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POEM STARTER
You are lying in the grass staring up at a multitude of stars in the night sky. Write a poem about what you imagine life on a distant planet to be like.
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That orb there - shining
No, the one to the left
Yes, it’s shimmering -
Who is looking down at us?
Do we share emotions,
Thoughts, personalities?
Can we begin to comprehend
Life on that star, or another,
Or life anywhere besides here?
What do houses look like there,
The idea of home - is there one?
If there is not, we would have
To figure out a whole new way
Of thinking, and what a chor...
We stare up at the sky
Hand in hand
Not discussing our thoughts
But knowing just the same
I stare off into space
And I can almost see
Us living on our own planet
Just you and me
We would laugh and dance and sing
Not a care in the world
With each other for company
I would hold you close and you would let me
But in the end, its not meant to be...
Beyond the Elysian stars,
A much different world had opened,
Where matter danced
Ever so freely to
this one absolute frequency.
Beings of endless light,
Who had no strife,
Nor a body to touch,
No tears would be shed.
Maybe I had known
this place before;
How awfully I longed to
go back home....
Here I lay on the surface of what we call Earth
The mountains, grass, and ocean is all I have know since birth
I wonder what life is like miles away in the Milky Way
I wonder if they live like us and our cheery ways
Every night I lie on the Earth’s blanket to spy
Spy on all the twinkling stars and the majesty the moon
Under the bright moonbeam I like to imagine
Imagine how my day would be
if i g...
The girl exhaled, her breath condensing in a faint puff as she gazed. She imagined the countless exoplanets tucked away in each pinpoint of light.
Perhaps of all the stars her naked eye could see, not a single one held more than a puddles’ worth of microorganisms. Perhaps of all the stars beyond her view, only one held life anywhere near as complex as that on her own.
Perhaps those people looke...
I’m sure it is paradise, but I am alone
Natural beauty, untouched
A day is far too long
Without another human soul to share it with
Wild animals roam free
Nothing to hurt me
But sinking loneliness
Just one hammock in the tree
Hummingbirds sing, sweet songs to each other
My laughter goes unheard
What life is this, if not to know another?
I would rather have been spared...
In the vast expanse of the cosmic sea,
Where distant stars twinkle, so far and free,
There lies a planet, unknown to our sight,
A world of wonders, bathed in celestial light.
Its atmosphere, a tapestry of hues,
With swirling clouds in vibrant blues,
A symphony of colors, dancing in the air,
A spectacle so enchanting, beyond compare.
On this distant planet, life takes a different form,
Evolved an...
Sometimes I forget
Things have changed
It’s a moment I hate
When you wake up
And realise
You can never
Go back
Wish we could
Sometimes I forget
That I’m not the same
Person
I used to be
That mistakes have been made
God I shouldn’t have done that
And I know you remember
All the time
All the tears
All I said
About wanting to die
So I’m sorry
But you forgot the rest
The showers that went on too ...
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