Best Sputnik Poems

You found me in a shadow,
By chance alone, and still.
Within a hole I came to know:
A burden; can't fulfill.

Buried nether stories,
I've welded to my spine:
Biopolitic...

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When Mother Nature calls it's best to obey
Get your ass in there or there'll be hell to pay
Especially in public
About to launch a Sputnik
Must stay...

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There was a time when I was young
To share an era that begun
From music to the fashion trend
TV shows and history
Fads and other mysteries
I saw...

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One evening, gazing into the endless expanse,
Lured by its mystery, I sat engrossed in thoughts. 
The world around me seemed to fade and all I...

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"Human mind knows no constraints. Without spending time or money, one can make an odyssey into the outer space and even into other planets. What...

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We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the...

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The Fifties were really and truly not all that square
Though that dullard Dwight D. sat in the Executive Chair
And his frumpy wife Mamie had really...

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  "Space is beautiful to imagine but deadly to experience. "
             ...

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So boring were 1950's school reading primers --
   See Dick. See Dick run.  Run, Dick. Run, run, run.
   See Jane....

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Chapter 3: College Preparation

My freshman year started quite smooth
Touch football broke my leg
My luck we had a tennis coach,
That brought things down a peg!

My algebra...

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My mother always took the bus.  I never understood why.  We had a car, but she insisted on taking the bus uptown. ...

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I have so many places/acts dear to my heart
I’m just dying to share some with you
Not to boast, I but honor them, all played a...

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From the beginning of time there has been exploration
To undiscovered places by every rich nation
Mans great love for exploring has moved up a gear
He has...

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House hunting was a challenge
as the real estate agent drove me around,
I specified that mid-century modern 
was my dream and hoped to find it,
determined to...

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In the fifties life was simple
black and white you see
Elvis on Ed Sullivan
came across our used TV

Phones from Mother Bell
Rotary dial straight cords	
made way for...

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