Best Telescope Poems

Time can be counted in milliseconds
Pay attention
To the cracks in the pavement
Where the sand grains no longer held their cement

The proverbial elephant
Resides in a matchbox of contented intent

And measure by micrometers
The distance of hairs
As a tiny mote floats into a sea of stars
Still wondering where...

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Watching live go by through a telescope
A mere voyeur on the other side
I see a world I no longer feel apart of
From down in the gutter
Where I reside.

Life going by so fast
Trapped and haunted by my past
Mt feet stuck in concrete
I can no longer move...

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Earthly telescope
witnessing birth of new worlds
blessed are those who see...

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The hardened heart of man remains
Dissected by each border.
Hoax headlines heading to the street
By chaos wings of bloody order.
Sedated nations wade in tar
As Earth accrues its human burden...
Slow and turn your thirsty car,
Consume the fumes, and close the curtain.

Was it you who drugged the skies?
And...

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A bundle from the past -
the 1930’s and ‘40’s.
A wisp of his breath…I’m breathless.
Did he know his love story would last?

1941 envelope -
my fingers glide over the sleeve.
I tenderly take out the note,
the sweet poetry…telescope

peering into the days of yore.
Grandpa won his sweetheart with words:
“From...

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If you leave a mouse a telescope,
I'm sure he'll look through it.
If you leave that scope upon a hill,
I'm sure that's where he'll sit.

If you leave it there in dark of night,
I'm sure he'll try to find a light
that's round and bright and made of...

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I saw again
The landscape arid and dry
Blooming sand dunes before my eye
I saw the pain
On the pyramids' face
Saw the hunt and decapitation of the race
Only those chosen can ever stand
Long enough to crumble in the sand.
The chosen are so few
And so other in their point...

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I saw again 
The landscape arid and dry 
Blooming sand dunes before my eye 
I saw the pain 
On the pyramids' face 
Saw the hunt and decapitation of the race 
Only those chosen can ever stand 
Long enough to crumble in the sand. 
The chosen...

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BROKEN TELESCOPE

Hung
from mouth
hitched to
Heaven by
this sleek steel 
blade bungee
jumping
over rooftops
apocalyptic
vapors of gas
fizzle and 
spout



Hung
broken 
telescope
stars have fallen 
from dark sky
floored
they lay where
I have no doubt
one by one they
will flicker
out


© Kim van Breda—4 January 2016...

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Miles from our world up - the crash; like comet, in deep...

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Grope slopes of love doves through your palpitation periscope
Sacrifice the price of neglect notoriety, preserve the verve of hope
Multiply and gratify the clue and value of courtesy
Divide glides, prides and slides of mock mercy.   

Grope slopes of love doves through your happiness horoscope
Sacrifice...

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I
James Webb - wise investment by USA
After Hubble's wonders, now light
Billions of years, perhaps since Big Bang
Seen by humans; J. Biden's pride
In America's foresight, help folk, help science
When most nations notoriously lack basics
But not for want of money, mandacity there
Prayers here don't make muster (loadshedding)
But...

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How would appear the entire designed universe
Whose guidance will prove fruitful
Whose friendship be ever trustworthy
Which plant would endure health
Which animal’s flesh, milk prove to be edible
Which perseverance would reap success
Who to land first on the moon
Who to sail the English channel
‘He’ knew them all
And could...

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View the planets and the stars
 See the beauty that is Mars,
 Look at the heavens in all its splendor
 Observe the galaxies it may render

 Distant stars in all their glory
 As the universe tells its story,
 Look at all of Saturn's rings,
 And...

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Will event of creation be revealed
By the James Webb telescope
Concentrating time
Like a kaleidescope?
Galaxy after Galaxy
Slowly being revealed.
Will the moment of Creation
Always remain concealed?
Will we ever see the glory
Of the birth of timespace,
Can James Webb ever show us
Creation taking place
Or will that event remain
Tantalisingly out of...

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