought lights. Also like stars. White yellow orange red green. Some were on tell tower blocks. Others on smaller buildings. On her viewing window was superimposed a set of white arrows. They were to navigate. She flew ahead and then diagonally right. Her speed was slow now. Riga was a thousand feet up. Above here she saw two jet airliners heading the for airport. She kept well clear. It was minutes to the eating place. She got changed into a green tennis top and red cycling shorts. Blue Nike trainers and a yellow cap finished her look. She hovered the now invisible ship over Araneta. By remote control she ported herself down behind the stadium. Nobody saw Riga float down from the sky and gently land on her feet. She was smart and knew when people weren't looking. She could've tried an invisibility spell but wasn't confident it would work. Still being a novice witch. Riga took a few moments to look about. There were many people here. It was a 24-hour city. People were in call centres and offices working. Riga walked down a side road and connected to a busy high street. There was a call centre nearby. Here were the food vendors. Nothing more than street carts or tables. One was a motorcycle with an oven on it for fresh pandesal bread. Riga went over to a guy selling hot peanuts. She knew it was bad for her high blood and heart but hey! She was Riga and took her meds and kept fit. She paid some pesos and was given two bags of hot roasted fresh peanuts. They were nice. The call centre agents were busy eating and chatting away. Some were on break others about to start their shift. Riga finished her nuts and went back to her ship. She clapped her hands. The laser powered on with an invisible beam. She was lifted up and into her ship. Two people saw her! Nobody would believe them. Riga sat in the seat and adjusted her controls and slowly flew over Manila. She kept above the buildings and avoided any planes. Then she became visible and increased speed. In seconds she was supersonic. The acceleration was vivid. When in orbit she left the seat and drank some ice water. It was great owning a flying saucer. Next time she would fly to Reykjavik and try some freshly caught toasted fish...
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Riga Command
It was flight time. Riga wore a black and yellow sports top with dark green combat trousers. Riga flew her craft in a straight line to see what the maximum speed was. She advanced the large single silver throttle forwards. It had a large degree of movement and was shaped like a big cock. Her viewing window was open. Outside was black space. A void of nothing. Stars glittered in clear form. Not inhibited or enhanced by any atmosphere. They were as they were. Of course, they were old. If a star was five light years away then that was what she was seeing now. How it looked five light years ago. Her flying disc advanced rapidly. The stars moved on by increasing speed. Her craft was propelled by a fusion reactor drive. The control was all the way forward. A simple display of numbers hovered in front of Riga. Like a fancy hologram. It was the velocity calibrated to miles per hour. The numbers were light blue. Different coloured stars were shifting along. Like marbles brushed away. On and on the craft went. Was there no top speed? She was at half-light speed now! Riga shrieked and clapped her hands. This was awesome! The stars were now like lines. White red yellow even green lines on the blackness of space. She needed to be careful not to hit any debris. Imagine hitting a comet or asteroid! Her protective shields were up but they were not bullet proof. Meaning not one hundred percent protective. No system was. A sense of velocity was now there. There was no acceleration. Just lights whizzing past. That was enough. Riga crossed light speed and kept on going. She was far away from Earth. The Sun was smaller. How much faster could she go? Should she wait and see or was this enough? Well Riga? How fast is fast enough? Just a bit more…
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