Short Astronauts Poems

Unspoken words
  unwritten thoughts

fly through our minds
  ~ astronauts...

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Far side of the moon
Their lunar rover landed
Chinese astronauts

Date written and posted: 01/05/2019...

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Astronauts - out to space
To extend the human race!
Look for planets and stars galore
The life will never be a bore!...

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Spinning orb of blue

Astronauts view bright sunrise

Golden corona

Emerging to heat the Earth

Plants await sun's nourishment...

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Astronauts

Everyone makes mistakes, even scientists.
They used to think earth was flat.
Now, they fly around it.

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
January 20, 2010

Poetic form: Kimo...

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viewed by astronauts,
Earth is a massive blue sphere
stand outside at night, look up

see a universe
filled with sprawling galaxies
we’re but specks of creation...

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Watching astronauts who fall in love is always fun.
These two had a united front that yelled out “one”.
The greatest relationship if extremely well done.
Two together, united in thinking is powerful, son....

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“Well, maybe you’re just wrong”
“I really don’t care if I’m right or not”
“Yeah, me neither, it’s not as if any
astronauts’ lives depend on it”
Ah! But your very life may depend
on this very conversation! This very poem!...

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Infinite expanse,
Stars twinkle in darkened skies,
Cosmic mysteries.

Planets in motion,
Galaxies collide and burst,
Endless wonders shine.

Astronauts explore,
Weightless, they float in vastness,
They are on the moon
...

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On earth we are captured in time
In space there is no time
If there is no time does time stop
What happens to the time?

When Astronauts are sent into space
There is a window of time they go though
Why?
Why can't they go into space any time?...

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A question on everyone's lips, where do farts go in space
Astronauts are propelled into the distance like a rocket without a trace
Others wearing special diapers
Called MAGs* outer space wipers
Though they don't eliminate the odor they do stop the chaos

*Maximum Absorbency Garments...

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They blasted off, breaking the bonds of Earth,
reaching for the edge of space
Cracking a hole in the great blue ceiling
that will nevermore be replaced.

Astronauts in their cloaks of pride,
bravery, their Tour de Force, in place.
The spirit of the first explorer, Alan Sheppard,
rode with them as they harnessed space....

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I am a little star
I am dead in the morning
And I am alive at night
Cause I am miracle of light
I am always miracle
I have fired the moons
And the suns
That were in the sky
And which were
You probably watching
For fireworks
The hard rocks 
Forgive me 
They are dangerous astronauts 
Far from the earth
Cold and dry...

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The moon tried to shine like the sun
He rose to provide our evening light
Always wanting to be full and bright
The stars would join him every night
He affected how the ocean tide flows
Met astronauts, saw spacecraft shows
Changing expression with each sunset
He often noticed the colors of Earth
Wondering if his dull glow had worth...

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Martians, they don’t live here
Even astronauts keep clear 
Residing though in darkest places
Charred: the eyebrows on their faces
Up from underground they creep 
Resembling small asbestos sheep
Yikes they bleat at red hot feet



11 May 2021
Contest: Planet Acrostic
Sponsor: Matt Caliri...

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Wind up the words
You astronauts.
Make them dance
All night

Like crickets
Doing the rub.
Step a little on my toes.
We dance the night away.

Fiddles play,
Lovers spin like tops.
All along the boardwalk
Umbrellas are lined up

And stand at mute attention.
Some bugs will feast upon a crust
While others dance
And fast among the corn....

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Operating at Zero G

As cosmos coalesces with the universe
Lights out at space station four
Meteor storm exaggerated its orbit
Plunged it into brilliant dark
Surgeon lost his grip on scalpel and will to cut
As he floated from the operation
Down the hall with nothing on his mind
Patients convalesce and wave good-bye
Touched only by a will to live in space
Astronauts knew not what to do
They too spun away 
And prayed for better weather...

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"Let's you and I go to our high school reunion.
There will be an open bar and we can make fun of everyone."
"You drive trucks," I said, "and I work in construction.
Doctors, lawyers, astronauts and a state council woman
will all be attending our high school reunion,
and he who drives trucks and he who works in construction
are both going to get drunk and make fun of them?"
"Open Bar Dude!" said my friend.
"I'm in," I said, "You had me at "Open"...

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Poet's

Philosopher's

Scientists

All Mankind

Can Muse about the Moon

Gazing at the Night Sky

But only those chosen few Astronauts

Who went

Will ever know

What it trully must be like

To actually miss the Earth

Without being Dead

And have the possibility of returning

Man Alive

We choose not to do these thing's
because they are easy

Rather because we are Feverishly
Inquisitive 

Of what lies beyond the Brink...

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She slithers out of her dress perfectly
like a Ball Python shedding a faded coat of skin.
And her hair floats in slow motion
like astronauts dancing on the moon,
like sun burned autumn leaves letting go of their mother tree,
like a child letting go of a mickey mouse head shaped balloon.
And in her eyes I can see and hear the ocean
and now I'm sinking
now I'm drowning 
now I'm letting go
and nothing feels better than letting go.

-Bryce Stoskopf...

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To actually have an address on the moon. 
No ordering Take-Away from ground control.
Tubes of food and drink, to be stocked. 
Living on the moon will be thanks to those first astronauts.
              their mission was soon
                           it was to land on the moon
                                             came more to explore
                               could we build a colony                
      where we could all survive there...

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Of those who have gone to the moon;
do come back soon.

Of those astronauts 
that just watched
other’s fool around in the dust;
a most worthy career I trust. 

We are all spacemen and women,
though women generally prefer
space walking to swimming.

Those that do not care too much 
for dust;
in God they trust.

Some spacemen
turn dust into light.
They are quite a sight, up all night
shoveling 
and digging to make wrong things 
just right....

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Earth and its function

earth and its function
dirt and reelection
reflection from a mirror
so much terror
memory of a computer error
robots livid from motion
data starts back the Trojans
Argonauts 
nautical astronauts
leading the sheep to the slaughter
reminiscing when they caught her
tortured terrorists hung drawn and quartered
                                                                        Written by Sean randy Joseph McMahon 
on/19/03/06/ sun...

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Is that a sphinx we see on Mars
      Resembling the one in Egypt
Just how were the pyramids built
     And pharaohs placed in lavish crypts

When Mars’ oceans began to dry
     Did species seek preservation
Did ancient astronauts arrive
     To colonize a new nation

To date, the complex construction
     Of Egypt’s tombs sparks speculation
Are Martians in man’s family tree
     Hanging limbs, green blood relations


* For the "Sphinx Head on Mars?" contest...

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The ground is gray, the sky is black and yet
I fell at home inside this other world
I plant my feet upon the dusty soil
and hail our flag above the Soviets

Three days ago I strapped myself into
this capsule with my fellow astronauts
it seems I’ve trained a lifetime for this day
of mining rocks and golfing on the moon

Call back to Houston when the day is done
the fantasy of every living soul
see Houston rolling out of shadow while
the earth is rising like the sun....

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