Short Crewed Poems

A journey landing in December
Road to the Moon of wonder
Trip of four to remember
East of Eden fonder
Milestone is in the offing
Instilled dream becomes a happening
Strobe lights showing and playing

Second-scheduled mission, but first crewed......

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Rocket cat vip courages ~ Cat crewed flight via SpaceX 

Elon’s starship launched           
top gun catnip will travel~
blues sky flying high 

Missing you my fearless feline, safely may you return
Wishing that your Mission Impossible will soon adjourn
On this Memorial Day we salute cat ladies and lasses’
Eveready as you don your Tom Cruise aviator glasses...

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On Reading

Voyages ‘pon seas
Of ink and tide
On journeys
O’er oceans wide

In time transported
By imagination ferried
To exotic ports and 
To treasures buried

Made of paper and page
A fragile craft
No more than a hand span 
From fore to aft

But a transport no less…
Through both space and time
Crewed only by a lone
…And inquisitive mind…


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The happening 

On the balcony sat a raven it had yellow eyes
It crewed with delight.

Ill in bed the flue, a stream of transpiration
turned into a raging river.

Transported me to the sea which was cooling
and calm lowered the fever.

The raven had fallen to its death into the canyon 
of high rise flats.

A man picked it up his dinner of the day saved
he wore a feather on his hat....

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Balanced on a Red Rider wagon,
a wooden boat with flaking paint; 
split transom
poorly repaired.  Ten year olds
with borrowed tools, untrained
in fixing leaks, or boats,
or knowing what a transom was.
     Christened the "Neversink,"
but often did, with bamboo fishing poles askew,
the used nine sixteenth nut sinkers
spilling into warm water;
     sunfish laughing.
A doomed soup can ship, 
crewed by worms,
going down.
Young toes to search the liquid silt
     for clams....

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