Long Sputnik Poems

We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when...

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I have so many places/acts dear to my heart
I’m just dying to share some with you
Not to boast, I but honor them, all played a part,
I'm sure helped to bring me in your view!

Tell me...

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My mother always took the bus.  I never understood why.  We had a car, but she insisted on taking the bus uptown.  I think she did it because father would not let...

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Chapter 3: College Preparation

My freshman year started quite smooth
Touch football broke my leg
My luck we had a tennis coach,
That brought things down a peg!

My algebra was like a dream,
Played tennis, found it fun,
And Science Fairs...

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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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"Human mind knows no constraints. Without spending time or money, one can make an odyssey into the outer space and even into other planets. What is needed is the fuel of imagination."  - By...

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Hillary drives a vehicle to the south pole,
Gibson gives us the Flying V.
In football we can now score an extra two points,
and Legos blocks first hit the street.

50 inches of snow on Mason Dixon line,
no...

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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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There was a time when I was young
To share an era that begun
From music to the fashion trend
TV shows and history
Fads and other mysteries
I saw them all as time moved on

From classic pop to rock...

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We had wringers on our washing machines, 
And four dialed numbers made telephones ring.
Transistor radios with only AM, 
Vineal records to play, and you could stack them.
And, Hope entertained during our wars.

We had Jack Benny,...

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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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  "Space is beautiful to imagine but deadly to experience. "
                       ...

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The Fifties were really and truly not all that square
Though that dullard Dwight D. sat in the Executive Chair
And his frumpy wife Mamie had really bad hair
Matching those dowdy, plain dresses she'd wear ...

While husbands...

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Dwight D. Eisenhower, a heroic general in World War Two
  Elected thirty-fourth President of the USA in 1952 

Fondly remembered as an American Golden Age 
  His era had its fair share of...

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One evening, gazing into the endless expanse,
Lured by its mystery, I sat engrossed in thoughts. 
The world around me seemed to fade and all I knew I was buoyed up.
I was traveling through inter galactic...

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Soccer Match
And so we've finally reached midnight, 
The question was, why did it take so long?
Now the forces of war and darkness are ready for evenfall.

The nuclear clock ran out of time.

It started when Turkey...

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Sixty years ago, Autumn was the season,
Seven minutes was all it took that dark night
Like a freshman, a little short of reason,
I had no clue what the future held in sight.

Maybe I would teach, or...

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Sunset

Deep into that darkness sun setting
the termination brought such sorrow
Sky - sky - sky! Lo lowers in the skies
my mind always strays to space darken now the sunset
It was out of place, boldface, sly! yon...

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Do you remember 
  'Ding-Dong School'
An 'educational TV show'
  Who were they trying to fool

Were the viewers at home
  or the teachers the ding-dongs
That I can't answer, but
  about the music...

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The vastness of space is a fascinating enigma;
It mesmerizes everyone who falls into it.
If you fall once, then you will begin to sink.
Nature has fabricated the universe into a paradise,
Even if it accommodates hazards, it...

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You found me in a shadow,
By chance alone, and still.
Within a hole I came to know:
A burden; can't fulfill.

Buried nether stories,
I've welded to my spine:
Biopolitic territories,
Ancient ruins, un-divine.

I floated in that shadow,
Embracing darkness wet.
Drenching moisture—catacomb—
Until...

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Wham-o’s old Pluto Platter,
gets a brand-new name.
Fred and Ethel say farewell,
Dick Clarke gets his fame.

The Cat in the Hat is born,
Bogie has moved on.
Hurricane Audrey rages,
while Paul meets with John.

Sputnik said that space is now,
the...

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The new language
It is not the blatant lies that bother me, the truth has become weaponized
In the form that lies are between the lines become a new way of speaking.
I read what RT has to...

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Let's start out by saying that love's not a picnic,
Though blue sky's de rigueur, there's no guarantee,
In love, you may feel you are higher than Sputnik,
But if she's "the one," can you say your heart's...

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House hunting was a challenge
as the real estate agent drove me around,
I specified that mid-century modern 
was my dream and hoped to find it,
determined to be patient and not have a fit. 

At an open...

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