Long Goddard Poems

“Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.” - Woody Allen

When I was much younger, previous decades seemed so distant, so far away. To me these older and impossible decades existed only...

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"The Eagle has landed”

Apollo 11 lunar module named “Eagle”
prediction defied naysayers ain't no boon
dog gull announced successful landing
while voice of Ole Blue eyes did croon

in Sea of Tranquility on moon
sometime about high noon
halting advancing armies
from...

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Quote: “It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.” -- Robert H. Goddard 

Oh, yesterday, the tales we're told, ...

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She was taken by bears, that was the consensus,
dragged off in her sleeping bag; tracks confirmed.

Later the child was eaten, but not before she died of old age.

She lodged with the Grizzlies, growing sturdy, unusually...

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I advocate Bible-Reading (for other Faiths, other Scripture), Prayer, and Outreach to Creation (or the macrocosm). All three will help us live responsibly, fruitfully, and at Peace (versus peacefully). But why do I have reservations...

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She was taken by bears;
that was the unlikely consensus -
dragged off in her sleeping bag, 
tracks confirmed.

She lodged with the grizzlies, 
growing sturdy, unusually hirsute
for a human girl, 
but pretty in a wide-bottomed way.
Eventually she...

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the ladder is metallic 
a shiny gun metal blue
light weight and telescopic

14ft tall or nearest the sod
as high or as low as i like it
i will displace myself upon it

i can lean it where and...

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When Socretes, Plato and Aristotle teamed,
the line between the will to learn married the will to teach.
When Raphael, Leonardo, and Michael lived at Belvedere,
Art would see her form take shape and pave the way for...

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"Happy Mother's Day Heather!"
written by Michelle L. LeBlanc 2025, May 6
(Dedicated to Heather Goddard-Fallon)


I hope on Mother's Day 
You see the beautiful you
With a heart of gold 
And a light that shines through 

You care...

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Black, empty, cold and dark
What are you then if not a spark
Of life exists in you,
You pointless mass of infinity?

I don’t see you, yet I have thee in my sights
From some accretion disk or otherwise
Like...

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Transparency And Blame
Written: by Miracle Man
3/14/2020

He preaches from a pulpit made entirely of glass,
who points the blame finger in another direction.
Oblivious to the fact it exhibits no class,
concern is felt only for personal deflection.

Attaching blame,...

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DE PAULETTE GODDARD
ON PAULETTE GODDARD

From a child fashion model into a screen actress
Born in New York City at the start of the 20th century,
Paulette to New York University was a benefactress.

From a child fashion model...

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