Best Asteroid Poems

Asteroid


You were out of this world 
named for the Perseids
the meteor 
that exploded in two striking the blue 
between the sun and the moon 
the...

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Tiptoe, tiptoe, what they say is not what they say it is . . . 

Cameras rolling, take one, action! 
“How stupid can you be?...

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I think I’m going to move
As far away as possible
To another galaxy
Find my own asteroid B 613
Just like the little prince
To be the ruler of...

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"Human mind knows no constraints. Without spending time or money, one can make an odyssey into the outer space and even into other planets. What...

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The year is 2025
I have come back to my past
To witness the Mayans
Who said Earth would not last

2012
Was the year they declared
That the planet we...

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Hard is the rock, yet it does roll, beneath the oceans
Swift currents its rough edges become smooth, rounded
But it makes no sound; it is the...

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Have you ever had one of those days 
On the wrong side of the bed, bad days 
When everything right went wrong 

Cause the ding...

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The world’s astronomers after a tumultuous debate
have decided to reduce the number of planets to eight.
Little Pluto out in the reaches of the solar system
has...

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The day the asteroid arrived the dinosaurs were playing,
With toys and bats and balls and things, some dancing jigs and swaying.
Young Betty Brontosaurus was renowned...

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Staring teary eyed and awed from within our atmospheric cocoons,
we witnessed the appearance of the first of seven dancing moons.
As  Primora, the closest sun,...

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for René Passeron*

             You may not grow old too soon
   ...

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(Boo Hoo Politics was Written following the Brexit and Trump
votes as an observation and not a political declaration.
A few years out of date now but...

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the night sky wavers in your frosted light
imaginings of ever after cling like honey to a spoon.
you face the earth as sister, smiling coyly
from the...

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When I was a child,
I thought like a child, played like a child,
free of worry and stress, innocently happy.

I dreamt of knights and dragons,
of spaceships...

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I'm Leaving (eventually)

I'm going to leave the planet 
never coming back
wave you all a quick goodbye 
as I vanish into black

Traverse the great elliptic 
skipping...

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