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Astra Poems - Poems about Astra


My Old Holden Astra
24 seven, Eight, Nine, Ten to the second. Heaven ate my pancreas, Please pretend eleven likes me. Twelve times its elapsed, Survival wasn’t even likely. Shelved minds, And a brain collapsed, He forgot the old me. Thirteen days in hells binds, Sustained damage behind waxed out eyes, “Can he even see me?” There’s a bird who abides...

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Categories: astra, age, color, confidence, extended
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ad Astra Per Aspera
i’m not sure of who i am going to be. but that’s how it is supposed to be right? i have many many dreams, some big and some little. but, it always comes back to one. i lay awake at night thinking of my dream and how i yearn to reach it. every night like a...

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Categories: astra, destiny, future, i am,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Ad Astra Per Aspera
If you look in my eyes and see a man without self confidence Know that I have lived a lifetime without common sense Because every time I have fallen I have gotten back to my feet Refusing to give in and refusing to accept defeat I told myself it was not my fate to live with the burden of...

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Categories: astra, encouraging, growth, how i
Form: Couplet
Astra Travel
astra travel silver nor gold non I have but I got a soul that heals me and now I touch a voice through the contact of the heart as the soul travel to heal another soul with love astra travel great wealth and riches non is under my possession as a common man I am yet my soul is richer than what human...

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Categories: astra, africa, blessing, cheer up,
Form: Epic
Per Ardua Ad Astra
...inspired by 'Science-Fiction Cradlesong' by C.S. Lewis Were we to try for heaven, by dust and stars be riven to lust for foreign places where we might find strange faces, the cost could be pre-emptive, marginalize incentive. In tubes of strengthened metal, to demonstrate our mettle, at speeds defying gravity, (for honour or depravity?) unknown manifestations might try and test...

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Categories: astra, writing,
Form: Verse



Per Ardua Ad Astra Re-Post
...inspired by 'Science-Fiction Cradlesong' by C.S. Lewis Were we to try for heaven, by dust and stars be riven to lust for far off places where we might find strange faces, the cost could be pre-emptive, marginalize incentive. In tubes of strengthened metal to demonstrate our mettle, at speeds defying gravity for honour or depravity, unknown manifestations might try and test our patience. Distances beyond our ken, regions never...

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Categories: astra, writing,
Form: Verse
Per Ardua Ad Astra
...inspired by 'Science-Fiction Cradlesong' by C.S. Lewis Were we to try for heaven, by dust and stars be riven to lust for foreign places where we might find strange faces, the cost could be pre-emptive, marginalize incentive. In tubes of strengthened metal, to demonstrate our mettle, at speeds defying gravity, (for honour or depravity?) unknown manifestations might try and test...

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Categories: astra, science fiction,
Form: Verse
Per Ardua Ad Astra
Plentiful the storeroom as I return my kit Everything an Airman needed for a career Returned this last day Air Force veteran is my new name Retired medically for service injuries Duty to Queen and Country Until I could no more And still it hurts to walk away Aviation was my life’s passion Destined to this career Administrative duties School, and a new beginning Training and development...

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Categories: astra, military,
Form: Acrostic
Per Ardua Ad Astra
...inspired by 'Science-Fiction Cradlesong' by C.S. Lewis Were we to try for heaven, by dust and stars be riven to lust for far off places where we might find strange faces, the cost could be pre-emptive, marginalize incentive. In tubes of strengthened metal to demonstrate our mettle, at speeds defying gravity for honour or depravity, unknown manifestations might try and test our patience. Distances beyond our ken, regions never...

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Categories: astra, history, space,
Form: Couplet
Per Ardua Ad Astra
...inspired by 'Science-Fiction Cradlesong' by C.S. Lewis Were we to try for heaven, by dust and stars be riven to lust for foreign places where we might find strange faces, the cost could be pre-emptive, marginalize incentive. In tubes of strengthened metal, to demonstrate our mettle, at speeds defying gravity, (for honour or depravity?) unknown manifestations might try and test...

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Categories: astra, space
Form: Rhyme

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