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Space Poems | Examples of Space Poetry

Space Poems - Examples of all types of space poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous poem examples for space.
Premium Member May Be From Outer Space
Did you ever see a cow with a green eyebrow Wow! Hope you sought some help Did you ever see a llama, wearing pink pyjamas Something more serious has developed Did you ever see a fly with a...Read the rest...
Categories: space,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Black Hole
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ light cannot escape the gravity is too great inside a black hole ...Read the rest...
Categories: space,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Arrival
Arrival’s random, comets come ringing their bell; The neighbours of stars....Read the rest...
Categories: nature, space, stars,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Morning Reservation
Everything seems to fit into this morning's vast mosaic as if each piece has been shaped to occupy a given place. Even the broken sea shells that first appeared redundant, strewn haphazardly along the beach now give pause and interest to the...Read the rest...
Categories: morning, sea, space,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bursting Bellies
Balloons fill with helium, soar in the sky What strange gases burst politicians’ bellies ~ Perhaps Saturn will see them fly by ...Read the rest...
Categories: giggle, planet, space, travel,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Hidden in plain sight
The seemingly motionless vastness of space, at times teases, revealing pores in its skin, through which we see flickers of light as God’s grace, thus piercing the veil, God-search we may begin. Such are divine secrets, hidden in plain...Read the rest...
Categories: light, space, spiritual,
Form: Rispetto
Premium Member FAR
Distant starlit place Flying parsecs away In outer space Circles Milky Way A blinking light Night and day Cepheid Hubble found, Receding slowly apace Universe outward bound. ...Read the rest...
Categories: space, day, flying, light, night,
Form: Other
Premium Member Gifts From God
Two basic necessities Two contrasting realities Time neither pauses nor stops Space neither alters nor moves 052224PS...Read the rest...
Categories: space, time,
Form: Free verse
Squint to See
A portrait of a perfect house with flaken gold . An image by a renaissance man talant without a family. The inevitable imagination creates a story yet it could never picture a home, merely a tale. The shiny roof that...Read the rest...
Categories: endurance, home, space,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Who am I
The first thing we see is invisible space and in fact we all are contained within it, which holds us intimately in close embrace, revealing its secrets to us bit by bit. Upon ceasing striving, with no goals...Read the rest...
Categories: god, space, spiritual,
Form: Ottava rima
Springtime on the Donets
Clownish yaw engines Spin us about The blue sphere we inhabit Its future in doubt Our cumulus cloud shroud Conceals the pain Of tanks, missiles and pogroms And unburied slain...Read the rest...
Categories: space, violence, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Solar Wrath
Noble northern lights illuminate the nocturnal sky (a gift from the Solar Kingdom) an extreme G5 s*T*o*R*m hammers a little blue globe BLISSfully violent yellow god-star...Read the rest...
Categories: dark, society, space, sun,
Form: Free verse
One For One
Creating one more empty space for every one I fill Answers close within themselves — questions open still (The New Room: May, 2024) ...Read the rest...
Categories: space,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Utterly Preposterous
Aliens DO exist and they are observing us guys The way we interact with each other What advice do you think they would give us Would they throw up their hands in disgust And say, “it's no use... people...Read the rest...
Categories: space,
Form: Free verse
Nature's Flower Runs Through My Fears
Nature's flower runs through my fears, Her old seasons there interceding On the silver gray blunt of the shears, Where the stem—sharpened by night—is keeping For the day's rain starving in the clouds; This time, it needs your weeping. When coming...Read the rest...
Categories: space, angst, flower, introspection, loneliness,
Form: Terza Rima

Specific Types of Space Poems

Definition | What is Space in Poetry?


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