Long Liftoff Poems

Enola Gay

There on the ‘North Field’ tarmac of Tinian Island, Marianas;
Taxis the sleek designed ‘Boeing B-29 Superfortress’ to ready for take-off. 1
Glistening, polished aluminum under the blaring floodlights filmed for posterity,
Maneuvers' the ‘Enola Gay’, chosen...

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(9th grade love affair with a blind cream boy and a sweet voice finger stroke magic girl in the 60's, 
unfettered with a keen process of kissing vertical in the Clark hall, hoping to go...

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Humanoids …
Machine people, we have them at our disposal.
I envy these soul less creatures for they as Angels
do not feel any kind of pain.
Our robot, Ed Burkye is a French guy,
the machine person, although
I do...

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"Thoughts of a Sexual Nature"


Vivid thoughts of you,
in your birthday suit.
Sprawled on my living room floor,
anxiously you wait
for what you came here for.
Long toned legs,
a rippled mid-section.
I want to hear you beg,
you caused this erection.

Incense...

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i ignored their existence, except for one snapshot.
i didn’t know you could shop. i was not caught

up in the spiral, the velocity, the thunder to the top.
where was i? i was a jump, skip and...

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Chapter Seven: Spaced 
Chapter Seven: Spaced 
 
Cheph111 outward bound 
liftoff ten minus none 
 
The trip from the planet's surface was almost instantaneous the crew were 
webbed in bunks and floating in gspaces the...

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And I feel, feel so empty
Feel so empty inside
I oh! I,  I can't fly
I can't FLY
I'm not shy...
And the dove does fly...
And the dove does fly away
to the heavens through the clear blue skies;
And...

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You made me feel
Now I have to deal

You made me love when no one else could
But now I have to do something that is not good

You made me happy when skies were gray
But now that...

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It was the year two thousand eighty-five
when we boarded Starship Sator Arepo.
Astronauts are we, seeking adventures in the cosmic seas
while looking for rogue planets beyond the Milky Way.

3... 2... 1...Liftoff!

We hurled through space at the...

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Horsepower
David J Walker

It occurs to me that while
Horses can run
Could they actually pull a
Rocketship past the moon 
Headed to the sun? 
Apollo 11, for instance,
And just for fun 
Is said to have had 
32 million...

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A super seismic year
Eargasmically one to revere

Sweet pulsating sounds
Bebop starting to slow down

Yes!  A new, a brand new, from an "OLD"
A new form that is undefined but it feels good to the soul

A new...

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he released the long-form 
of his birth certificate

toured the tornado-stricken south 
with  mayors and governors

flew to NASA  to watch the 
final liftoff of a U. S. space shuttle 

gave U.S. Navy Seals permission...

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From birth I knew my hero
I called him “Tony”
Drafted in 1967
No choice to go or stay

To young to drink or vote
He went to war for this country
On September 16th 1968
He was brought down by a...

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Back to the city we go
We leave you winter ghosts
To sway away on your hanger hosts
Until next year or never more

It depends on my poor dad
If he can dress himself
Next spring
Still in his UAW gear.

I...

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Whirling wings launching into liftoff,
propelling quickly through a changing sky.
A loud sound, so extremely familiar, 
heard by all, when it, comes flying by. 

A battle buddy, in a soldier's horizon,
from the sky, to directly assist.
Becoming...

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Bullets bullets flying, hitting there targets from afar
Blood dripping from a bandage with looks of fear
Tiny tiny pellets within, exploding going through helmets
Snipers pinning down these hero's, to the ground

Liftoff choppers with red cross, yellow...

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Ultimate Sunset
by Michael R. Burch

for my father, Paul Ray Burch, Jr. 

he now faces the Ultimate Sunset,
his body like the leaves that fray as they dry,
shedding their vital fluids (who knows why?)
till they’ve become even...

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