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Daniel A. Stafford | 9/26/2000 8:35:06 PM
8/31/2010 3:07:32 AM | 1607 |
Hearts In The Clouds
Look down.
Far down, what do you see?
Clouds, verdant green fields, deep blue sea?
Here we live above weather, above seasons,
Floating endlessly around the world,
Our neighbors all below,
Our trade spanning the globe.
The bright cloth of the balloons above,
Our city strung from cables below,
The smallest child taught to fear and revere the sky,
Our blue heaven and carpets of cottony white.
At night, you can see the stars so clearly,
And our astronomers the best of those that remain with the Earth.
We carry the great loads into the final frontier,
The launches from our platforms bringing a revolution,
The solar system opened to humankind.
Great floating cities hung from colorful cloth,
Dreams that swim through the great blue and white.
It's so fun when we float down, our landing balloons laden,
The Greeners all smiling like it's Christmas.
Even the hawks and eagles look up to us.
AquarianM
By: Daniel A. Stafford
(C)2000
By: Daniel A. Stafford
Author's Comments
Another future vision, the brute force of ground-launched
rocketry replaced with floating balloon cities and loads
carried above most of the gravity well, drastically lowering
the cost and complexity of space access. Perhaps the
true spaceports will one day float beautiful among the clouds.
The interface for global and pan-solar trade. The low orbit
space stations the next step up, above the rocket zone .
Perhaps even electromagnetic launch platforms stationed up
in the blue hung from miles of multi-hued cloth bubbles.
Solar power, information relay, trading above and below,
leaders in Earth-based astronomical sciences.
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| Janine Daniel | spinnys@hotmail.com | www.spinnys.com | 9/30/2000 2:57:53 PM |
When I read this poem (and like so many of your
amazing poems) my first reaction is WOW! You've
got the most incredible imagination.
I love this poem too...*S* |
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