Thirteen
...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...
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Categories:
orbited, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
goodbye Frank
...Forward thinking astronomer Frank Drake
did not worry about a mistake
Tried contacting aliens with radio,
waves had rather far to beam and go.
Frank orbited into outer space last May
Extraterr...
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Categories:
orbited, 10th grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
A gem worthy of a crown
...Happiness is easily found in a multitude of the sweetest components
Grateful for you, often swept from the feats, of our hours, sharring meaningful moments
Your citrines comprised burning...
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Categories:
orbited, devotion, for her, love,
Form: Rhyme
Looking deeper
...On first glance all seemed well
but the stooped stance betrayed,
tremulous heart shaken,
under weight of struggles,
soul yet to awaken.
On first glance all seemed well
but then we saw bondage...
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Categories:
orbited, deep,
Form: Monchielle Stanza
Quest
...The first exploration was to the moon
Where we saw how its craters are hewn
We have orbited Jupiter to unveil the shroud
and unlocked the mystery beneath its dense cloud,
Man's curiousity has...
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Categories:
orbited, moon, planet, space, stars,
Form: Rhyme
Sputnik Scare
...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 o...
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Categories:
orbited, history, space, war,
Form: Verse
Two Thousand and Twenty Two
...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 Thousan...
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Categories:
orbited, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Alone
...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 th...
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Categories:
orbited, creation, future, imagination, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Mission Lag
...We are not alone in this place
Just isolated in space
Our star isn’t dim
Just at our Galaxy‘s very rim
For no other reason
Than it was their mating season
They wined and they dined
With ten...
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Categories:
orbited, adventure, fantasy, future, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
The Prodigal Son Returns
...
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...
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Categories:
orbited, spiritual, , hinduism,
Form: Free verse
Song of Songs
...The church I went to as a teenager
was full of sex.
It seeped through the worn wooden pews
into the pours of our hands.
It sluiced around the stucco walls
and fake stained-glass windows.
The ...
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Categories:
orbited, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Rolling, Slicing and Rumbling
...Roller skates
Roll smooth
In circles and orbited figure eights
Gliding great with the rhythmic moves
So quick
...
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Categories:
orbited, appreciation, sports,
Form: Double Dactyl
Aerospace Grade Materials
...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...
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Categories:
orbited, fantasy, science fiction, stars,
Form: Verse
Enchanting Shadows
...So distant was love from her heart to mine,
We orbited different worlds
Yet we spun with a passion on destiny's path
Rotating with desire as we eclipsed;
The enchanting shadow of love, for a...
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Categories:
orbited, stars,
Form: Free verse
Take This Time To Heal
...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...
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Categories:
orbited, appreciation, beauty, encouraging, environment,
Form: Rhyme
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