waitingcontest 1395 : Brian Strand
submission : 10/7/25
w. a. i. t. i. n. g.
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Categories:
space, allusion, change, character, courage,
Form: Other
BrillianceChallenging house lights on our street,
that sheer brilliance of outer space.
Brash stars shimmering in the heat, ...
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Categories:
emotions, feelings, space, star,
Form: Triolet
I Want A Funny
I took my new friend from Mars,
to the store not to the bars.
He was accompanied by his little green dog,
many thought he was a funny looking frog.
They messed their little green suits,
so no more fresh fruits.
A diaper they will need,
so they can go home and be freed....
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Categories:
space, dog, giggle, green, humor,
Form: Rhyme
The MoonThe moon is the most beautiful thing in the sky
Like a big white diamond telling the day goodbye
Stars seem to fall but the moon keeps its position
It's like it has a relationship with the sun in transition
Staring at it you can't help but become mesmerized
You can catch a view anytime unlike the sunrise
It's the moon...
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Categories:
space, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Walking in the SpaceWalking in the Space
Walk, there is no light and dark, just emptiness of mind
Space is an undiscovered place in the mind, but there
But there is a dead entity. Not just one. Army of the Dead
Here can walk only the dead. This is not that space. Not
This is a closed space, but infinite. Open for dead...
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Categories:
space, fate, future, humanity, life,
Form: Free verse
Dust Devils
The hegemony of height
gets too much.
The city robs me of the horizon
and hides it behind towering
cathedrals of concrete and glass.
Even trees conspire to fill
the gaps and extend their
leafy reach to obscure the sky.
I long for uninterrupted distance,
horizontal vistas of the open sea
and the flat, unfenced expanses
of the inland with its views
to infinity....
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Categories:
city, freedom, prayer, space,
Form: Free verse
Thought of the daythough subtle is the element of space ~
we must pierce this veil, to behold God’s face...
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Categories:
god, space, spiritual,
Form: Couplet
The Classroom as SanctuaryWithin the circle’s quiet pulse lies a deeper truth:
when we shape our ways by kindness, trust takes root.
The classroom holds a sacred space,
where hearts find hope, and fears erase.
Not just a room with desk and board,
But a haven where the soul is restored.
A whisper heard, a glance that sees—
Each moment sown like sacred seeds.
Mistakes aren’t...
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Categories:
space, education, spiritual,
Form: Quatrain
Time and SpaceI bring you to a place
Where between us
Is time and space
So far away
Though I wish it not
And always ahead a day
This place is loud
It's thunder claps
It's screams in a crowd
It's violent and bold
It's waves crashing
It's fire taking hold
It's quiet and shape
It's a dagger and a blade
It's haunting notes on a harp
It's thoughts screaming
It's silence deafening
It's...
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Categories:
space, 12th grade, cry, for
Form: Rhyme
Embrace Me, My Darling
Over and over and over again
once more with feeling, my friend
Tell me you’ll love me forever and aye
‘til storm clouds disappear from the sky
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Categories:
light, love, space,
Form: Couplet
SpaceI live alone in outer space.
Which costs less than a city place.
I like to eat donuts, but they don’t exist here.
On this planet which is covered in slime and fear.
I live alone or maybe not.
Maybe the extraterrestrial beings will leave me to rot.
I don’t know how to hunt and gather.
In a place where there’s no...
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Categories:
space, surreal,
Form: Rhyme
The space-time continuumWe are an entity and so is space,
Mandukya Upanishad claims as true,
a knowing which is revealed by God’s grace,
when flickers therein show light passing through.
Déjà vu suggests time does not exist,
for there’s no way we could have been and seen
and yet we did so why should we insist,
that life’s not a movie, played on time’s...
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Categories:
mystery, space, spiritual, time,
Form: Sonnet
Holy Diver
Disoriented and departed from passing terra forma,
I sink further into the Sea of Tranquility.
As corroded chains of my existence dissipate,
What once tethered my soul to Gaia's gifts
Drifts aimlessly in the abyss of space,
Freezing as they pass me by.
Shards of ice sparkle like crystals upon their surface—
The only illumination against a bitter, lonely backdrop.
Without warning, I...
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Categories:
space, deep, gothic, poetry, solitude,
Form: Free verse
November SkyWe stood at the edge
of the back yard,
next to the garage—
where I’d pretended to be
an astronaut in a
cardboard spaceship—
on a chill November night,
watching Sputnik II
arc across the sky.
I didn’t know why
he was rarely home—
or why it wasn’t always
like this when he was:
quiet,
steady,
present.
All I knew was the stars were out,
and he was beside me—
and Laika was...
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Categories:
space, 1st grade, dad, dog,
Form: Free verse
Oh Dear Alien Away Out There
Oh Dear Alien, I hear you've been,
buzzing me in recent days.
With flying saucers and drones,
scooping down here in droves.
Well I for one would love
you to come, and land for me,
To swoop me off my feet,
up into your cool dude craft.
Oh Dear Alien,...
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Categories:
space, stars,
Form: Lyric
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