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Best Space Age Poems

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Space-Age Hooks and Barbs
It has been DECADES!

And yet, for some ridiculous reason, we 
still choose to TIE our shoes and
BUTTON our trousers, ZIP our
blouses.

How ridiculous.

When Man first invented...

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Categories: space age, philosophy
Form: Free verse



Space Age
Space Age
	
Ships float up forever out
Pilots who once sailed seas find new spirit 
Airborne crafts fill the air 
Children grow into machines that take them...

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Categories: space age, adventure, future, history, hope,
Form: Acrostic
Dawn of the Space Age
D-awn of the space-age
H-as made the world so small; 
A-n invention of hi-tech phones
L-ets anyone make a call.
E-nd of the Stone Age lets the fresh-fashioned...

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Categories: space age, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Science Fiction
Some inventors and scientists, they have both said
That science fiction books put ideas in their head
A novel that was written by Arthur C Clarke
Gave Tim...

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Categories: space age, future, science fiction, technology,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dusseldorf
In an unreal pre-dawn half-light
I gazed with much surprise
Across the darkly flowing Rhine
With newly-wakened eyes.
The vista on the river bank 
Was as within a dream.
A...

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© Peter Rees  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: space age, hope, recovery from, war,
Form: Rhyme



*****Not-So-Sapiens
Humanity’s first born child
Sits, wondering what to do
First Africa, then the world, the seven seas
And then space - the final frontier
He’s the first in line...

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Categories: space age, humorous, men, science,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Long Long Time Ago
A long long time ago, actually it was much further back than that
No one really knows the date as it's become just a human stat

Somewhere...

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Categories: space age, nostalgia, science, spacescience, time,
Form: Couplet
The Prime Directive
When Richard Feynman was asked if he believed in UFOs, extra-
terrestrial life, this was his response:
"I believe in the law of probability.  The Milky...

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© The Fringe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: space age, philosophy, visionary
Form: I do not know?
Throbbing Sentimental Pangs Trigger Nostalgic Memories of Yesteryear Deux
Now at an advanced crotchety age
namely three score plus one Earth
orbitz around the nearest star,
yours truly revisits
poignant episodes foisting
launching snapchatting

one after another crisis
sidelining ability to...

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Categories: space age, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Back To the Milky Way
We hold light in our hands
Leave all that we touch with a lasting brand
We are the sail to any vehicle of change
The tempo to progress...

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Categories: space age, inspirational, space, integrity,
Form: Rhyme
A Memory
Two-lane U.S. Highway in the Midwest.
A canyon of tall corn contains the shimmer
of the road reflecting heat
from the late sixties sky.
Sticky teal vinyl grabs the
bare...

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Categories: space age,
Form: Free verse
Variations On a Theme
Variations On A Theme...
Ach'n (ache Ken) Existential Struggle...

(NOT by Bellini, Paganini, Rossini...
Eeny Meany Miney Moe - si,
nor the three stooges tee hee hee)

twill never end...

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Categories: space age, age, birthday, depression, fantasy,
Form: Bio
Premium Member My Favourite President
there was something about him that stole the show,
his handsome face and eyes had a special glow,
from cold war he promised he would find a...

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Categories: space age, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Am For What I Am
Since the day that I first left
Looking back,
Through different windows
Knowing there will be reft

I am for what I am, and I'll be

I am for what...

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Categories: space age, fantasy, hope, people, places,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Oumuamua ------ Am I Poet Enough
look out from Hawaii
  where summit isles peek at volcan panorama
  like curious messengers scouting out ahead
  where we spied Oumuamua skim...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: space age, adventure, goodbye, hello, science,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs