Short Martian Poems

The Martian Mork  
Loved the American Mindy 
   He -- animated, yet robotic-formal
   She -- cute, though annoyingly normal...

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A Martian came down on my lawn
One overcast, wet, windy morn
I said oh my golly
I’ll fetch him a brolly
But when I got back he was gawn...

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Merry Martian march,
Ardent adventures adorned;
Restless ravens rasp…
Cozy caressing calmness 
Heavenly harmony haunts

29 March 2023...

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There once was a Martian from Phobos
When he spoke he was really verbose
He chattered away
Yes, day after day
Till, he drove the whole moon comatose!...

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There once was a Martian had the flu
He tried to talk, but out came Achoo!  
   He went to the Doc
   Who knocked on his block
After that he screamed Nanu, Nanu!...

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There was a Martian, whose name was Fred.
Who had a Venusian girlfriend, who said?
Fred is a ghastly lover.
He will only hover.
He has no feet or hair on his head....

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Fred, a green martian who's skin has a glow
In his zombie costume, no one would know
Until he tripped and fell down
His costume's now on the ground
His bright green skin lit up like a freak show...

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Martian Gumbo

One of dem Saucer land in da Bayou
Ole Boudreaux out huntin say "Jus who be you?"
Den he point him shodgun
And say "Lookee here son...
Jus found some green OKRA to seasonne my stew!"...

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MARTIAN RHYTHM

In Gustav Holst’s Planet Suite
It’s Mars, The Bringer Of War
The rhythm is in five four time
But there’s no words to rhyme
So one asks what is it good for
When keeping up with the beat
...

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Milky Galaxy
Heavenly Bodies
Astronaut Training
Space Exploration
Glenn, Scott, Carpenter

60’s Space Race 
Explore Cosmos
Land On The Moon
Favorite Martian

Aliens
George Jetson
Lost In Space

Moon...

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When first we landed and quickly  saw
What looked like Larry's mother-in-law
It just had to be
Anyone could see
It had good old mom's receding jaw


With Apologies to Larry Belt and his 
mother-in-law...

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A Martian spy from the earth fled
and to his superiors said,
“Although no one is near,
they still talk hand to ear.
Too much oxygen’s gone to their head.”

For Carolyn Devnoshire's contest: Out of this world limericks...

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I'm not lying.
I saw it flying
high and low,
fast and slow,
in a saucer crying,
a Martian who was trying
to find a place to go,
jetting to and fro,
the saddest UFO.
His girlfriend told him, "Joe - 
just get out now - go."...

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The Honeymooners
  Burns & Allen
Mister Ed, Mork & Mindy
  My Favorite Martian, My Three Sons

Sergeant Bilko, Dobie Gillis
  O, for the shows that used to thrill us
You Bet Your Life, the Jack Benny Show
  I can't list more ~ they're all I know...

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This Martian was as mean as it gets
He ran out of Martian cigarettes. 
He landed his spaceship on earth,
At a highway rest stop near Perth,
and found plenty by trailing the pets.

© Mar 13 2010
Placed 3rd in "Out of This World Limerick contest"...

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Aphrodisiac worked well
  The Martian thought ‘Swell’
‘Now I’ll make my move on this belle’

He leaned over to kiss her
  But she moved and he missed her
Then she punched him right in his kisser

His plan upended
  The Martian, offended
But she thought it ended just splendid...

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pink dawn on red mars
as far off sun glimmers gold
more probes are coming

someday red roses
when the greenery arrives
and with it fresh air

blue lakes and swimming
with the clouds, winds and the rain
red planet next door

phobos and deimos
glow throughout a martian night
when skies are dreaming...

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     Happy Martian New Year
       All you earthlings

     Be you wealthy or destitute
       intrepid or cowardly
       ecstatic or miserable
       inhibited or unbound

     At the Red Planet
       look up, awestruck




      Nov. 12 is Martian New Year!
  (per www.scientificamerican.com)...

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The fantasy of a Martian like me
  is to explore Earth's vast blue seas
to fraternize with dolphins and whales
  to return to Mars with many a tale

of octopus, squid, stingrays and eels
  the intense water pressure one feels
perhaps experience rapture of the deep ~ 
  long as my fifteen heads get their beauty sleep...

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A well spoken Martian came calling last week
He popped in the house for a chat
Though I wasn’t displeased 
When he coughed and he sneezed
I was miffed when he swallowed my cat
He said “ I am frightfully sorry, 
It isn’t like me to do that
You must think me a hog
For I much prefer dog
Or a rodent like rabbit or rat”...

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My name is etched
On Insight Lander
On Martian soil
It waits for me
To be where gravity is low
So be careful where you go
Mars’ atmosphere has little air
So beware
My name’s still etched
On Insight Lander
Along with miliions
Who like me dream
If we can get to you
Insight Lander
Your solar panels
We’ll surely clean
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Captain Kangaroo, Leave it to Beaver, Father Knows Best,
Dennis the Menace, Candid Camera, Red Skeleton,
Bonanza, Paladin, Gunsmoke, Perry Mason,
Dick Van Dyke, Petticoat Junction, Green Acres,
Andy Griffith, Danny Thomas, Ed Sulllivan,
Sing along with Mitch, My Favorite Martian,
I Love Lucy, all grayscale.
Color obsolete until 1966....

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A consortium for interplanetary exploration has conducted 
the first ever mining operation in Mars, using robotic
automation that unearthed many valuable minerals and 
uncommon elements from beneath the red regolith.
Scientists are not yet sure if for future Martian
colonization and mining activities they have to breed
an AI race.
...

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*Image of Mars Planet Red by Pixabay & Chemistry on Titan by Space.com.

greenhorns

commie circle
aliens conquest
Martians of earth

ring of blue hope
titan assimilators
half breed earthers

*Movies; Martian Chronicles, and, The Titan

2021 July 01
*1st Place*
A BRIAN STRAND JULY 3
~~Brian Strand: Judged 2021 July 03...

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Perseverance, ingenuity: hallmarks of great mind...
Examples which we Earthlings are expecting more to find.
As NASA's news now streams from Mars, where there is little air
And yet they're setting up the helicopter dispatched there.
With AIR as so essential for the flight of an AIRcraft
We'll see if JPL designers are clever - or just daft!...

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