Best Asimov Poems
What To Read
...Read Tolkien
Read Howard Fast
Asimov
is sure to last
as we walk
omto the 21st
century
our minds must be
free from terror
free from pain
free to start
all over......
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Categories:
asimov, angst, art, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
Whither To, Icarus
...How high can we fly?
(After all, we must try!)
Like the mythical Icarus
Can we touch the sky?
Yo, the answer is 'Yes.'
We've already done THAT
Soared into sp......
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Categories:
asimov, flying, sky, space,
Form:
Rhyme
The Rest Is Yet To Come
...Isaac Asimov wrote of scenarios unimaginable
Robot companions and industry-wide takeovers
His 1940 classic, "I Robot," is now quite actionable
If anything, a bit outdated, ripe for a make-o......
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Categories:
asimov, future, science, science fiction,
Form:
Rhyme
Her Nibs
...Day in, and day out, from the ripe old age of five
I’ve take to sharp objects and whittled at their sides.
Plotting the precise angle with penetrating gaze,
the slant of slice, just so nice, as ......
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Categories:
asimov, funny, language, metaphor,
Form:
Couplet
my little bookworm -
...
home again, jiggety-jog
oh, how kindly my castle welcomes me!
the pungent loves of earlier meals and my dear one's perfume
Je Reviens and Acqua Di Gioia
like manna for the s......
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Categories:
asimov, analogy, appreciation, books, fun,
Form:
Free verse
Beware the Banning of Books and Speech
...I’m not sure what’s happening in this country…sometimes I think it’s being overrun by fools…in some states they’re banning books…in my state, Florida, they’re banning talking about gender and sexuali......
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Categories:
asimov, freedom,
Form:
Rhyme
This Week
...*** THIS WEEK ***
(“If my doctor told me I had six minutes left to live, I wouldn’t
brood. I’d type a little faster.” Isaac Asimov)
The sliced portions of this week
Collapsed, an almost el......
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Categories:
asimov, encouraging, endurance, imagery, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Past Descendents of Future Ancestors
...Who was first to write of cultures we read,
With their trans-galactic real estate greed?
The Greeks were dreamers of heaven above
Where the gods and their men fought wars for love.
The Asian myth......
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Categories:
asimov, parody, write, men, write,
Form:
Heroic Couplet
Sci Fi Banter
...Unlike your Mr Asimov
Whom I hear likes Rachmaninoff
My limericks are clean
the point clear to be seen
Perhaps he drinks too much Smirnoff!
Spelling used is how the man spelt his......
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Categories:
asimov, humor,
Form:
Limerick
Familiar Spirit
...I was walking down the streets one day
Through lanes so dark and still
When a sudden light lit up the way
And I found my body thrill.
The shadows on the walls were dark
My riot thoughts couldn......
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Categories:
asimov, angst, confusion, imagination, introspection,
Form:
The Enemy
...The Enemy
He was sleeping when he felt the edge of the knife
Cold, sharp, hard against his throat.
“I am going to kill you now” the enemy said.
“Freind” said the waking sleeper
“You ca......
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Categories:
asimov, allegoryme,
Form:
Free verse
Charlax Pleas
...CharlaX Pleas
Writers have a deadline most people work at something even written work is
work it takes some typing with both hands not every poet is an ASIMOV not every
writer is Heinlein pleas ......
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Categories:
asimov, computer-internet, on work and
Form:
Free verse
The Stranger
...Stranger
I never really met him
But I know him
I know his face in profile
The furrows of his brow
I’ve seen it enough times
At Barnes & Noble browsing Asimov
I’ve seen him
Leaving the loft
W......
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Categories:
asimov, men,
Form:
Free verse
BIG BROTHER
...BIG BROTHER
The science fiction of yesteryear
Is now here, or all coming true
A futuristic view was imagined
Wunderkind authors like Asimov
Thought much of, and influential
So much potential ......
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Categories:
asimov, science fiction,
Form:
Free verse