Sputnik Poems - Poems about Sputnik

We stood at the edge of the back yard, next to the garage— where I’d pretended to be an astronaut in a cardboard spaceship— on a chill November night, watching Sputnik II arc across the sky. I didn’t know why he was rarely home— or why it wasn’t always like this when he was: quiet, steady, present. All I knew was the stars were out, and he was beside me— and Laika was...

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Sputnik Scare The beep-beep-beep signal scare, From the Sputnik artificial satellite Orbiting the earth; broadcast through air Continued for twenty-two minutes Until the batteries ran out. The Russians are first in space! And America is on edge: Perceptions of a missile gap and space control, To thoughts of a war with nuclear bombs; As people watch for Sputnik circling the globe. In response to the Red...

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You found me in a shadow, By chance alone, and still. Within a hole I came to know: A burden; can't fulfill. Buried nether stories, I've welded to my spine: Biopolitic territories, Ancient ruins, un-divine. I floated in that shadow, Embracing darkness wet. Drenching moisture—catacomb— Until endured my Privyet. Flickered 'hind the window glass, Your eyes puckered in the lime, To return and pass, iconic sass, Greet, regurgitate its rhyme. You...

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Sputnik and other vaccines The pandemic is a time when humankind is attacked nations should work together. Instead, it has become a business propositions. Who will sell the most vaccine (not necessarily the best)? Who makes the most money for the Pharma industry? And not the cost to the people who need it. In an article in the Guardian several...

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When Mother Nature calls it's best to obey Get your ass in there or there'll be hell to pay Especially in public About to launch a Sputnik Must stay near a poop disposal unit all day © Jack Ellison 2015...

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Beep beep...ker er er...err err err It can't be... The telemetry... It's Sputnik! It's still alive! I told my commander, But he originally didn't think Anything of it. No sir! It really is Sputnik! Listen to it's signal. The Commander couldn't believe What he was hearing, and witnessing altogether! He turned ghost white, It brought him to tears. Commander? Sputnik... I thought it had drifted away... forever......

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