Best Space Odyssey Poems

Sunrise on Mankind
lights raw survival
dawn brings the unknown
fear, intelligence
first tools and first fire.

Steps on the moon
but not alone
the ancient form
exposed, now calls

Mission on
under threat
Hal must kill

rebirth
star child

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Oh 
Your whimsical 
Words and whiles and ways 
Are like Vaseline on a chapped baby's bum
Or camomile on sunburn skin
Conservative journeys traversing the vacuum 
On the dark side of the moon
Only the true believers 
Are destined to see
If Apollo goes to plan
And the shuttle lands
The...

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Two drifting hearts 
pining to be one,
hover on the convergent surge 
of the winds of yearning.
Once fused, the primal passion 
drives their propulsion,
taking them to the carnal heights 
of cosmic longing,
consummated in celestial silence.

At the acme of surreal desire 
of magnetic craving,
the private spaces of...

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"Thus Spoke Zarathustra"
proclaims the Dawn of Man &
The Monolith

From the ancient past
to the (retro)futuristic present
as the flying bone
becomes a satellite in orbit

Blue Danube waltz
serenades space:
the Pan Am space plane 
gracefully docks with 
the space station

Ligeti’s haunting polyphony
envelopes space:
Floyd visits
The Monolith on the 
immaculately stark moon

Beautifully...

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In smoke and flames of mighty Apollo
  T-minus fifteen seconds, engines on!
O’ ship of divine distance I saw go
  when rocketeers on lunar ascent shone.
New Age Columbus kings voyage and realm
  in your Saturn V rocket to the moon -
new worlds beyond...

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My home is not made of spacecraft.
My heart is not made of fear.
My soul is not made of isolation.
No, my home is a resilient capsule that no one can breach.
I am there whenever I am weightless.
I am there whenever I am problem-solving.
I will be there...

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