Best Martian Poems

I would have loved Santa to have visited us here
In his coat of red and his eight brown reindeer
Sadly there is no atmosphere left on earth
So we moved to Mars, it’s the place of my birth
Hushed secret stories are told about Santa Claus
But he’s outlawed...

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We have a new opponent entering the game
Bugs has some competition and Marvin is his name
He’s a bit out of this world but that’s nothing new
He gets very, very angry, but that’s just between me and you

We invaded his home planet looking for clues
He has...

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When first we landed and quickly  saw
What looked like Larry's mother-in-law
It just had to be
Anyone could see
It had good old mom's receding jaw


With Apologies to Larry Belt and his 
mother-in-law...

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MAVEN tastes the air
too thin to hold oceans' broth
wafted on Sol's winds.



Note: this is my entry for NASA's "Going To Mars" campaign.  I believe it deserves to win, because in 17 syllables it not only summarizes MAVEN's (Mars Atmospheric Volatile EvolutioN) mission, but also...

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A fledgling reporter discovered the story of a lifetime
Tim O’Hara came upon an alien aircraft that had crashed
He took pity on the sole survivor who’d committed no crime
Helping him out of the strange orb that in a barren desert smashed 

Tim brought the alien home...

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 Martian Olympiad


Imagine if our Olympic stars,
took spacecraft to host Planet Mars.
Defying gravity’s no longer in.
Athletes float in an atmosphere thin.

Space vehicles race the rocky craters.
Our hosts have skin like alligators.
We skate the polar ice crags.
Compete for gold in laser tag.

Most the events will take...

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There was a Martian, whose name was Fred.
Who had a Venusian girlfriend, who said?
Fred is a ghastly lover.
He will only hover.
He has no feet or hair on his head....

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This Martian was as mean as it gets
He ran out of Martian cigarettes. 
He landed his spaceship on earth,
At a highway rest stop near Perth,
and found plenty by trailing the pets.

© Mar 13 2010
Placed 3rd in "Out of This World Limerick contest"...

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The Martian on Grape Lane

I touched the sea, the sea touched me,
not far from where the mermaids play.
Swaddled in a world where I could not stay,
I was caught in time, floating away.

I took her to York on a scheme
for love and black cherry ice cream.
Kittens,...

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I’m so much in love with a lass from above
It leaves such a knot in my gut
For it’s hard to kiss, one’s favourite miss
When her tongue dangles out of her butt

Her eyes grow on stalks, which sway when she walks
And I really like licking her...

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The Martian Mork  
Loved the American Mindy 
   He -- animated, yet robotic-formal
   She -- cute, though annoyingly normal...

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Gentlemen, Operation Sleep-Freeze is an important mission.
All of you are aware of the unfavorable phenomenon.
Success is critical for survival of our civilization.
You are to capture and retain five suitable women.
Please remember to make a very discriminate selection.
We have chosen a landing spot the earthlings call...

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Well MARTIAN GENESIS says that
Mars was once a living breathing planet
And more advanced than the Earth is
Today thousands and thousands years
Ago but something catastrophic happened
And they had to flee quite quickly...
So they escaped in their mother ship and
Flew on down to a primitive Earth just...

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Suddenly the tallest mountain set on fire,
And I suddenly leaped three times higher,
Oh God, I wondered ''Is this your wrath''?
But wait, wait, I guessed that was not Earth!
There was a beautiful sunrise,
But the sun was half of it's size.
Barren yet beautiful, red yet...

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