(Relating to, "But Outer Space" by Robert Frost.)
Personal Spaceflight around the corner,
Bigelow and Rutan building new ships;
Paying passengers cross Khazak border,
Ride Soyuz craft for their ISS trips.
International Space Station coming together,
Shuttles visiting, adding more components;
Europeans Columbus vessel making it better,
Pleasing space habitation proponents.
SpaceX and SpacDev airbrushing spaceliners,
Numerous upstarts peppering NASA with plans;
Delays and glitches promised to be minor,
Won't our travelling future be grand?
All this noise and hullabaloo,
Generates exitement and adrenaline.
If one could live a century or two,
Could see some of it come to fruition.
Reality is agonizingly slow progress,
Fits and starts, occasional successes.
Taxpayers watching, getting a bit depressed.
Author notes
Robert Frost poem "But Outer Space" Link:
www.poemhunter.com/poem/but-outer-space
Funny, short work of his:-)
A contest entry
- Robert Frost-based Contest for Allpoetry, Winklings & Friends #51 by Lyndon.
2590 points, ended March 14, 2008, 5 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Comments
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You stuck to the space theme.
The style would not be exactly as I would think Frost would write. There is a folksiness and wit not there. It is difficult, isn't it, to be another Robert Frost.
These lines are fairly close, I think:
" If one could live a century or two,
Could see some of it come to fruition".
Thank you for entering this contest.
Lyndon of the Winklings.
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Very interesting write
The style is just as he would write and the subject of a contemporary nature. Good luck in the contest.
Jim
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Thanks!
Seems to be good mental exercise to emulate some of the great poets, fun to write about contemporary stuff (the stuff I can relate to best). Appreciate the feedback!
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