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Best Lift Off Poems

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Lift - Off .
The " Airhead "  Spaceship  was  starting .

The  Astronaut " Bimbo "  departing .

She  really  looked  cute

In...

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© Sean Kelly  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lift off, funny
Form: Limerick



A Pocketful of Dreams
I have a pocket Full of dreams
that, I carry wherever I go
I wonder what dreams I'll dream tonight
for I never seem to know

I closed my...

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Categories: lift off, childhood, children, dream, fun,
Form: Ballad
The Big Bang
Time: T minus 3 minutes
Launch Control: It's a go
He's in love
going where
he's never gone before
with the woman
a light brown goddess
that hurtles him into outer space...

Mission...

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Categories: lift off, beautiful, creation, love, space,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Time
The clock was ticking and the countdown had begun, the moment had now arrived  when myself and six other astronauts would blast off from...

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Categories: lift off, journey, space,
Form: Free verse
The Bluebells
We wandered
into the realm of the bluebells
that dwell in the flood plain
after the spring rains.

Carefully 
we stepped 
through the blue kingdom
along the streams.

We could not...

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Categories: lift off, flower, nature,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Paper Airplanes
Paper Airplanes
I made paper airplanes decades ago
One super creation I named Zoomo 
Once my Zoomo and I took off in flight
Lift off was on the...

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Categories: lift off, adventure, childhood, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Astronomers
Teleporting into your giant...galaxy 
Eclipsed in time...lost in outer space.
Jumping from start to star
While...holding one captive.

My love comets...yearning...your quaker body,
As...asteroids...attack my sensitive...soul.
A magnetic field...forces my...

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Categories: lift off, adventure, fantasy, passionlove, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Bicycle Lesson
For half an hour, 
he was a few feet in front of me,
trying to tame the little metal beast,  
jittery under the torrent of...

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Categories: lift off, child, father, growing up,
Form: Free verse
The Vampire Monk, Part Iv
IV.
I believed I was done with the vampire ways
and gave thanks for all that had transpired,
but before three months passed, from just outside
I heard the...

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Categories: lift off, change, dark, evil, faith,
Form: Epic
Thou Art No Lesser, O Pink Flamingo
Thou art no migrant bird, O Pink Beauty,
But forced art to fly many a long miles
Looking for fresh habitat and water,
In search of new breeding...

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Categories: lift off, bird,
Form: Ode
Solitude: To Yoda, An Ode
Green bark a prism creates,
Feel the pull of earth, you must.

Rotates, a slime of endless hates,
Can hold me not, this world’s crust.

Friendship’s ties, isolation Deflates,
Succumbs,...

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© Dan Keir  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lift off, adventure, angst, confusion, dark,
Form: Bio
The Vent
im livin in a world, where all eyes on me.
trying to curve my own route.
but route 66 keeps finding its way to me.
ive been plenty...

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Categories: lift off, addiction, adventure, art, beautiful,
Form: ABC
Five Letter Word
Five Letter Word

Theres a five letter word thats messing with people’s heads
It a five letter word that causes so much stress
and you wouldnt think that...

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Categories: lift off, spoken word,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Pain of Drought
The Pain of Drought

By

Kevin L Fairbrother



The road trains full of emancipated cattle roar by

Heading south to somewhere that is lush and green

For the big dry...

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Categories: lift off, death, emotions,
Form: Verse
The Rocket
3,2,1...
Ignition Button Lit,
The Light Glows Bright, Eyes intense, focused 
Your little thumb presses, waiting 
Switch engaged, fuse is smoking,
The engine fires and spreads its hot...

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Categories: lift off, adventure, blessing, father, hero,
Form: Free verse

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