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Premium Member Never Abandon Stellar Ambitions
...Whoosh. Whoosh. A fire beneath steel, The engines burn, the heavens kneel. Thrum. The pulse of courage, the beating heart, Each mission a daring work of art. Seven names on C......

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Categories: houston we have a problem, appreciation, death, february, hero,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Portal - part 2
... NOTE: Please read part 1 so this makes more sense As soon as her words enter my brain I feel the force of a million gees pressing against my body, but only for a nanosecond, then nothing. Absolu......

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Categories: houston we have a problem, fantasy, suicide,
Form: Haibun



Premium Member After The Flood
... The flood waters are rising, and rising. The sandbags didn't keep out All the creepy crawlies. Caution! Do not wade into the water! H......

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Categories: houston we have a problem, encouraging, poetry,
Form: Kimo
Grab Bag Poems
...Grab Bag Poems and Epigrams POEMS Less Heroic Couplets: Dark Cloud, Silver Lining, Dupes from “Love in the Time of the Coronavirus” by Michael R. Burch Every corona has a silver lining: I......

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Categories: houston we have a problem, allegory, america, analogy, parody,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Blip
...Houston, we have a problem We’re not the first ones here Through the dust kicked up when landing I’m watching a building appear Houston calling Space Hawk You stand on virgin ground, The dus......

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Categories: houston we have a problem, confusion, space, mental health,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Adventures In Space
...(dons the Sigourney Weaver mask) Houston, we have a problem She's breaking up! I can't hold altitude! Stop opening the pod bay doors, Hal. I can’t It decided our fate in a microsecond... We’re ......

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Categories: houston we have a problem, sleep,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Chihuahua Speech
...A few weeks ago, God spoke to me from the mouth of a Chihuahua. By now, you may be saying, "Houston, we've got a problem". But hold on. Like me, you might learn something from the barking of a lit......

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Categories: houston we have a problem, dog, god,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Crocodile Tears
...When you feel No guilt whatsoever Rolling in uproarious laughter When you see Some kid "crying" On the witness stand; Houston does have a problem And something Is really rotten In Denmark......

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Categories: houston we have a problem, allusion, perspective, satire,
Form: Light Verse
Limericks I - Relatives and Relativity
...Limericks I - Relatives and Relativity The Cosmological Constant by Michael R. Burch Einstein, the frizzy-haired, said E equals MC squared. Thus all mass decreases as activity ceases? Not ......

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Categories: houston we have a problem, humor, humorous, light, nonsense,
Form: Limerick
Carrying Your Own Weight
...If you can't, Or are not prepared to carry your own weight, Then you had better have understanding friends. Without being able to carry your own weight, And not having understanding friends, T......

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Categories: houston we have a problem, age, appreciation, baptism, caregiving,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Houston We Have a Lollipop
...Houston, we have a lollipop Peppermint Patty is outside the airlock The lemon drops are handy and dandy Secure as Loony tunes on the moon Tasty as caramel popcorn parties The Eagle has landed ......

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Categories: houston we have a problem, appreciation, candy, color, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Houston We Have a Problem Here On Planet Earth
...Stardate 19 Hundred and Something The Minutes taken At the last annual general meeting of NASA The Great and Good of Finance , Politics Must have sat down together at some point A gatheri......

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Categories: houston we have a problem, care,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Harvey - Not Child's Play
...HARVEY - NOT CHILD’S PLAY Houston, we have a problem ~ where the throngs of children played, only possessions remain in giant heaps - mattresses, furniture and hefty bags brimming. ......

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Categories: houston we have a problem, storm,
Form: Free verse
Houston We Have a Problem
...Houston we have a problem Orbiting Safe space In a Bubble Viewed through Hubble We see the trouble Not on the ground But from the window of a station Circulating into critical mass Nat......

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Categories: houston we have a problem, america,
Form: Free verse
Disbelief
...~Disbelief~ The older I get The more that I see The closer I am To you're kidding me A once drop in the ocean Now a raging sea ~Disbelief~ To get to the bottom Of what's botheri......

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Categories: houston we have a problem, life,
Form: Rhyme

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