Space Poems

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Sometimes, the best way to explore the mysteries of space is through laughter. Here are some interesting poems about space about the cosmos that are sure to make you smile. 1. A Ride into Space

To celebrate its 40th anniversary, how many 25-meter dishes make up the Very Large Array in New Mexico? There could be 2 possible answers, either of which will be accepted. Concrete, pattern or shape poetry – This type of poetry uses the layout of words, typographic elements and other visual cues to convey meaning that relates to the subject referred to in the poem.

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Blast off into the unknown and discover a galaxy of poems with Pie Corbett... The Rubbish Tip Alien Because we have two poems here in these nine that are both basically about the Hubble Space Telescope. If you don't mind, I'm going to go on to the next of these it's from someone else who's been heard many times on the show, so we'll go to that now. It is qualities like this which make the poetry of Richard Aldington worthy of closer attention than it has often received – this is a fine example of his imagist mode. These poems for space capture the magic of the night sky, the beauty of the stars, and the mysteries of the cosmos, inspiring readers to reach for the stars and explore the wonders of the universe. I'm just fascinated by the fact that here we have two poems, so different and yet both inspired by the same instrument of science.

Happy and serene, they believe eagerly; their soul is the deep and sudden brightness with which they burn the summit of the loftiest problems; and to know the world, they but scrutinize themselves.In this poem, Housman laments the death of a man he loved and admired, drawing upon the language of the constellations: All of our resources are created by qualified teachers so that you know they're suitable for children, beautifully illustrated and engaging for everyone. Five Little Men in a Flying Saucer Nursery Rhyme for Children

But the more I started looking for these poems early on in this project, the more I found writers who were really digging in and really doing research or really coming to this topic with their own love and enthusiasm or with really serious questions about what's involved in the process of going to space or thinking about space. And through what poets bring to the table, I think we get kind of different perspectives on space flight. In popular music maybe it doesn't go quite as deep but poems, one thing that I think poems do well is that they can allow us to kind of sit with something and sit with a small detail and really think about it from a lot of different directions at once. It's wonderful. And I didn't know that about Bill, but we were kind of thinking about these different readers that you found and imagining their voices and we thought, oh, we can hear his voice reading this poem it's wonderful to hear him read that. This year we did all the proofreading for this book, all of the copy editing and in looking at the book that way you kind of get bogged down in just trying to make sure everything is exactly right. And it's such a pleasure right now to hear them read really as poems again and kind of hear all the connections that run through that poem.

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And not only that but cities, smoke, the roar of crowds, bells, and violins, the feet of children leaving school, all of that is alive in space now from now on because the astronauts didn't go by themselves. They brought our Earth, the odors of Moss and forest, love, the crisscrossed limbs of men and women, terrestrial rains over the prairie's. Something floated up like a wedding dress behind the two spaceships, it was spring on earth blooming for the first time that conquered and inanimate heaven depositing in those altitudes the seed of our kind." To look at the night sky is to look into the past: we are looking at stars, not as they are now, but as they were thousands, perhaps even millions of years ago. MacNeice’s ‘Star-Gazer’ thinks bigger than man’s three-score-and-ten, reflecting on the fact that some of the stars now bursting into life will never be seen by the poet, because they are so far away their light will only reach earth a long, long time in the future. Like a ride in a spaceship, this wonderful collection of poems takes you on a unique journey. Through a myriad of perspectives, you’ll fly in space, visit the stars and planets, and explore our place in the universe.’