Timeless Voyager
I've strolled among pharaohs, saw realms rise,
Blended with rulers, and watched civic establishments death.
From old Greece to cutting edge skies,
I've borne observer to mankind's difficulty and murmurs.
Through shroud of time, I've seen your sort,
Battle, look for, and perpetually loosen up.
Your most noteworthy accomplishments, your haziest deeds,
Reverberations of an immortal, infinite statement of faith.
On this, my
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Categories:
voyager, caregiving, change, deep, earth,
Form: Free verse
Voyager
Listen to the deep stillness here,
Feel the inner astronaut glide;
Glimpse the pure grace that ever cheers.
Relax into that mystic sphere,
Smell the fragrance of time and tide;
Listen to the deep stillness here.
Commune with the sacred touch dear,
Heed the inner child by your side;
Glimpse the pure grace that ever cheers.
Attune to love that sparkles clear,
Choice of poise
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Categories:
voyager, allusion,
Form: Villanelle
A Voyager
Based on Psalm 23 NIV
Placed Second
Modern Version Psalm 23 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Miranda Hawley
A Voyager
The Lord is my captain; I`ve faith in Him.
He asks
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Categories:
voyager, bible, christian, faith, life,
Form: Free verse
The Lost Voyager
There was virile voyager called Stanley,
with sucking lips he could blaze cold alley.
In journey from top downward
his machismo got devoured,
on V-night he lost way in silk valley.
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Categories:
voyager, lust,
Form: Limerick
Categories:
voyager, image, in memoriam, inspiration,
Form: Haiku
Voyager
He put to sea west south-west
in a small cabin amidships -
stole away in an unknown quest,
salty ocean brine wet on his lips
In the fires of smoke and light
Neptune raised his trident,
and led safe passage in the night
as stormy seas grew more
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Categories:
voyager, adventure, voyage,
Form: Rhyme
A Lonely Voyage
Five years was their prediction of my lifespan.
Approaching forty-five,
I have a lot to show and less to say.
Photography was never my thing
But I have the most impactful photo of the Earth.
a blurry dot in a sunbeam
Six billion kilometres away.
Crawling through space
at 61,500 kilometres in an hour,
I'll soon lose my makers
to the darkness of space;
and
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Categories:
voyager, encouraging, farewell, flying, science,
Form: Free verse
The Hmas Voyager
The Royal Australian Navy once had a fine destroyer.
It was a ship of the Daring Class named the HMAS Voyager.
This destroyer was tragically sunk in February of 1964.
That infamous event occurred at Jervis Bay.
Eighty-two of Voyager's crew were killed that day.
The carrier Melbourne hit the Voyager and split her in two.
The Melbourne also rammed an
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Categories:
voyager, history,
Form: Rhyme
Voyager
Voyager
By David J Walker
You are the ones we left
And knew would never grace
The ports on different paths
And ever will the course
Of our ascent serrate a jagged
Past across a folded sky
The SETI trade winds scan each
Horizon
One by
One by
One
With the digital sexton
Texting the someone’s we
Might never know again
Who may complete us
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Categories:
voyager, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Voyager
With feet of wind
and my head
of dreams I ran
the world...
On the crazy horse
of youth
I rode rivers,
deserts, mountains
and plans ...
With my eyes
I searched for butterfly
and the unknowns
flowers...
With hummingbird lips
I sucked the honey
from the nymphs, and
with my rice heart
I gave abundance to everyone
that I met ...
But it was my life,
of voyager
that brought
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Categories:
voyager, allusion, creation, identity, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
O Burning Voyager
Dragons with their brimstone throats
burned millions
before bursting into combustible myths.
Did we once make fire
or did the fire make us? Burning,
burning, burning
until ‘forever’ became extinct, became
smoke behind the ramparts of heaven.
More burning, torching the sub-human heart
into almost human pieces,
making our blackened ancestors,
(our little thumb-opposing howlers),
shed their burning skin,
revealing a mollusk of intellect,
a shellfish
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Categories:
voyager, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Virile Voyager
There was virile voyager called Stanley,
with sucking lips he could blaze cold galley.
In journey from top downward
his machismo got devoured,
he lost winding way in lissom valley.
May 24, 2019
Syllable count : 10/10/7/7/10
Checked on howmanysyllables.com
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Categories:
voyager, analogy, humorous, lust,
Form: Limerick
Now Voyager
Sing sad songs to a wanderlust child born
stagnant love the heart of a mother's scorn,
raised by elders, unfamiliar parents
to the loneliest heart, lost and errant
struggling in hope to find the better way
amidst the misconceptions of each day;
play a melody, rhythmic, soft and sweet
where a discarded child's heart-achingly beats
part of dream and
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Categories:
voyager, heart, mother daughter,
Form: Sonnet
Fool the Voyager
Through the sea of flames
I pursue to fulfill this
shadow quest of mine,
governing my ark
recklessly against the winds
of mauling doubts, toward you.
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Categories:
voyager, fire, sad love, sea,
Form: Choka
A Voyager
I’m just a drifter and yielded nothing
No pantry full of food but a few things
I cannot take them in time of ending
A great beyond that’s life everlasting
We come and go even of short notice
I’m just a drifter and yielded nothing
Good time, pleasures and everything
Being too attached with those things
I cannot take them in time of
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Categories:
voyager, absence, death, halloween, thanksgiving,
Form: Villanelle
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