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Off We Go!

Posted on 2025-04-12 by Bartholomew Barker

First to circle the world in ninety minutes First to shed the weight of Earthly pressures First to see the firmament from the outside May we all be as brave as Yuri as we travel into the unknown   (Happy … Continue reading →

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Fraiku for Ham

Posted on 2025-01-31 by Bartholomew Barker

First great ape in space: just a little boy trying to please his torturers   (Today is the 64th anniversary of Ham‘s historic flight into space.)

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Fraiku: Night Gems

Posted on 2022-07-15 by Bartholomew Barker

More diamonds and rubiesstrewn across the night skythan are found on Earth Photo from the JWST. To celebrate the Sorta-Sonnets posted on Whispers & Echoes, I stole two lines from each of the seven published works and made a pastiche … Continue reading →

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Looking Back

Posted on 2021-11-02 by Bartholomew Barker

Looking Backfor the James Webb Space Telescope Far past the dark side of the moonNever again to feel the warmthOf human breath or touch I need absolute cold for my workTo stare for days unblinkingSift light into colors Note the … Continue reading →

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Falling Free

Posted on 2021-04-12 by Bartholomew Barker

Instead of writing to someone else’s prompt, I wrote today’s poem for Yuri’s Night, the sixtieth anniversary of the first time we put a human in orbit. Falling Free Mission Control didn’t knowhow he’d react without weightso they locked the … Continue reading →

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Bury me with my Glasses

Posted on 2015-04-30 by Bartholomew Barker

The Science Cafe was packed tonight for the lecture on the Hubble Space Telescope’s 25th year in operation and the audience was very appreciative of our poetry. I combined the prompt below with the presentation and came up with my … Continue reading →

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Pale Blue Dot

Posted on 2015-04-25 by Bartholomew Barker

From the Poetic Asides blog: For today’s prompt, write an across the sea poem. This could be a love letter, an electronic submission through cyber space and time, or a travel poem (by air or sea, though probably not car). … Continue reading →

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