pack your trash
leave Earth better
than
you found it
when you chose shelter for the evening
here
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photo by Enfeng Tsao on Unsplash
(x = space)
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this was written to a prompt, requesting that we each write a flash horror story; I chose science fiction and verse
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The Haunted Spaceship
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How did it happen
Everything so new
It shone until it didn’t
Dials webbed over
Levers tarred
Footsteps on the ladders
No one there
A crew long dead
Remains reduced
To bones and ashes
What had happened
Smiles into cameras
Perfect launch
More smiles
Funding possibilities
Enhanced
First step into space
This far
To chase the satellites
That sang of Earth
Sending the best images
Of us
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So far away
Holo-communications
Brought them near
And we were glad to see them
The balanced crew
Representative
Diverse
And curious
Standing for nations newly
Treated into harmony
The fates of nations
Then
Riding along
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Voyager 9 had sent
A message as a surrogate
That said
Basically
Y’all come
X-y-z coordinates were sent
Along with certain helps
To make the journey
Doable and done
And so went
All Earth along
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And now a year or so
Into it
Passing a dark star in
Every way
Not foreseen
And then they started dying
Believing they were haunted
First
The ghosts in the machines
Entrails in food
Eyeballs in coffee
Someone did the research
On how to frighten Earthers
Locked in a ship
Passing through outer space
So far between worlds
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The air grew thin
According to the meters
Hallucinations thus enhanced
Even if they knew
They drew within themselves
And then took to each other
Unlocked weapons
Made their own
Attacked with nails
So well-manicured
Pretending claws
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The last two killed each other
There was no final message
The sun poured in
With unseen rays
Into chambers unadjusting
Atomizing everything
Except the ship
Become like consequences
Used to say
Of the breeder bomb
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A resource now
The Everest now rests
A peak in space
Of our adventure
It waits
Someone will come
From either place
Who knows
Or doesn’t know
What happened
And what happens now
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Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash
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(x = space)
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All These Worlds
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God, help our
Nation to be good
Our world to be great
The cosmos, when
Receiving us,
Never-ending wonder
And discovery
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Liturgic wishing
Into prose action
New metaphors required
Upon each arrival
In a spaceship
On a new shore,
Bearing guilt and hope
Germs and solutions
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Ready to eat there and
To take some sips from
A silver sea
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The International Space Station
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(x = space)
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To Pilgrim
(at Thanksgiving, USA)
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Pilgrims
On Thanksgiving
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We make fun
Of their hats
And buckles
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They might as well
Have been a foreign
People to the
(rest of the)
Whites as all the
Indigenous to
The whites
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And they were:
They were a foreign
People
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They carried faith
And dignity,
Faith in dignity,
To what all the western
Coastal, European
People called
A new world
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Through stratagem
Or accident, they
Settled too far
North
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They struggled;
They strove
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Everything was
Struggling and
Striving to them
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Moving, going
On their way
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For them, to be
A pilgrim was
An action
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On a journey
Neverending, ‘til
The end of this life
Start into another
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Photo by Dhimas Widrayato on Unsplash
It was 22:39, I went out to get some fresh air after some coding session then I saw a big moon on the sky, so I grab my camera then go to open space to shot this picture. The photo was taken in Tangerang, Indonesia.
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(x = space)
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Exegete the Rocket Ship
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The shortest verse
Is Jesus wept
My favorite one is Help my unbelief
And then the verses about
A heart created clean
By God,
Presuming that means re-cleaned
As well
Doubt and renewal
Sorry, they’re important
I think we need them
Though, yes, I’ll speak mostly
For myself
When it comes to meeting means
For spirit and or in the flesh
The realms where we dwell
Without preference
Or will
We simply are in these
And must do our best,
Which can be exciting
On our planet buzzing through the universe
Of lithesome opportunity
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“Axel Tschentscher,” CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=83143301
Church of the Holy Ghost in Bern. This is the spire in evening light with a clear view of the 4000-meter peaks of the mountains Eiger, Mönch, and Jungfrau.
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