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 Apr 29 2006, 05:50 PM
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 The Poet Dude  Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60  |
I wish! No, I work in a Care home... in what I laughingly call my "spare time" I'm an author of children's science books, but no, the Mars poems and short stories are purely for me, (and you!), at least until I can get a publisher interested. I've been trying for ages, but, well, it's a slog.
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Apr 29 2006, 07:38 PM
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 Chief Assistant Group: Admin Posts: 1409 Joined: 5-January 05 From: Ierapetra, Greece Member No.: 136 |
Many thanks Stu, that's wonderful.
 It stirs up the exact emotion one would have out there I think.The feeling of experiencing a bunch of locations the girls visited is in the mind of everyone of us addicts I reckon...but you sure know very good how to describe that sentiment. It was very relaxing, I'm thinking about going early to bed and dream the dream - of walking over there, in the dust. Nico 
-------------------- photographer, space imagery enthusiast, proud father and partner, and geek.
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May 1 2006, 11:56 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
Stu, About your poetry...one word: BRILLIANT
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May 1 2006, 04:34 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Thanks Astro0, glad you liked it, just playing with words really.
Inspired by your Solset panorama - and the equally-beautiful versions others have created, too - I wrote a new story about how it will be seen, and thought of, in the future... The Spirit Lingers -------------------- |
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May 16 2006, 08:53 PM
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 Director of Galilean Photography Group: Members Posts: 896 Joined: 15-July 04 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 93 |
Broken wheel
White dust trail Winter haven -------------------- Space Enthusiast Richard Hendricks
-- "The engineers, as usual, made a tremendous fuss. Again as usual, they did the job in half the time they had dismissed as being absolutely impossible." --Rescue Party, Arthur C Clarke Mother Nature is the final inspector of all quality. |
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May 18 2006, 09:32 AM
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 Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
QUOTE (djellison @ Apr 7 2006, 11:20 AM)  Some of you may have spotted Stuarts poem over in the 5-wheels thread, and rather stupidly I culled it ( in light of the new rules ) instead of moving it to here - because it's an excellent piece...hopefully he can repost it in here.. A bit of googling around and I found this http://www.sffworld.com/community/story/1150p0.html If you like MER, if you like Mars - read it...it's a stunning short story, almost had me in tears. Nico, you HAVE to read it, same with you Ustrax - it's utterly brilliant - it captures my visions of the future of the Columbia Hills very well indeed. Doug Doug...I've read long long time ago... I'm Stu's work avid reader, a fan, an admirer, since the days of the beggining, the days of the quest. I keep all his work well preserved, for me it's history and something tells me future generations will read it as legendary... Love your work brother! -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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May 18 2006, 10:15 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14445 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
And - check out this months Planetary Report
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May 18 2006, 12:59 PM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
QUOTE (djellison @ May 18 2006, 11:15 AM) And - check out this months Planetary Report Doug I'm not a member, can you give a hint of what's about? -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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May 18 2006, 01:43 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14445 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
1) SHAME ON YOU
2) One of Stu's poems is in there. DOug |
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May 18 2006, 04:29 PM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
QUOTE (djellison @ May 18 2006, 02:43 PM) 1) SHAME ON YOU 2) One of Stu's poems is in there. DOug Don't embarasse me before all this people... 
-------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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May 21 2006, 10:48 AM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Thought Victoria deserved a poem as we approach her...
VICTORIA The name you christened me, fair Victoria, does not reflect the agony of my birth. I am a scar, a gaping, gawping hole in this world’s weary body; a scooped-out, sightless eye forever fixed on but unable to see the sky. No-one saw me born; no frightened eyes were shielded by rapidly-raised hands as my Father punched my Mother Mars so hard, so brutally her body shook for days, leaving behind an open wound that e’en an aeon of drifting dust could never fill. In my indignant, incandescent rage at being born I scattered shattered stone out of my cooling crib; vomited smoke and ash into the lacerated sky, banishing both cerulean sun and ice bright stars until my agony had ended. Time passed – and ate away at me, gnawing on my body like a crow upon a corpse. My edge, once smooth, a graceful curve, jagged and ragged became; a sore, saw-blade shark-tooth sculpture of crumbling stone, the shattered bones of my angry youth left protruding from the ground to be wind-whittled and hewn into grinning gargoyle buttresses and balconies of splintered, sharp-shard stone. Leaving me hollow. And now, lured here by my Beacon’s ghostly lantern light You come to me – a scurrying metal messenger from the Morning Star; impatient to lean over the gory edge of my opened chest and gaze down at my dust-clogged heart to learn more about my life? Do not expect me to surrender my sad secrets instantly – or easily. I am worth more than that. © Stuart Atkinson 2006 -------------------- |
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May 21 2006, 10:44 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2262 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Melbourne - Oz Member No.: 16 |
Brilliant as usual Stu, great work.
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May 22 2006, 09:24 AM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
That metal messenger will have a word on that...
Great words Stu! In them we can navigate between worlds. -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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May 22 2006, 02:11 PM
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I have always been looking for poetry about the MER rovers. And here I have found some!
I will store these wonderful poems on my harddisk so I can read them in the future. -------------------- I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse; therefore choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed.
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May 22 2006, 02:20 PM
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Stu,
Fantastic. Thank you Chris |
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