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Neil Armstrong Poems - Poems about Neil Armstrong

Bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail, 31 May, 1970

...B-52: a city on its own. 
You mess with us, we’ve got technology.
I loved it when we flew into the zone:
as Ernie said, “We’ll kill ’em till they’re free.”

My job? To watch the black cascade of...
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Categories: neil armstrong, war,
Form: Rhyme

Sixty-six years and six months

...My people set out sixty-six years and six months ago
Give or take; sure, liberties taken, but I'll give her back,
And if you want, they got a machine with occasional fact,
But back to forbodingly ...
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Categories: neil armstrong, confusion, growing up, leadership,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberColonization

...In the nineteen sixties, growing up,
ideas filled my overflowing cup.
The future then was hopeful and bright.
It took eight minutes for golden light
to shine to the earth down from the sun,
trav...
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Categories: neil armstrong, childhood, imagination, space,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSong Titles A Differant Take

...Who wrote the book of love
Why do fools fall in love
You Can't Hurry Love
You can if you're making it
Does Blondie's Sunday 
I Don't Know What Love Is
Ask someone who knows
Love Me Like A Hurr...
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Categories: neil armstrong, song,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMarathon 1969

...Yes, they told her
they will induce our
baby.It was the high
blood pressure,
it seems

I skipped out 
of work early
at twelve. The
maternity unit was
just up the road.

She sat on a table...
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Categories: neil armstrong, birth, child, history, marriage,
Form: Bio



Premium MemberGoing Steady Forever

...Ace the pilot could cut the Migs down fast
At an early age his future was cast
Great at navigation, and maneuvering too
What is the hold up on him asking Sue?

She has been waiting for ever so l...
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Categories: neil armstrong, 10th grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHappy Day After

...I’ve written about the day before Christmas…then added Christmas Day into the mix…
So it only seems appropriate that I write about December 26.

So…happy day after Christmas…like Christmas it’s a ...
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Categories: neil armstrong, christmas, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberOne Giant Leap-M

..."That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
Neil Armstrong.

None dare doubt the human spirit nor conceive of thoughts that
minimizes its potential and power. Although the huma...
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Categories: neil armstrong, humanity, imagination, inspiration, space,
Form: Verse

Useful Moon

...It has come to my attention that the moon is capable of growing
green bananas, keeping sheep and goats, but not cows
the cattle emit too much gas.
If we send refugees there and not to Rwanda, they...
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Categories: neil armstrong, deep, depression, gothic,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberNeil Armstrong 1969

...Neil Armstrong in nineteen-sixty-nine
Moonwalked on the moon, the first in line.
There have now been twelve
Humans, no elve.
Don’t you think this is mighty fine?...
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Categories: neil armstrong, moon, nostalgia, space,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberHorsepower

...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 s...
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Categories: neil armstrong, funny,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWhat If

...Biden has never felt weller
He’s seen off that crazy-haired fella
With boxes to dump
Of votes ticked for Trump
He simply can’t move in his cellar.

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Neil Armstrong had NASA to ...
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Categories: neil armstrong, humor, humorous,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberFamily and Love

...Life is all about family and love.

July 20, 1969, this day in history
Astronaut Neil Armstrong walked on moon, 240,000 miles
From Earth, a billion people
Listening at home:
“That’s one smal...
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Categories: neil armstrong, appreciation, childhood, family, power,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberOnce Upon a Time

...Two of the greatest gifts that God ever gave to mankind                                                                                   were the gifts of TIME AND SPACE. He requires that we use    ...
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Categories: neil armstrong, age, time,
Form: Prose Poetry

Moon Landing

...Fifty years ago, Neil Armstrong 
Walked upon on the moon,
An act unparalleled which caused
All 'round the world to swoon.

Yet memory's a funny thing,
'Cause in my brain, like glue,
More than ...
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Categories: neil armstrong, moon,
Form: Rhyme

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