POETRY THREAD: SOMEWHERE OUT THERE
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Suns shining, stars twinkling,
Black holes which hold unknowns
Planck's wall, shuttle stalls,
Real estate no one owns.
Space stations, moonwalks
water molecules on Mars,
Maybe even the Enterprise,
Or cozy little milky way bars.
What we know is next to nothing
And some of that's on spec
We are free to paint the scene
So tell the world what to expect.
Your theory on creation, or
what you saw when you went there
Your visions for the future
Or disasters getting there
Other life and what they know
Or just the beauty of the place
Your mind and pen are free to roam
Unlimited outer space.

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by Clairesbest

Somewhere Out There, Pt, 2
Are you sure, that you've not been here before?
Are you sure, you've not returned to explore?

Can it be, you came to learn a lesson?
Can it be, this trip will not be lessened?

Is it true? your birth is only hearsay!
Is it true? you have no proof what they say!

Isn't it strange, you don't remember birth?
Isn't it strange, you still retain its worth?

Do you believe, your life here wasn't planned?
Do you believe, its paths are in your hand?

Can you see, why life is so demanding?
Can you see, the person that's commanding?

That's right, my friend, you are the one in charge!
That's right, my friend, you now are living large!

( Posted by: daprdan [Member] On: August 3, 2004 )

Somewhere Out There, Pt 3...
Deep within the velvet black,
Of endless space and time,
Deep within worlds and worlds,
Is undiscovered rhyme.

Words to unravel,
New world travel,
Milky Way words,
Inter-stellar verbs,
New style adjectives, nouns and tenses,
No such thing as sentences,
Martian intonation,
Plutonian modulation,
Dictionary pages,
That go on for ages,
Accented by a whole new race,
Poet’s Newfoundland in space.

( Posted by: tinalouise [Member] On: August 3, 2004 )

Somewhere Out There, Pt 4...
What is this that lies before me?
But the ever lasting night of space
Beyond the farthest reach of man
I travel to an unknown place.

I chose this mission far from you
To stay the sorrow in my breast.
Alas I cannot face a day
Without you to hold against my chest.

Mother earth’s cold embrace
Holds you now instead of mine.
I have forsaken all my dreams
And travel beyond the reach of time.

( Posted by: nauticus66 [Member] On: August 3, 2004 )

Somewhere Out There, Pt. 5
Gazing to the heavens,
We all see ourselves.
Everyone shows differing taste,
New reasoning.

Some see mystics,
Magicks spread through word of mouth;

To others, the words of an Almighty,
Breathing promises of eternal love.

The scientist sees flaming quanta,
Bursting forth at the speed of light.

The poet may be the most unique;
The skies spew forth untold epics--
Dragons and computers, cabbages and kings,
All in the brushstroke
Of an unseen muse.

All that we can be sure truly exists
Is a mirror, in the shape of Love,
Reflecting our own true selves.

( Posted by: the Co.konspirator [Member] On: August 3, 2004 )

Somewhere Out There, Pt. 6
My name is Pietripavlinom
from Franily a macrocosm
borne from a Stella matutina
evolved for not more than a ten millennia.

Population is five hundred
more than our twin planet Valdred’s,
which is fifty zillion and eleven,
not yet counting the women.

S.O.S. our nations shout,
we suffer from a universal drought.
No neighboring planet can adopt us;
all twenty are moving tow’rds Stellarareus.

No explanations yet for such phenomenon
of planets being drawn by the sun.
So if there really is life out there,
save us from the chasm of death, if you do care.

*As deciphered by my fellow astronomers
from the signs seen across the Eastern sky this morning.

( Posted by: peterpaulino [Member] On: August 4, 2004 )

Somewhere Out There, pt 7
Somewhere out there an old woman shouts,
"Stop throwing all the awful noise about!"
Somewhere nearby a child kicks cans all around,
religiously counting each discordant sound.
He listens and kicks and grows to be
a great musician we would pay to see.

Somewhere out there a man rapes his wife.
His 'used-to-be" friend, partner for life.
She takes it, accepts it, and cries at night.
Tells herself "We're married, it must be right."
But she learns herself and learns the laws,
Helps others like her, through a newly established cause.

Somewhere out there an old man is being neglected.
By children and grandchildren, he sits, dejected.
All that he's given they've taken away,
Now they wait for inheritance, he'll die any day.
He wishes he could be there to see their faces
When they learn he's already given it to those kind souls that feed him, down the street a few spaces.

( Posted by: Mzjen1 [Member] On: August 4, 2004 )

Somewhere Out There part 8
Drawn to jewels beyond our comprehension
Our gorgeous planets cause no apprehension
From way out here there seems to be no tension
Living on our peaceful planet “Kaizon”

Here we have no problems with recycling
Black holes to Kaizons are not frightening
Galactic storms to us are merely lightning

We see the earthlings getting ever closer
On the good of everything we have a charter
We’ll quietly find a way to use our laughter
And hopefully we’ll stop their kind of slaughter

But - we are not inclined to beg or barter!

( Posted by: Huni [Member] On: August 4, 2004 )

Somewhere Out There part 9
The heavens range, eternal might
while all of history sleeps
and so unfolds
Unnoticed by the cepheid's light
the swirling glaxies unite
to sing the hissing praise
of all that came before
and is to be...

While waiting for a star to fall
the keening voice of man
- and Eve -
ascends, tumultuous and bright
above the ragged roar
of mortal toil,
and bursts upon the silent universe
and is absorbed
as foaming waves upon the shore of night,
forevermore

( Posted by: annika [Member] On: August 4, 2004 )

Part 10, Somewhere Out There

A galactic tower of babel is where I spent last night
In a chic little milky way bistro, with the most amazing light.

There were few who looked like me since they were from another place,
And had a totally different concept of immediate time and space.

I danced to otherworldly music which was foreign to my ear
And downed elixir from the cosmos without a second thought or fear;

There was no point in talking, you couldn't hear above the din
But I danced until I dropped, and then I began again.

The bouncer at the door kept his four eyes on every place
And though his skin was aubergine, he had a very pleasant face.

When it came time to order dinner, I was a suddenly trapped rat,
How could I know I wouldn't order the Saturnine cousin of Hunan cat!

And so I stuck with just the beverages, for all I knew it was a NASA thing,
Or at least thats what I thought, until my ears began to ring.

No matter where my future takes me, be it near or be it far,
I intend to dance the night away once again at that milky way bar.

( Posted by: Clairesbest [Member] On: August 4, 2004 )

Somewhere Out There Part 11
Starry skies
Omniscient nights
Moons rotating slowly.
Ethereal beings dance across a
Weightless atmosphere.
Heaven or a vast
Emptiness
Roll above the clouds
Enter every corner.

Outer space,
Utter beauty
To gaze upon at night.

Thousand miles of unknown territory,
Hearts full to bursting
Eyes roaming across the depth
Reticent of what lies beyond our reach.
Ever present wonder

( Posted by: Jessicanm [Member] On: August 4, 2004 )

somewhere out there part 12
You, my day, I can barely see
while I, your night, die behind you
rising and reaching into fire.

We used to be unspecified, knew
nothing of opposites and now
we may touch at eclipse moments
only, never alone, a spectacle.

Known as darkness and light,
we repel each other, remember
an early union and how
we needed no galactic luminaries.

Sub-nuclear quirks (quarks?),
we implode into what language
becomes, somewhere in here...

( Posted by: windchime [Member] On: August 4, 2004 )

Somewhere Out There, part XIII
The dreamer wakes.
All of existence, as we know it,
Ceases to be.

The cosmos, eternally feuding,
Needs to realise
That both sides were right all along.

God created this wonderful place;
Infinite in complexity,
Incredible in simplicity.

Science explained this entire Universe;
Big Bangs and Supernovas,
Strange and Charmed 'flavours,'
Everything evolving through 'magic.'

Science and Creationism:
Two sides of the same atom,
Working together in balance,
Always directly opposing each other.

( Posted by: the Co.konspirator [Member] On: August 4, 2004 )

Somewhere Out There Part 14
every negative comment out there
sculpture on soft clay
the artist with barbed mind
always having their say

is there a mirror out there?
for each lost in the mire
reflecting the setting
we want to be in and admire

somewhere out there
is a setting for all of us
where the warm earth tones
halo you in sultry finesse

( Posted by: Londongrey [Member] On: August 5, 2004 )

Somewhere Out There - part 15
Standing on the roof one clear night
I was gazing up at the stars so bright
They lay on a background of midnight blue
And I wondered to myself if it’s true
Might there be other life out there?
Others in the cosmos somewhere?
Are they looking for us as we look for them?
Would they come as foe or come as friend?
Somewhere in the deepness of space
Beyond our planets and the Milky Way.
Traveling at warp speed through black holes.
To see just what our small planet beholds.
I think there is a definite possibility.
That we are not alone in this galaxy.
Would they come with lessons learned?
They too raged war and their world burned.
So their lesson is to put away all weaponries
So all life forms and races can live in peace.

( Posted by: CJHerlihy [Member] On: August 6, 2004 )

Somewhere Out There, Pt16...
Shimmering, twirling, planets gyrating,
Gravitating, motivating, tide undulating.

All bodies linked by repulsion or attraction,
Forces tug-o-warring for maximum interaction.

Old farmer’s almanac points of reference,
Held in astronomer’s highest deference.

Bubbles and baubles illuminated,
Twinkling adornments accumulated.

Life unfolding in an orbit’s arc,
Causing effects with light onto dark.

Creator’s masterpiece, for all to see,
No bias, no discrimination, no fee.

Perfect symphony, without end,
Awaiting a finale, yet to be penned.

( Posted by: tinalouise [Member] On: August 6, 2004 )

Somewhere Out There, pt 17
He stood on the top of Mt. Zion
Clicking a flashlight, on and off,
again and again, into the night sky.

Quizzacal stares of those surrounding
found him, and asked the same, inevitable
question.

"What are you doing?"

He replied, in a superior fashion,

"Don't you know that all those flickering stars out there are just other people
somewhere out there
on other planets doing the exact same thing I am right now?"

( Posted by: mzjen1 [Member] On: August 6, 2004 )

Part 18, Somewhere Out There
The Brylcreem makes his hair look wet
a carnival barker's mirth,
the passengers saved all year I bet,
to go to the "happiest place off earth".
Middle class luxury all the way
The resort has a crater pool,
All the new characters are aliens
with the ever-present merchandising tools.
It seemed like a good idea at the time
for Disney to buy the Moon
They guaranteed a good time for all
and we bought in as we usually do.
Nothing there is different from here,
the houses cost way too much
there is pollution, politics and junk food
Some ruin whatever they touch,

( Posted by: arc [Member] On: August 6, 2004 )

Somewhere Out There pt 19
Are you here?
Are you there?
Or are you just floating
next to nowhere

Do you hide
in an abyss?
Or in the no space
of nothingness

Do you dream?
Do you weep?
Are you dead or asleep?

Are you real?
Or just some smoke
That we inhale
Just one cosmic joke

But I can hope
And I can pray
That you are Thou
In every way

I just know
Deep inside my heart
That you do exist
In this shallow mist

Somewhere
Out there
N
o
T
Nowhere
B
u
T
Everywhere

( Posted by: rcallaci [Moderator] On: August 6, 2004 )

Somewhere Out There part 20

Lost in a glittering unpeopled void -
no conduits to anywhere

sans warmth
sans love
sans life

I am a space drifter

Trekking through this unbounded
velvet dark of fear and possibility

I seek
I find
I breathe

I am a space sojourner

Allowing myself to expand with
this universe, into a soft prayer - I feel

this space
this place
this grace

I am a space believer

( Posted by: huni [Member] On: August 6, 2004 )

Somewhere Out There... Capt.'s Log, Stardate (WTH is that, anyway?) Pt. 21
This time they caught me docking,
So my friends for a bar are stalking,
The station we're at, Is called Trensho Flat,
Now off with the guys I'm walking.

This Party they planned in advance,
Our meeting here not by chance,
They played me a fool, And broken the rule,
The visit seemed purely romance.

They'd called my girl from Jomet,
A waystation near Sulu's Comet,
She played me along, And linked up this throng,
I've no time to send in a maumet.

I thought it was her that I'd meet,
She'd promised a pleasant treat,
A new year begun, I'd turned twenty one,
I naturally reserved a suite.

Things did not go as planned,
Got into a fight and was canned,
The other guys plight, Was not a good sight,
The rest of this journey was bland.

( Posted by: daprdan [Member] On: August 6, 2004 )

Somewhere out there, part 22
Constellations emerge, one by one,
cut from the artistry of
giant black-hole dwellers
enslaved into solitude
by gods of no mythology...

Twelve will become jewels
in a dream-dusted crown, the zodiac.

In the anti-matter editing room,
the brightest stars receive their infamy,
ten thousand years at a time.

Later, when activating rites assign
these twelve sentinels their influences,
the crown will begin
its magic spin, stir each Age
2200 years, until the present destiny,
Aquarius,
and its preference
for retrograde superstition.

( Posted by: windchime [Member] On: August 7, 2004 )

Somewhere out there, part #23
I've read all your theories
But you hven't a clue
So now I'm here to enlighten you
What I say is the truth (I swear!)
There are no aliens floating out there

Flying in space ships
Are Senior's from earth
Who've claimed this spot
As their own turf
Nobody notices in outer space
The wrinkles they see
On a critter's face
There is no need for wheel chairs here
They float around in the atmosphere
They have no enemies
No foes to fight
They have nothing to do
But party all night
This planet is theirs
They're a "far out" crowd
They're delighted to tell you
NO YOUTH ALLOWED!
Those "mysterious lights"
Of scientific fame
Is the glow they get
From popping Champagne!

( Posted by: Beatrice Boyle [Member] On: August 7, 2004 )

Part 24, Somewhere Out There
(Peterpaulino's part, sent to me to post because he was going to be away from computer)

Boo Hoo, my Ma has sent me away.
If it’s because I was lazy doing my homework
I don’t think it will be this way!

Boo Hoo, she clad me up
Not in jumpers but armors,
And she even asked me to shut-up!

Boo Hoo, but I saw she was teary-eyed
My Ma must have acted against her will,
Her face, distorted like someone just died!

She wiped my face with her white hanky
Kissed me on the forehead and handed me my helmet,
‘Be good my sonny,’ was her last whispers to me.

Now my rocket ship launched in outer space
I look past the porthole; our planet’s getting tiny,
Missing her more by the moment, my dear Mommy!

And then to my surprise, Franily exploded!
Oh, My, I left my mommy over there, no way!
Now I know, now I know why she sent me away! Boo Hoo

( Posted by: Clairesbest [Member] On: August 8, 2004 )

Somewhere Out There: Part 25
You would deny God, with all your prattle
of primordial soup, and the explosion that set
this galactic carnival in motion,
like some pistol shot
heard throught the cosmos, and all the disparate
universes, galaxies, and planets
that are still running laps.

Can you not see the careful finger of design
in the delicate balance that holds
this ball of mud, a mere hair's breadth
from Frost's fabled Fire or Ice.
Do you think the universe a mere lottery,
where somehow the House always wins.

I can call the labcoats foolish, blind behind
such powerful lenses, bumbling detectives
who can not see the night sky is covered
in the fingerprints of The mastermind.

( Posted by: Bartleby [Member] On: August 8, 2004 )

Somewhere out There, Part 26
I look to the heavens,
I see freedom for all;
A simple utopia,
Where peace reigns
With a feather hand.

I gaze at the stars,
I see heroic deeds--
Lasers and mystic powers,
Swords and spaceships--
A festival for the spirit
Of the child within.

I think of space,
I hear the symphonies of life,
The melodies of stars
And new harmonies,
Interpreted in the whim
Of The Divine Conductor.

I turn back to Earth,
I see all my dreams;
Nothing but decrepit idols of clay.

( Posted by: the Co.konspirator [Member] On: August 8, 2004 )

Somewhere Out There: 27

They took on the adventure,
the bravest of the brave,
From many different nations
over which many flags were waved.
The press had quite a field day
A teacher was going on one trip
The world mourned when an o-ring
Malfunctioned on their ship.
Another journey fated,
At shuttle's take-off danger loomed
And they never even knew
That their mission then was doomed.
We go on because discovery
Will render tiny lessons learned,
By those without faint heart or fear
Hard fought, and always earned.

( Posted by: clairesbest [Member] On: August 9, 2004 )

Somewhere out there, part 28
Spider Grandmother has returned
to Sotuknang her maker
in the skies.
She awaits the birth
of extra-terrestrial Hopi
but cold, sunless rocks
remain barren...

Without a protectorate
whe makes no further journeys
between Arizona and Heaven.

Her nebulous spirit envelops
an asteroid and she still carries
her webbed basket
now adapted to angels.
Her benevolence leaves trails
of legends in every night.

She rests at ghostly, gassy gateways,
her blue-corn kernels, frozen.

( Posted by: windchime [Member] On: August 9, 2004 )

Somewhere Out There Pt29
Tiny strings and un-plucked things
A whisper a touch and Nothing sings
Subtle vibrations and sound emanations
Stillness unstrung a song is sung

Heat palpitations crazy gyrations
Star dust dreams and tachyon streams
Physical totality a new reality
What was undone has just begun

Radiation initiation spatial anticipation
Alpha Omega Time’s a creator
Quasars and multi-colored stars
Exploding and imploding a universe reloading

The fiddle was strung it rung it rang
Chaos and order begun and began
Tiny strings and un-plucked things
A whisper a touch and Nothing sings

( Posted by: rcallaci [Moderator] On: August 9, 2004 )

Part 30/ Somewhere Out There
Took a ride to sit on the moon,
figured there I'd be alone.
But to my unexpected surprise,
the moon's not empty, all were lies!
I see a hammock upon a crater,
thought I'd pass it and come back later.
But boy oh boy to my own shock,
what was there but a very old clock.
As I approach it, I see a note.
From my own kid's, here is what they wrote.
"Mom oh Mom, please come back soon,
no more running off to the moon.
We know you're out there, we can see.
No more hiding or running free."
So I decided to go back now,
Can't even escape, they found me, WOW!

( Posted by: nae411 [Moderator] On: August 9, 2004 )

Somewhere out there part 30.5
things you see in space

all the lost socks
the angels’ red shoes
the plans that you made when you drank too much booze

unbaptized babies
the shores of the styx
heinlein & asimov & philip k. dick

the dreams of the living
the ghosts of the dead
the monsters that used to hide under your bed

the child you were
& what you might have been
cosmic debris and original sin

( Posted by: mercer102 [Member] On: August 9, 2004 )

SOT thread 31
Drawn by gravity,
Swirling stardust,
Rolling, tumbling,
Orb forming crust.

Generating magnetism,
Growing in size,
Birthing organism,
Perfect star size.

Joining others,
Synchronised dance,
Planets and stars,
Performance.

Bit part performers,
In a universal show,
Shiny costumed,
All aglow

( Posted by: tinalouise [Member] On: August 9, 2004 )

Somewhere Out There, Pt. 32
A traveler still you are
and also the orphan I’ve known,
the vagabond
after I kept you in my home.

A wanderer.

You think,
alone you are in this space,
cruel you’d always see
each faraway planet,
and that I was one among them
who pained you
—but you were wrong!

Traveler,
my shelter goes with you,
my motherly heart goes out to you
withstanding harsh meteors,
wherever you may be.

Wanderer.

( Posted by: peterpaulino [Member] On: August 9, 2004 )

Somewhere Out There, part 33
Somewhere out there, the next frontier.
Life seeking life, how far can we go?
Discovery and kowledge, these things we hold dear
We on Earth just need to know

Life seeking life, how far can we go?
Searching for meaning that lie in the stars.
We on Earth just need to know
That the call to life isn't solely ours

Searching for meaning that lie in the stars
Those who fear, who care not if we find
That the call to life isn't solely ours
Are surely wrapped up in the outer-reaches of mind

Those who fear, Who care not if we find
Discovery and knowledge, these things we hold dear
Are surely wrapped up in the outer-reaches of mind
Somewhere out there, the next frontier.

( Posted by: mzjen1 [Member] On: August 9, 2004 )

SOT Part 34
dry dust and neolithic monoliths
cast long shadows over wider valleys
these tombs of a glacial age
cast question marks over who we are

do we look out there for the answer?
or do we dig beneath the ancients
that stand within the dead landscape
pretending to hold no clues

somewhere in there then
may hold an object precious to us
a lost tablet of knowledge
or a fountain of youth

( Posted by: londongrey [Member] On: August 10, 2004 )

SOT Part XXXV
What might we find somewhere out there?
Could there be space travelers without fears?
Existing in the pitch black and cold of space.
Way beyond the Old Man on the Moon’s face.
Cruising at light speed amid planets and stars.
Perhaps hiding behind the planet Mars.
With ships as large and luminous as our moon
They slowly rotate and float like balloons.
Trekking through space, here and there.
Like humankind, space is their final frontier.
Undetected by our technologies they circle Earth.
Not as a threat but instead very, very curious.
As our thirst for knowledge goes unquenched.
Extraterrestrials seek answers to their questions.
They are more adept at space travel than we.
Thus they feel it’s not quite time for us to meet.
Some of us think they were here before and do exist.
And when the time’s right they’ll come again to visit.

( Posted by: CJHerlihy [Member] On: August 10, 2004 )

Somewhere Out There Part 36
Her hair became the stars
Intertwined above the heavens
Where her eyes became the sun
And the moon, that danced
Their mobile shadows around
The void spoken by the Word
From her mouth, crescent-shaped
Spiralling towards the centre
Of existence.
I reached out, up, towards the
Faintly blinking freckles that
Fail to light the sky behind
The amber streetlights,
Realising that the space outside her heart
Was infinite.

( Posted by: False Dawn [Member] On: August 10, 2004 )

Somewhere Out There Part 37
Somewhere outhere a tin can is spinning
Along the endless trajectory careening,
Still out of control.
Away from us all.

His mother's got silver hair
His kid grew up to be debonair,
He tells me his dad was no junky,
Stuck up way up high feeling funky.

Our boss said
To get things done
And say nice words
About Major Tom.

( Posted by: Teflon [Member] On: August 10, 2004 )

Somewhere Out There part 38
There is somewhere out there, in ethereal space,
Not of this Earth, or any known place.
I fear that humanity won’t understand,
We are not on our own, in a singular land.

Galaxies and planets are things of the mind,
We set the boundaries, made for mankind.
There are more kinds of beings than ever we see,
And they are all living, for eternity.

Beyond all the barriers, of our physical lobbies,
Some creatures ‘may not’, incarnate into bodies.
I’ve travelled with them, both in goodwill and fear,
Have not any doubt, they are really quite near.

But where is this ‘near’, it exists in ‘our’ space,
You’ll travel by spirit, to enter this place.
It will not be found, by using six senses,
But flying away from our world’s pretences.

Demons and Monsters, and Angels and Gods,
All reside in this place, where you’ve never trod.
I know for I’ve been there, I’ve walked on this track,
Go look, but make certain, you mark the way back.

( Posted by: ivordavies [Member] On: August 11, 2004 )

Somewhere Out There part 39...
Somewhere Out There,
All can be found

Nations, creations
And vestiges abound

All that you've read here,
Are but a few

Of possible scenario,
To be found by you

Life form and places,
too numerous to say

Will have an effect,
On how life will play

( Posted by: daprdan [Member] On: August 11, 2004 )

SOT, the ending

Somewhere is ethereal
"Out there" is across the street
But there is not a doubt
It's a place that we will meet.

When all is said and done,
We'll look back at this and say
Remember when the words we wrote
Were all about our "someday".

I don't know what we will find there
But I know we had a part
In creating something beautiful
Which may be reality or may be art.

THIS THREAD IS NOW CLOSED. WITH THE FERVENT THANKS OF THE STARTER, THE SITE, AND EVERYONE WHO READ IT.

( Posted by: Clairesbest [Member] On: August 11, 2004 )

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