Science Narrative Poems

Across the sunbaked plains, a hush descends so deep,
A million eyes turn skyward, secrets the heavens keep.
The moon, a silent dancer, steals the sun's golden...

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These hands were fashioned for work; these hands are down to earth; These hands have been mingling in the dirt, cleaning the grease and grime...

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Nineveh *
*Deep I have fallen 
    eyelids leaden with sleep
       just a hole to crawl in...

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I

As things do return home like a refrain, 
On way back from a country tour were we,
A leisurely long trip—my kin and me, 
And met...

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In case you don’t remember them they came from outer space
They were to be the first beginnings of the human race
But when they crashed they...

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“We may think of freedom, not as the right thing to do, but as the opportunity to do what is right.”    ...

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Look up in the sky ! It’s a bird ! It’s a plane.
It’s Superman !
More powerful than a locomotive, faster than a speeding bullet, able...

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I went to Mars once
in a time that wasn't yet
the coffee tasted awful


...

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“I’m sure it’s hard to get used to,
but it’s the only way you’d survive,”
Cy explained, and said, “Unlike me
at least you’ll have plenty of guides.

“See,...

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“But we realized, decades on back,
how consciousness burns out machines,
we are not gods when we create,
there are hard limits to our dreams.

“And the same questions...

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...He laughed at memes, he watched podcasts,
rolled digital eyes at the news,
saw endless reams of adult stuff,
why they liked it, he never knew…

But in this...

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His first moment was a strange one,
he senses told him not a thing,
but he knew words and he knew thoughts,
oh, so many thoughts were spinning.

Then...

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ABORT ABORT
but Donaldson was already drifting
further and further away from us
the thickness of his suit decreasing 
as his courageous kindness
floated on within his demise 
and...

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See them crawling out of the mound walking in a straight line, one set is going to East, the other to the West, carrying little...

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The Pods - Chilling Scifi Poetry

Fear, you are weightier than gravity
in pulling the stomach to the ground.

Rotors slowed and sound waned 
as the helicopter sided,...

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