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SPACE ODDITY
Puzzling cloudless starry night
Light years long travels star light
How long is a light year then, who knows?
The North Star, Polaris, is relatively close
Its fluorescent glow needs at its birth
Only three hundred light years to reach the earth
And the pilot at the helm, the steering man, proudly braves
The elements, finds his way through ocean waves
Lead and enlightened by the polestar’s bluish fire
To safely reach the harbour of desire
Puzzling hot reddish planet
Mars hovers in space like a pomegranate
We know no green little men who lurk
Visitors so far were just Mr Spock and Captain Kirk
Mars remains man’s object of foolhardy imagination
Only recently of worldwide aspiration
To settle on its scarred desert surface,
To find water, micro-organismic life, the purpose
So that one day we’ll leave that homely globe
Populating Mars, the ancient war God’s land, they hope
Puzzling space station ISS
Circling round the earth, a big success?
Fifteen times per day orbiting around the world
What are they doing in that high-tech bird?
They say society owes them the Teflon pan
Of which I am no enthusiastic fan
Russia, Europe, USA experiment together
Everybody weightless as a feather
Sometimes they send a woman up to galaxy
How do they make love in zero gravity?
Dietmar March 2021