Best Europa Poems

What a burning, broken universe—
incalculable, devastating,
things we can't imagine.
We attach names familiar to us
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I knelt amidst the mountain's rise
        beneath the weeping opal skies
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"Barefoot in the Bushfires of the Vanities"



Heat rises slowly to rapture flames licking and teasing
Blue Ghostgums to stretch and crack wide open
as Fire spreads molten...

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Long ago I was given a medallion, a gift from a beautiful women
when she gave it she said "remember"
Whenever I look at it, I remember
The...

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I knelt amidst the mountain's rise, beneath the weeping opal skies,
      There to measure Io's swoon - the envy of...

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Back again ...

Her daily hour of hope ...
She came every evening to The Hem ...
Just a big hole in the earth, really, a barren canyon...

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Long ago I lived like a Gypsy
moving to the sights and sounds
of my desires and illusions
as I painted my shared heart in red passion
which held...

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The silver moon lighted the night like a lantern,
as we counted each step climbed to another world.
The room was filled with lighted candles,
and fragrant scent...

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Sgt. Bedlam of heavy artillery reporting sir
Bedlam I want you to pick the runt of the litter
and turn him into an agent assassin 
with the...

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I gaze at slate-grey cumulus clouds 
fat with the rain that will pour out infinite love 
on our beautiful earth. The earth now waits 
in...

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Oh great Jupiter, king of all the planets.
The great gas giant.
A great red spot, a magnificent storm.
You have many moons some large and some small.
The...

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"I do not see what right any one would have
to object to calling this part 
[the South American mainland], 
after Americus 
who discovered it 
and...

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With so many full moons on his calendar
His high tide will never surrender
He’s a failed star
And must live with that scar 
Neither here nor there,
Just...

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They  opened  Pandora’s box

For their own vested interests and political gain:

Frog the Nigel and Frog the Gove

Pulled a wool over common folks’ eyes

With...

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Leaving no trace of steps taken by those who dare chase their dreams
An unforgiving extreme of frozen Europa and charred, dried streams
A meandering maze of...

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