Best Astronaut Poems

When I grow up I want to be an astronaut
But why? You ask.
Why would you want to be an astronaut
Of all things?

Because I am floating on a speck of dust
Suspended in a sunbeam
I am nothing
And sometimes I am treated like nothing
And sometimes I want to...

Continue reading...

ASTRONAUT 2021
As certain as I see the world below
some things I'd overlooked, within my haste
come to my mind, and in it now, I know
we can't allow what time remains to waste.
 
What God's become, because we've let it be,
would change if only you'd see what...

Continue reading...

I stood upon the Great Chinese Wall
and drank a pint of alcohol. 
'Twas then I had a thought, 
and heaved a heavy sigh. 
A bird is happy in the sky
when he spreads his wings to fly. 
He is so, is he not?

I saw a bird...

Continue reading...

Astronaut In Space


			The first step on Mars,
			An astronaut goes far,
			He samples the soil,
			He can feel his blood boil,
			The Red Planet,
			A new world to explore,
			The Red Planet,
			Plenty in store,
			An astronaut is super human,
			He has abilities none other possess,
			In outer space,  to aliens he has access,
			He...

Continue reading...

One Word #8
Word: Astronaut
Astronaut, Noun, A person who is trained to travel in a spacecraft

                              ...

Continue reading...

Flying from the Middle Ages
        to the 21st Century
An astronaut 
    passes through amber clouds
         on his way here
Leaving behind ancient 
     ...

Continue reading...

I would like to thank you for your visit.
I have removed these poems for a distant future book publication.
I believe we poets, can make a difference
in this world. We live in the 21st century,
we have tools( technology), we have our past,  and imagination.
We just...

Continue reading...

An astronaut

My son dreams of the moon.
This morning he flew at  kindergarden junk.
Build Spacecraft.
Draw me a map.
I hung on the refrigerator a few pieces of paper
To know how to get to the moon.

"Tomorrow we are going to fly to the moon," 
he solemnly informs...

Continue reading...

An alien lost,
upon a planet
in distant space,
while hunkered down
within a cave,
tightly encased
by coriaceous
materials
splashed with wear
and cross-stitched red,
feels the presence
of five damp probes,
slick and chalky,
fragranced in musk
and saltwater,
slowly closing
around his body
applying pressure
direct to the seams
of his airtight suit.
At Minute Maid Park,
in Houston, Texas,
Dallas Keuchel
reaches into
his fielder’s...

Continue reading...

He smiles and for
A split second the universe
Stops and I can’t breathe
Falling through the sky
I wait to hit the clouds
They’ve frozen
I’m surrounded by the birds that fly from his
Lips 
Bluejays
Red backed sea hawks
I carry the oceans in my eyes and he’s
Got the world in his
Blue...

Continue reading...

another pheasant has mistaken
its frilly pattern with saturn
rings 
           and twitters 
           all its senselessness
silly on the asphalt spangled
foreheads

- ! -
	
and another pheasant has mistaken
pattern...

Continue reading...

It is all happening in a vacuum,
This impossible grand illusion
Burning in its full spectrum
Never meant for our narrow vision

Our spaceship built itself in orbit
Launching satellites to add to its moon
The descendants of a crash-landed astronaut
Our noses always trying to balance a spoon

The atmosphere’s aqueous delusion
Allows...

Continue reading...

Guion Stewart Bluford Jr.
Most noted
 (born November 22, 1942)
 is an American aerospace engineer, retired U.S. Air Force officer 
and fighter pilot, 
and former NASA astronaut, 
He who is the first African American
 and the second person of African descent to go to space.

Raised high...

Continue reading...

I was an elementary school teacher, with dreaming eyes to the rosy future,
Like the emerald, cherry blossom season, arriving later rather than sooner.

As a creative teacher, I was so popular, as children were my pearled world,
Like the blooming cloud covered expanse, where spicy wind's lately...

Continue reading...

Milky Galaxy
Heavenly Bodies
Astronaut Training
Space Exploration
Glenn, Scott, Carpenter

60’s Space Race 
Explore Cosmos
Land On The Moon
Favorite Martian

Aliens
George Jetson
Lost In Space

Moon...

Continue reading...