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Best Liftoff Poems


Three Way Collaboration
..."Thoughts of a Sexual Nature"


Vivid thoughts of you,
in your birthday suit.
Sprawled on my living room floor,
anxiously you wait
for what you came here for.
Long toned legs,
a rippled mid-......

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Categories: liftoff, fantasy, passionbirthday, love,
Form: Free verse
Depression Poem
...You made me feel
Now I have to deal

You made me love when no one else could
But now I have to do something that is not good

You made me happy when skies were gray
But now that hope has gone ......

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Categories: liftoff, deep, goodbye, sad love,
Form: Rhyme
1959
...A super seismic year
Eargasmically one to revere

Sweet pulsating sounds
Bebop starting to slow down

Yes! A new, brand new form from an "OLD"
A new form that is undefined but feels good to th......

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Categories: liftoff, appreciation, beautiful, birth, black
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member To Fly
...It would be a pure adrenaline freedom thrill to fly.
Flight motion is a dreamy adventure I would savor. 
How excited I would be to Peter Pan the sky.

I feel certain the atmosphere would gladly c......

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Categories: liftoff, dream, fantasy, flying, freedom,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member The Presser
...the Buzz, Collins, Armstrong, applause.
first man, there were three
earthlings who were projected into space.
crowded, not of this world
of celebration and glory.
before lights flashing......

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Categories: liftoff, history, moon,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Sweet Susan
...(9th grade love affair with a blind cream boy and a sweet voice finger stroke magic girl in the 60's, 
unfettered with a keen process of kissing vertical in the Clark hall, hoping to go   un-but eve......

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Categories: liftoff, emotions, funny love, girlfriend,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Enola Gay
...Enola Gay

There on the ‘North Field’ tarmac of Tinian Island, Marianas;
Taxis the sleek designed ‘Boeing B-29 Superfortress’ to ready for take-off. 1
Glistening, polished aluminum ......

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Categories: liftoff, education, history, usa, war,
Form: Verse
Within a Week
...he released the long-form 
of his birth certificate

toured the tornado-stricken south 
with  mayors and governors

flew to NASA  to watch the 
final liftoff of a U. S. space shuttle 

gave ......

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Categories: liftoff, dedication, history, inspirational, on
Form: Free verse
Humanoids
...Humanoids …
Machine people, we have them at our disposal.
I envy these soul less creatures for they as Angels
do not feel any kind of pain.
Our robot, Ed Burkye is a French guy,
the machine pers......

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Categories: liftoff, philosophy,
Form: Verse
Balerethon
...Balerethon

A flying
Saucer
A baloney
Sandwich
Dancing
To
The
Tick
Of
Your
Clock
Alien
Stepping
Proudly
Gracefully
Through
The
Hoops
Of 
Brooklyn
Night
Morning
Liftoff
Leftof......

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Categories: liftoff, dedication
Form: Free verse
Cottage Closing
...Back to the city we go
We leave you winter ghosts
To sway away on your hanger hosts
Until next year or never more

It depends on my poor dad
If he can dress himself
Next spring
Still in his U......

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Categories: liftoff, longing, loss, moving on,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Horsepower
...Horsepower
David J Walker

It occurs to me that while
Horses can run
Could they actually pull a
Rocketship past the moon 
Headed to the sun? 
Apollo 11, for instance,
And just for fun 
Is s......

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Categories: liftoff, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Morning
...2015-05-20

Morning

This small fragment of my daily routine,
bathed in, drowned in coffee and cream.
When the animal inside my head awakes
my world rocks and rolls, quivers, quakes.
I love t......

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Categories: liftoff, celebration, good morning,
Form: Rhyme
Chapter Seven: Spaced
...Chapter Seven: Spaced 
Chapter Seven: Spaced 
 
Cheph111 outward bound 
liftoff ten minus none 
 
The trip from the planet's surface was almost instantaneous the crew were 
webbed in bunks and......

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Categories: liftoff, adventure, natural disasters, science
Form: Free verse
Bullets Flying
...Bullets bullets flying, hitting there targets from afar
Blood dripping from a bandage with looks of fear
Tiny tiny pellets within, exploding going through helmets
Snipers pinning down these hero's......

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Categories: liftoff, war,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things