space

Poem #199

~ Georgia Tell ~ 2 Comments

space girl!
you can have more than the world
space girl!
let your flag unfurl
space girl!
take this ship for a whirl

space girl!
you’re cute
in your baggy pastel suit
on your galactic route
launch the supersonic parachute

space girl!
you’re brave
willing to risk the grave
it’s humanity you save
send your song to the radio waves

space girl!
you can have more than the world
space girl!
let your flag unfurl
space girl!
take this ship for a whirl

space girl! space girl! space girl!

float through the nebula
nothing is regular
more than incredible
real, not the replica
scan her retina

it’s space girl! space girl!

stars that glitter
hit the transmitter
and she skitters
across the universe

space girl!
you can have more than the world
space girl!
let your flag unfurl
space girl!
take this ship for a whirl

space girl! space girl! space girl!

Poem #151

~ Georgia Tell ~ 1 Comment

space jelly with a half-opaque exterior
exists in a lonely vacuum in the universe
its insides: viscous, swirling pastel metallic stuff
its hard exterior protects the gooey insides
but none of it serves any productive purpose
there is no history, just its being
and that’s completely acceptable

Poem #70

~ Georgia Tell ~ 1 Comment

lodged into a crevice
on an asteroid in the main belt
there is a perfectly sealed container
see-through on all six sides
sent to space in 2098 AD
it had created a buzz in the scientific community
a self-sustaining micro-world
a godly concoction of microbes
each chosen for its complementary processes
hundreds of years later
and many millions of microbe generations
it’s forgotten by humans
but evolving all the same
occupying the cold box
in a crack of an asteroid
in the outer reaches of the Milky Way