Drifting in space

You can't make it back to earth,so you know you either have to drift till you die,or take your own life...However...You will be able to see things beyond what any man,or woman has seen before...Explain...

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Out There

Zero gravity sensations
floating aimlessly towards nowhere
slowly
thinking cheers to the space program
looking around for Spock or Alf
knowing it's all over now
just a matter of time
heavy contemplation
but the pause lent clarity
with lessening disparity
I looked out, beyond
into the expanse of time
watching the fallacy unravel
smiling at the facade
how much I bought, invested
thought I had
I laughed and closed my eyes
willed my passing
and crossed

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DRIFTING IN SPACE


The brilliant deep blue ocean

Shades of green and surf white

Seeing atolls and clouds drift by

The sun comes up like thunder

It sets just as fast

This mission has gone way past wrong

I definitely will not last

So I have a choice, live until food and water run out

Or kill myself, with what they have provided


So far I am doing well, just trying to decide

When all at once an alien ship comes near

By this time, what the hell, I let them dock

They are fully dressed, as am I, in our outer space gear


We have a secret universal translator, and so do they

They say they cannot bring me back to earth

But would I come with them to their planet, far away

I pack my bags with what I need, and go an join them

I have to live in a sealed room full of oxygen

However they give me little pills and wonderful food

I am happy I chose to go, knowing my cyanide capsule

Taped to my chest, will relieve me if things go bad


We travel through a cosmos, only shown through the telescope

With undulating sheets of colour, like the northern lights

In an out of black holes, and in an out of white

Which our scientists do not know of, but Alice knew

A universe so beautiful, so grand, it is hard to describe

Is in contrast to this race of men, built to last


Grey is not their colour, they have grey suits on

They look like naked pink mice with high IQs

Always polite, they bow to each other

As they stay out of each others' way


So I alternate between watching through the porthole

At vistas that are hard to describe

Reading what they gave to me

Passing time


I lived on their planet in a house built for me

I could not come out, and they could not come in

If you are reading this poem, I have died

They sent it with a spaceship, to the other side


The message is in a canister, and it reads like this

Dear Earthlings you have destroyed your own land

We did that once before, and now we take a stand

Of no harm to the earth and no harm to the animals

As for you "humans", you are acting like cannibals

Instructions on how to come back from the precipice

Are clearly written in 10 languages

If you fail to follow them, we are sure

That the planet earth will die

For Gaia is her name

We read about her once

We know it will be a shame

To be on our list of extinct planets

Who were much like you

Intelligent and capable, but stupid and greedy

In the name of religion or politics or wealth

You drove the planet down


As for your astronaut, he loves to get high

So he will live out his natural life on euphoriants

Do not worry about your man

We even cloned a woman for him

Using one of his ribs

He will live to a ripe old age

Don't you go worrying about him

The only worry you have are your

Children's children's children....

Very nice,thanx for starting it of Miki & P.B.U.Y

“Fixing the Bubble”
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Things happen in space
unknown to us on Earth,
the endless hours,
no concepts of time,
you can lose your mind in this place.
We had been working for weeks,
the televised
HST-repair-mission,
its telescope had
been malfunctioning,
not reading the
low ultra-violets.
On the last day,
the commander-in-charge
said we had
to move quick,
the Perseus shower
was heading our way,
we’d be dead meat
from the meteorite-heat
in T-minus-twenty.

Damn!
That did not
give us much time,
there was still
plenty to do,
if you only knew.
Perkin-Elkins
designed this bad boy,
a 24,000-lb behemoth
capable of the
most magnificent,
vivid-astrophotography
in the entire universe,
no distortion,
laser-clear.
The flawed mirror issue
was one thing,
but not reading
low UVs was serious,
we had to get
this mission complete,
and fast,
those flying-rocks were
heading this way
at supersonic-speeds.

I asked the foreman
for the ratchet,
got no answer.
What the hell was he doing,
space-dreaming?
I asked him again,
screamed for the tool,
still no answer.
Jesus!
I spun around to look.
God Almighty!
The crew was all gone,
they were nowhere to be seen,
a shiver went down my spine,
to stay out of trouble,
they took refuge
in the Hubble,
we called it The Bubble,
how unkind.

Christ!
Those guys
had left me out here
all alone
in the sub-zero cold,
to face
a horrific
fiery-death,
solo.
I was a fool to
trust their calculations,
the first meteor
whizzed by so fast,
it was ten minutes early,
singed my boot,
melted the heel,
that hurt.
This was crazy,
freaking insane,
me floating,
dodging,
pelted with cosmic-dust,
to think I trusted them.
The next heat-rock
slammed into the craft,
dead-center,
taking have of it with it,
I could see human-entrails,
they looked like sausages,
snakes floating in space,
quite sickening.

Quickly,
I used my
propulsion-device
to get away,
get myself out
of this terrible mess.
Good Lord!
I moved just in time,
the next meteorite
finished off
what was left of
the craft,
not a trace,
no wreckage,
it disappeared
into thin air.

Sadly,
it had
happened again,
lives lost,
millions tossed,
just another day
in the life of
a working-astronaut.
But,
no worries.
You see,
I heard the Russians
were on their way
over from the ISS,
be here in an hour,
gonna rescue me.


HST-Hubble Space Telescope
ISS- International Space Station

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I'll Be Right There

I've been here before
All of my life in fact

Suspended between life and the unknown
Seeking salvation and acceptance by many who I'm now foreign to
Unseen by

Yet enjoying my freedom above them 
Unpolluted by the very things which keep them bound

I can feel her tentacles pulling me
She's not the monster my mother always said to stay away from
Make sure you have protection daddy would warn
But she's always been there with me 
For me

I built sandcastles under her
Held hands and stole kisses
She colored my daughters' skin 

She's warming my back now
Pulling me faster and faster 
Moving me closer and closer
I can't resist her 
I never had the strength 
I'll just sleep 
So we can be together

Shoulda brought marshmallows 

Beyond The Capsule Door

(Or what happens after David Bowie’s hero dies in space, set to the tune of “Space Oddity”)



Ground Control, it is no more.
Ground Control, it is no more.
I’ve stepped through the capsule door.
(Ten ) Ground Control, (Nine)  I am no more  (Eight)
(Seven, six)  This countdown’s   (Five)  different than before;  (Four)
(Three, two)  Meant for landing,  (One)  destined right for Heaven’s Floor.

This is Heaven’s Floor to Major Tom,
You’re floating very near
Turn your engines off and land right over here.

This is Major Tom to Heaven’s Floor,
I’m seeing with new eyes
All the secrets that are God’s up in the skies,
And the place where all the astronauts must go
For having gave their lives for duty—I know.

Now here, as I’m landing in a new place
Alive, in Lord’s embrace
The colors bend, entwined,
Rainbows right before my eyes.

And though I don’t know really, what went wrong,
I’m feeling very whole
From the welcome of the souls here that I know.
My wife will be ok and learn to make a start
Without me, but filled with God’s grace within her heart.

This is a new place, Major Tom.
This is your new life, Major Tom.
Will you join us, Major Tom?
We’ve been waiting, Major Tom.

I was travelling in the SPungemat Rocket
First the DOg RONNY then me
ANd I was going to Jupiter planet of church laws
Somewhere RONNY never went before

The planet had plates with empty signals
there where no directions and the MArshian Priests
where all gathering human genes for transgression
I couldn't see a savior

The rocketship SPungemat had no radio signal
Gravity was pounding in my heart
I couldn't find my steps but I was lifted in the air
For moments at a time, the velocity of the aircraft shuttle
left me deaf

I was blind with no priest In Jupiter able to exorcise me
All the marshian priests are having human transgressions
But the planets universal laws are on the side
of the most sensitive, and I was allien

I found the Spungemat SAtellite ready
to tansmit signals of disbelief and ill fame horror
Of the human genes transgression to Marshians
The transmission polluted the air with criminal cells

Modified by a Satellite with intentions of creating
HUman bombs, the Marshians wanted to die
There where no church laws in Jupiter
There was only a sacred universal law lingering for Allien only

I commanded the spacecraft to leave Jupiter
to go to Earth and warn CHurches about the transmission
THe pilot was found dead with a cross left in his hands
I Allien found a COMMANDER and he suddenly pressed a button
which set the assembly mission too early

The Commander was infected by the Spungemat Satellite transmission
and started drinking a dead priests blood
I luckily was saved by a passing Spacecraft
The austronauts where human and I survived with the feeling of decomposure

The black hole
on the other side of a black hole is where you can find me
Feeling null and void
Lost in the vacuum of nothingness
A souless vessle waisting away
In a graveyard for stars
Where asteroids collides

THE BLACK HOLE
on the other side of a black hole is where you can find me
Feeling null and void
Lost in the vacuum of nothingness
A souless vessle waisting away
In a graveyard for stars where asteroids collides
Damn this is hard the words jus wont come
Pent up anger have me exploading like a supernova lying
In the fields of pluto
The death and rebirth of a universe

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Space Exploration Gone Haywired

Drifting in space
almost out of oxygen
before I passed out,
dreadful thoughts flashed
through my numbing brain:
     river of darkness
     fire in the lake
     modern tyrants
overriding sweet memories:
     afternoon walks on the beach
     sipping vintage wines
     making love afterwards
before I join
this space exploration.

I have been floating for days
within this dark abyss,
lost sense of time
defecating in zero G,
until there was
an ominous splintering crack--
followed with quick flash images
an updraft... caught me
boosting me farther
into oblivion,
turning into quagma
beyond infinity

Icarus Project


I'm gonna send him to outer space,
to find another race.
Spaceman, I always wanted you to go
into space man


How exciting then, to be chosen
handpicked, best of the best
The Intense training
all worth it

Champagne flutes toast the christening
Icarus the Sol dancer
Solar sails unfurled
five, four , three
two, one
ignition

Day 82
Just.....plasma....storm
Klaxon sounds
this is not a drill
...Mayday...
..Control..
Circuits fried pungent smells
wafting through the ozone

There's a fire between us
my love, where is your god?
I have lost control
if the oxygen system holds
I will have the most
spectacular view of the sun
Here I fade to black
My love know
I think of you
Icarus signing off...

Is this oxygen deprivation?
I swear there is a beacon
shining out there
I can hear Sneaky Sound System
I saw a UFO but nobody believes me
ground control to Major Tom
Beam me up Scotty
I want to go home

Into The Abyss~

"It was just another random systems test,
'Get your suit on and your ass out on that deck!'
When I came out the ship, through the air-lock doors,
Didn't know I wouldn't see anyone anymore.
I got out on the Deck and something must have went wrong,
Alarms and flashing lights came on, then it was gone.
I woke up floating through this void all by myself,
And now it occurs to me that no one will come to help.
If only I could have known what I know now,
I wouldn't be looking out at the world
wishing I could get back Home somehow.
I would have stayed on board and died there with the crew,
alas, I'm in this nothingness, what can I do?
I find myself in this Abyss, staring deep inside,
I feel it staring back at me, comforting my mind.
As I find release I find that it's so peaceful here,
There's no Hate, there's no Pain and, certainly, no Tears.
Just Planets floating like big balls upon calm Ocean tide,
Just beauty in this nothingness to help me pass the Time.
The Stars look so amazing here, like giant fireflies,
Wandering so aimlessly inside this endless night.
I'm glad that i could be right here as Time just fades,
Oxygen is getting low but its not like I can evade.
So into this Abyss I go, with no control,
Letting it consume my Mind, my Heart, my Soul.
I thought it would be nothingness, but I was wrong,
Surely this is Heaven and my Soul is moving on.
It wants me here, i hear it calling me, The Great Abyss,
It tells me if I let it it will take my Loneliness.
I think that I know what it wants me to do,
And I guess this is my last goodbye to you.
I'll take off my helmet and welcome Her embrace,
And I will be forever free inside this Beautiful place.
Don't know if anyone will find this recording.
It doesn't matter anymore.
The Abyss will have already rescued me......"

Outwards, unto nothing
To see what no man has seen
To feel what no man has felt

I have the grey round window
I gaze through my small grey window, tranced in the nothingness
All I see is a mercliess reflection

A lunatic lusting longingly into the bleak infinite
No escape from the outwards drift
Rasping, banging, panting at the window

Thanks Jasper for providing the challenge ... It really gave me a situation to think about.

Great work by everyone.

LSP