Best Orbited Poems
A Friendly Goodbye
...Poem 1: A Boy And His Painted Piano
he used lively greens
tender blues,
touches of plain mauve
and rainbow trout splatters
to paint music
on the gas fumes
that inhabited the clean air
tha......
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Categories:
orbited, beauty,
Form:
Free verse
Gift To Myself
...I spin, faster and faster…
losing control, I am a propeller rising.
Once, you were my mystery to solve,
my gift to unwrap -
my challenge, my highest vista to climb.
You lifted me......
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Categories:
orbited, break up, emotions, identity,
Form:
Free verse
Eppur Si Muove
...(As Galileo left the session of the Inquisition
at which he had been forced to deny his own
discovery that the earth orbited the sun, and
had to "admit" that the earth was static, he
murmured, "e......
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Categories:
orbited, satire,
Form:
Terza Rima
Our Universe
...~*~
She floated down
on a shimmering
moonbeam
and my eyes
saw starlight
glowing in her
cosmic smile
as perfect love
orbited my
......
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Categories:
orbited, good night,
Form:
Free verse
Enchanting Shadows
...So distant was love from her heart to mine,
We orbited different worlds
Yet we spun with a passion on destiny's path
Rotating with desire as we eclipsed;
The enchanting shadow of love, for a......
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Categories:
orbited, stars,
Form:
Free verse
Himalayas
...Himalayas
Eons ago in the planet’s evolution,
During tectonic plate movement: 1
The Indian Island Ma moved northward
Crashing into the Eurasian continent,
To form the Himalayan m......
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Categories:
orbited, culture, education, environment, mountains,
Form:
Verse
To the Moon
...In April of '57 the US got quite the shock
The Soviets launched Sputnik
The space satellite rock
We fell behind in the race from that very day,
That is, until we elected a President named......
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Categories:
orbited, america, leadership, moon, race,
Form:
Rhyme
Glitch
...Its Hidden Messages in my Texts
worth Examining
you can see the Chosen from The Strangling
beatens an chains
all linked to a prophecy ordained
I've looked through documents for the Author of th......
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Categories:
orbited, deep, earth, truth, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
For Him
...I wore cashmere
and splashed Chantilly on my skin.
I wore cashmere
for him who orbited my sphere.
Sweet smelling, soft and feminine,
I lived to put him in a spin. . .
I wore cashmere.
......
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Categories:
orbited, romance,
Form:
Rondeau
Earth Does Not Revolve
...One day, watching a reddened evening sky
over the western horizon, it’s peculiar though,
a thought that is so preposterous suddenly came to my mind
and that was the earth is not revolving. Is it......
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Categories:
orbited, earth, metaphor, seasons, ,
Form:
Free verse
The Prodigal Son Returns
...
As an earth bound entity
Encased in this organic form
That decays moment to moment
Bewildered by illusion, thus in delusion
We are asked to repent and believe
That we may return to God......
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Categories:
orbited, spiritual, , hinduism,
Form:
Free verse
Sputnik Scare
...Sputnik Scare
The beep-beep-beep signal scare,
From the Sputnik artificial satellite
Orbiting the earth; broadcast through air
Continued for twenty-two minutes
Until the batteries ran o......
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Categories:
orbited, history, space, war,
Form:
Verse
Quest
...The first exploration was to the moon
Where we saw how its craters are hewn
We have orbited Jupiter to unveil the shroud
and unlocked the mystery beneath its dense cloud,
Man's curiousity has......
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Categories:
orbited, moon, planet, space, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
Free Cee of Bricks and Bubbles
...A BUTTERFLY BLOWING BUBBLES
I was catching bubbles in a butterfly net for beauty’s sake
Needless ‘tis to say sans any success
The second I secured one it would summarily break
And I left ......
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Categories:
orbited, angst, metaphor, butterfly,
Form:
Chastushka
I Bet
...I bet you don't see the stars in his eyes
The galaxies that encompass his mind
The beauty of darkness
Held within a heart
That never knew how to love
I bet you can't comprehend his thoughts......
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Categories:
orbited, heart, hurt, i love
Form:
Free verse