Best Orbited Poems

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
that once use to live there.

he made the ugly decaying
neighborhood i lived in
bearable on even the worse...

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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 to your private skies.
Spread out before me on red-winged flights,
eradicated stars came...

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(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, "eppur si muove" ("but it moves").


It's hard to live in Lilliput, I find....

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~*~

She floated down 
    on a shimmering 
  moonbeam
       and my eyes
    saw starlight
         glowing in her 
   cosmic smile
  ...

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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 moment in time,
 Fell on distant hearts, passing through...

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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 mountains. 2

Out of the chaos, towering peaks arose,
Piercing heavenly soft, white cotton clouds,
Bursting into clear blue skies as Earth revolved,
And orbited the sun...

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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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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 this Manuscript 
Which is me the Key the King to a degree only the oppressors see...

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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.

Written By Andrea Dietrich
for the Contest of nette onclaud:
"Weave a Rondelet"...

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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 because the world was 
too quiet?  Or the world was...

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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’s fold
Wherefrom we strayed away
Termed as fall from grace

As an agnostic we pause
Evaluating this religious call
Allowing that...

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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 out.

The Russians are first in space!
And America is on edge:
Perceptions of a missile gap and space control,
To thoughts of a war with nuclear bombs;
As people...

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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 taken him to Mars
 He's seen Saturn's rings as he journeyed...

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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 with but bubbles that burst to confess

First I was...

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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 that embody black holes 
Lost within the calamity...

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