Long Cosmonaut Poems

NOT   JUST   ANY   SUNSET

This lunar sunset was what he’d most miss  -
They always said death was like this : 
Slo-mo and black-and-white
Like an old movie trite.
It had happened...

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THE BLUE MOON

Shimmer does it not this inspirational ivory opal,
Lightly dinted with a thin sheen of aquatic blue,
Illuminations elliptical transparent veil, a drapery
Suspended by heavens orbiting web called gravity!
Shingles tacked in by star nails, fastened...

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American cosmonaut
	moonwalking
Humanity is tethered to the line,
sweating vacuum fear facing the void
Planet of the apes ...
	backwards talking
Silent film projector reel
spinning in reverse ... time capsule re-entry noise
Caveman slug in a spacesuit
	retrograde crawling
Mushroom cloud cinematography ......

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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 accepted a new challenge; the final frontier.

Nineteen fifty seven saw...

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Vostok 1

Within the time allotted
of eighty-nine minutes,
to orbit the planet
at 17,500 miles per hour;
The Russian Cosmonaut
inside the Vostok capsule
espies the distinctive
features of earth,
from two hundred miles above
its surface.

And reflects upon
the physical violence
of energetic movement
that formed...

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Pollution, climate change and toxicity
We have to make clean many a city
Virus free culture and civic amenity
If possible we vacate the earth kitty
So that a complete sanitization 
Ensures the safe future generation
DNA of alien species...

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Summer boulder-boots wear my thoughts
Thoughts warmed by winter coat maligned in poison oak
With an indelicate left-breast
Pocket inscription stating the obvious
 “Boys Don’t Cry” 
(Simply put and rich in depth, obviously) 
All together, together all. ...

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As I sat at my window, gazing at the night sky,
All alone enjoying the scented breeze,
The darkness of night struck my vision,
My mind, heart and soul moved to a dream land,
I started feeling the lonely...

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They say to be an artist you’re probably crazy.
They say to see in that kind of darkness you must be crazy.What they don’t know is most of us are.
How do you think I could navigate...

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Apologies for the opprobrious actions that have been brought             

For Thee, who descended from the exalted throne of Camelot    ...

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The full Moon shines upon us on this Earth
Exquisite in its shape and in its girth

Lighting up the World from where ever we may be
In England, sunny Eastbourne, to Miami by the sea 

Through a...

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If on earth it is called Nevada
Then in space it will be Escapada
From space how the stars twinkle
And my earth’s many a dimple 
Want to have zing like athlete
To fit the norms of a cosmonaut
Miles...

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COSMO: ASTRO

       Russian Cosmonaut
       or. Markin Astronaut
        on space expedition.
      ...

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