Short Space Travel Poems

One more alien... an extra terrestrial. Bloody foreigners....

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Solar sails are set--
Stores secured, status shows green.
Surfing Saturn's rings....

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for centuries we admired you from afar soon to stain our vision

© Harry J Horsman 2019...

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Branson took the prize
the first billionaire in space
yellow brick road trekked

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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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Ballistic travels
Collapsing apprehension
Milky Way of light 



written for
Sponsor ^Rick Parise 
Contest Name Haiku Beyond (Nature Only)...

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   Balloons fill with helium, soar in the sky

   What strange gases burst politicians’ bellies

     ~ Perhaps Saturn will see them fly by
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Steady and stealth are
NASA’s sleek steel ships,
their bright brazen tail lights
trail baby blue skies 
as they climb cliffs of rugged cloud banks
~*~...

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my line of work
is space travel
those distances between stars
that's me
arranging all the loungers
around the hyper-pool
although
I'm only filling in...

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I sailed by Mercury, Venus and Mars
Past Neptune, Pluto and assorted stars
   The virus everywhere
   It's just too much to bear
I still can't find one single open bar...

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Mars is such a long way off
  Flying there could be quite tough
Let's set up intermediate stations
  On each one take long vacations

If we ever get to Mars, then good
  And if not ~ Well, that's Hollywood!...

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I'm joining Elon Musk
    It's Mars or bust
  If we don't make it
    we become space dust 

  But no way that's in the cards
    We'll get there, we try hard
  As for the trip back ~
    Er, perhaps you've a tip?...

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take a train
seek a station
sense the location
nevermind the destination

thus the landscape is just a mindscape;
a vastness of space, a great unknown
we built for each other,
a wall of falling - a distance of stasis....

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The First American In Space

Charted expanse amidst constellations,
Strokes faraway Monet craft distinctions,
Obscured impel echoes an emptied choice,
Shepard favors Frost's view, narrative voice.

2021 April 13...

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Again, it is Spring
in the garden outside my flat -
flowers forcing colours
above ground,
remind me that in nature,
there still remains
a world of mystery

despite marvellous inventions
space travel
and ndw technology....

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Again, it is Spring
in the garden outside my flat -
flowers forcing colours
above ground,
remind me that in nature,
there still remains
a world of mystery

despite marvellous inventions
space travel
and ndw technology....

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One Hundred Million years ago
A spaceship came to land

And plant the seed upon this earth
that one day would be man

From far across the Heavens
an eternity in space

The fertilized our gardens
soon to be the Human race........

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humanities quest
precipice of great unknown
universe is ours~
curiosity explored
light years into the dark void 



Pick-A-Title
Poetry Contest
The Precipice of The Unknown
Sponsored
 by: 
Edward Ibeh
03/02/2222...

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Zena hailed from the Zeta Reticula star system and she
was bored with the military’s handling of her.  Day after day of
interrogations and discussions for weapons or space travel.

barbed wire
she yawned wondering if it was
to keep her in or them...

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Perpetually
stars intermingle
with the universe
creation deathless
like the wide blue sea.

Cosmic order
continuous
in harmony
alone with God

The prophet
predicts man
in ‘Star ships’

invades
God’s own

Help!

© Harry J Horsman  2010...

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Are like passports or keys to open doorways
to travel the stars, quasars, galaxies and white and black holes

From worlds within us
from worlds outside us
and inner and outer dimensions

That were never seen
or heard of or experienced before time...

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He walked around the showroom
       the cars were shining bright
    He told the nearest salesman
       I do not see a bike

    They thought he meant motorcycles
      instead of brand-new cars
    The little green man got offended
      so he pedaled on back to Mars...

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Exposing rays from leaves, dense forest
Over and above with idle flow, riverine raft
None, still numerous belongs my closest
Melodies out the tropical denses,
Spreading vibes in everyone's hymn,
Fueling the bonfire with all poor instances,
Join all and let's ride good times....

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Recover lost horizons
  Sail beyond Outer Space
Revive the imagination
  Of a faith-starved race

Dive deep into oceans
  Unexplored, Inner Space
Where waters surge majestic
  Midst moments of grace



       March 01, 2021 
 ALL YOURS (Mar 3) Contest
     Sponsor: Brian Strand...

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Said a man returned from the moon
“I fear I have come back too soon,
For I left about seven
On my journey to heaven
And here it is now only noon.”


written, Winter 1972
edited June 29, 2021
[first published in The Hoosier Challenger, 1972;
republished in ByLine, Summer, 1989]...

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