Long Orbited Poems

Poem 1: A Boy And His Painted Piano

he used lively greens
tender blues,
touches of plain mauve 
and rainbow trout splatters
to paint music
on the gas fumes 
that inhabited the clean air
that once use to live there.

he made...

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I spin, faster and faster…    
losing control, I am a propeller rising.
Once, you were my mystery to solve,
my gift to unwrap -
my challenge, my highest vista to climb.
You lifted me to your...

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Himalayas

Eons ago in the planet’s evolution,
During tectonic plate movement: 1
The Indian Island Ma moved northward
Crashing into the Eurasian continent,
To form the Himalayan mountains. 2

Out of the chaos, towering peaks arose,
Piercing heavenly soft, white cotton clouds,
Bursting...

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As an earth bound entity
Encased in this organic form
That decays moment to moment
Bewildered by illusion, thus in delusion
We are asked to repent and believe
That we may return to God’s fold
Wherefrom we strayed away
Termed as fall...

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Sputnik Scare

The beep-beep-beep signal scare,
From the Sputnik artificial satellite
Orbiting the earth; broadcast through air
Continued for twenty-two minutes
Until the batteries ran out.

The Russians are first in space!
And America is on edge:
Perceptions of a missile gap and...

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I admit tubby distracted by a modeling
female physique when attempting to write,
an aching agony rips thru this son,
gripping with hard on – tight -
by Dickens constricting sensation,

who orbited the sun LX times
coon sitters himself heterosexual...

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Its Hidden Messages in my Texts
worth Examining 
you can see the Chosen from The Strangling
beatens an chains
all linked to a prophecy ordained
I've looked through documents for the Author of this Manuscript 
Which is me the...

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The Path To Least Resistance - 
By: Sue S. Side

Amp pull ease just sparked insight,
I suddenly became aware,
(actually self actualization
came ohm to roost - dare
ring with mighty stir since this

Earthling orbited thru the atmosphere
back in...

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One day, watching a reddened evening sky 
over the western horizon, it’s peculiar though, 
a thought that is so preposterous suddenly came to my mind
and that was the earth is not revolving. Is it because...

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In April of '57 the US got quite the shock
   The Soviets launched Sputnik
   The space satellite rock  
We fell behind in the race from that very day,
That is, until...

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Take this time to heal 


A fresh, crisp, frosty morning, the sky a tranquil blue
The Sun begins to shine and the frost turns into dew
The birds continue singing, the flowers start to bloom
The world still...

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The chant goes on “We are the dead”
as such a shocking song
In my head set it repeats “We are the dead”
Our mission was over 
So we returned to Earth today
It had started once within we...

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Aerospace Grade Materials

There is both fear and defiance in this horse's eye, but why?

The horse was NOT scared
I’m a war horse and nobody messes me with me
Not even aliens who think they’re big and hard!
Or...

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How fast the years did clip and leap away,
till your Earth orbitz count ninety decades
+ uno journeys orbited around mister sun
encompassing metaphorical magnum opus
figuratively paginated bound compendium,

whereby chronology Boyce Brandon Harris
also known as papa san...

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Early in life worthlessness prevailed employ
ying gnawing, infecting thought processes
did more than annoy
rooted, short circuited, and tasered
flickr happiness lived

spontaneous bobbing sponging buoy
clinging to mother's
apron string series
of unfortunate events
conspired to destroy

that extremely introverted
shy locked lad, and...

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Narcissus


Once upon a timelessness 
after a re-occurring dream 
awoke wired and restless 
with a relentless curiosity. 

An unlikely poster child 
creature of terrible beauty 
freed from its muted haze 
fiery in spirit 
its kaleidoscopic variations...

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A   BUTTERFLY   BLOWING   BUBBLES

I was catching bubbles in a butterfly net for beauty’s sake
Needless ‘tis to say sans any success
The second I secured one it would summarily break
And I...

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To my little star,
She twinkles the most in the obscure, somber sky.
Though she is found so far, so far, yet she shines gleams happy.
Her dust: stardust the little silver powder which was left to me.
I...

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(As Galileo left the session of the Inquisition
at which he had been forced to deny his own
discovery that the earth orbited the sun, and
had to "admit" that the earth was static, he
murmured, "eppur si muove"...

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Four Billion years or thereabouts
Earth has orbited its appointed place
Slowly and surely developing into
A safe and hospitable living space 

What a strange year this has been
Year Two Thousand and Twenty Two
You seem to have bern...

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Once the centre of creation 
Orbited by a sun and every star
Until  growing knowledge showed 
Just how insignificant we really are.
Riding a spec of dust at a Galaxy rim,
Occupying our out of the way...

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Something haunts the moon's face I cannot fathom now
Something I should trace, but cannot put into place
A silence that quietly sleeps on that beautiful brow
A hint of sadness veiled by the brightness of her grace

Is...

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Rise up, Scion of La Mancha.

Destiny orbited all that you were
and encompassed all that you possessed.

Windmills stood ten-fold to the fore
when you readied your lance 
and saddled your barn nag.

Its whipped hide and ungulated 
hoofs...

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Warbling otters never fly in pans. So be mindful when taking oneself on an extended journey to the never ever. Bats can be great fortesses. Fodder for god. Wow. Swoosh. How quite ridiculous an arrow...

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I found her as a whispered line in an editorial
stuck on the silk folds of a silver jubilee
like regret.

She had bled once in a different continent
A red thread pulled taut at thirteen
Doctors sealed the loom...

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