A Sense of Urgency

Atop a plateau vast in area,
somewhere in the Peruvian Andes,
energy caused fissures in the granite.
Nearly every life form nearby knew stun.
Sent from a planet in the Pleiades,
Emissary Uriah landed safe.

Of course, Uriah was consummate pro,
famous among the diplomatic staff.

Uriah thundered long on vast plateau.
Reaction planet wide transcended fear.
Governments ground like old gears in seizing.
Emergencies declared evolved to malice.
Normal goings on no longer, anon
conflagrations, lifelessness of panic.
Yet fear from thunder undermines the day.

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Writer’s Cramp
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Double Acrostic
(A Sense of Urgency)