Race For Place In Space
...Working on Seattle and Italy's Cinque Terre' right
now. Just finished Seattle and am halfway through
the Cinque Terre' puzzle. Some of it's pieces are
rather faded though. You have to use pictu...
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Categories:
mcauliffe, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Heart Disconnected
...All the times I loved you
Before my heart was shattered
Crying and screaming at the phone
Dead, my heart slowly beats
End this pain called a breakup
Falling through the endless pits
Gone, my he...
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Categories:
mcauliffe, angst,
Form: ABC
Throttle Up, Challenger
...Synchronicity woven by fate’s volatile hands
Gave rise to calamity in deceptive, calm skies
Creating tragedy so harsh that reason defies
Into a nation’s sad heart, a mortal arrow lands
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Categories:
mcauliffe, grief, space,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
The Apollo Horizon
...I am not a sanctuary
do not come to me for sanctuary,
I am a supernova, the Saturn V rocket
prepared to penetrate the highest blue sky
with a 6.5 million pound payload ride,
my rocket shell st...
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Categories:
mcauliffe, adventure, dedication, faith,
Form: Epic
Soldier of Ages
...Dedicated to Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945)
I'd fought a hundred battles
through the ages past and new
I'd been a lowly foot soldier
But a...
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Categories:
mcauliffe, memorial day, patriotic, soldier,
Form: Sonnet