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Splashdown Poems

Light

...‘I was born with the meaning of home running through my veins.”
—Lauren Eden The Lioness Awakens, Poems

Light

i swing
in trees I can’t get down from
i buried myself ...

Categories: splashdown, adventure, home, light, love,
Form: Suzette Prime

Beyond Vessels

...My home is not made of spacecraft.
My heart is not made of fear.
My soul is not made of isolation.
No, my home is a resilient capsule that no one can breach.
I am there whenever I am weightless.
...

Categories: splashdown, adventure, appreciation, confidence, endurance,
Form: Free verse

Space Odyssey

...
In smoke and flames of mighty Apollo
  T-minus fifteen seconds, engines on!
O’ ship of divine distance I saw go
  when rocketeers on lunar ascent shone.
New Age Columbus kings voyage and re...

Categories: splashdown, moon, space, voyage,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Ducks For Breakfast

...Have you ever seen a duck come in to land… on land
It’s an eventuality that nature never planned
For ducks that land on water such a graceful splashdown make 
But should they land on terra firma… ...

Categories: splashdown, bird,
Form: Rhyme

Tatters

...Freckles fall from Tatters downtrodden countenance.
They fell like snow onto his chest below. Only one
landed on his nose, Rudolph-proud. He shared
Bozo’s hair - orange and red - a frenet...

Categories: splashdown, sad,
Form: Narrative

Swan Song

...Graceful swan, high glide
His frozen lake, below spied
Splashdown? No... slip, slide...

Categories: splashdown, bird, winter,
Form: Haiku

Whole Lotta Downs

...Dip me in the pool to cool me down
Sit me in the sun to make me brown
Put me on a throne to give me crown
Take me in a car to drive to town
Lets go to the circus to see the clown
Make me really sad t...

Categories: splashdown, imagination, me, old, me,
Form: Rhyme