1st November 2018
Somewhere out in the northern skies
There’s a little blue man
Aiming to communicate…he’s
Really far away, but
Sends you a signal from off in the distance
Space
Moon Man
Salford 12th September 2018
#promptuarium #Visitor
When the men from the rocket
landed on the moon
they weren’t expecting
a reception committee
The locals hadn’t seen Astronauts
and invited them to tea
they looked a little different
but acted like you and me
And they helped the men collect
rocks and soil from the ground
as the bosses from earth
wanted to know – if there was life around
And after the ‘nauts had left for home
the moon people to earth would go
to learn about their next door neighbours
in their fancy UFO
Spacekid
Salford, 22nd August 2018
Another piece inspired by the #Promptuarium
Many thought you a funny kid
On most nights they’d see you staring into space
Overlooking the positions of the stars and the zodiac
No other subject interested you more
Destiny ? to be the first man to live – on a base on the moon
Until then – you sit out in the garden – plotting your way there
Satellites floating in zero gravity over your head as you
Track your course with telescope, pencil and paper
Depleted
They pulled the plug
took its power away
all communication
stopped
Now floating in space
a toy for the little green men
floating in space
with little to do
Visitor
A tale of Constellation – first told on Allpoetry.com
The great relation of the sky
decided today would be a good day
to pay his sister a visit
He moved quite fast
for a constellation his age
as he travelled unaided through the stars
The Young whippersnapper
also known as “the red planet”
nipped at his edges – he wanted to play
And news from the rest of the family,
made his stars shine bright
in his mass of gas, chemicals and rock
A word with his brothers
out beyond the rocks
and then he moves off – to look after his flock
the family of planets
who’s father has died
and the small little planets, who often have cried
Outer Space
#coloryourworld #cyw #outerspace
Picture created with Colorfy
looking out into the night sky,
it’s difficult to tell what colour outer space is
we paint it black – like a sheet of silk
and those far off dots in the fabric ? far off mystical worlds
we gave them names – and put them in stories
myths and legends, told many moon rises ago
Aries to the Huntsman we follow with pride
through telescopic lenses or newspapers inside
and the robots we send to examine these stars
landing on the moon, and venus and mars
are the UFO pilots playing hide and seek ?
Its a question the scientists ask every week.
Horoscope Zoo
Another Piece from my archive at allpoetry.com – taking the characters of the Zodiac and placing them around the zoo…but where’s Pisces??? 
Horoscope Zoo
By Brian F Kirkham
The twins were bored,
they had nothing to do
so off with their mum
they went to the zoo.
They went to the Farm section
and fed the sheep and the goats
The twins liked Capricorn
who had a bell round his throat.
Over in another pen,
were the cows and the bull
Taurus, was his name
and was eating till he was full
Taurus was real large,
and had horns really big,
one twin noted
“He eats like a Pig!!!”
They visited Leo
in his grand lions hall
Lying on his rock
the primmest cat of all
And over by Leo,
the waters flowed by
where Crabs they scuttle
and silver fish fly
“Who’s That?” said the Twins to Mum
Pointing over to a man by the sea
“Why that’s Aquarius , Children,
he’s catching Leo’s Tea!!!”
A NASA Small ad….
(Alternative Title : Would you like a trip of a lifetime ?)
I came up with this piece of Found Poetry after playing with clippings from adverts and headlines in the local newspaper.
Hope you all enjoy it..
Take a starry trip!
We’ll see you get
Everything you need
to be
taken to a new extreme
trust us – It’ll be
SPECTACULAR….
Heavens Games
Whilst down on earth they’re half asleep
Heaven’s Children round their parents jump,
playing with metallic lumps,
and making the gas clouds bounce and leap.
And through the air some of them creep,
collecting rocks in great big clumps
to create stellar asteroid piles;
It doesn’t leave them down in the dumps!.
And whilst they play in the cosmic air
Mum and dad watch on with pride
as the siblings play on without a care.
Sometimes there’s squabbles, as hard as they tried
But big Siblings and Cousins, help one and all,
to pull up the little ones, in case they fall
#Sonnet #Blogging101 #Napowrimo #Day23 #Space #Poetry
