Blue Marble Poem

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Blue marble poem.

Send us your flash stories or something longer upper limit 1500 words. Evans command module pilot. Blue marble review accepts submissions year round from writers ages 13 22. Blue marble review is published four times a year and accepts submissions of poetry fiction non fiction essays opinion pieces travel writing photography and art on a rolling basis.

Blue marbles green marbles black. Beautiful blue marble is reminder of each of those failings religion personal enrichment. Send us your stories. Poet laureate ted kooser s column american life in poetry read full biography.

More about this poem ode to marbles by max mendelsohn about this poet max mendelsohn s poetry has been published in former u s. We are looking for new work that hasn t been published anywhere else either online or in print. Stare at the dot for any length of time and then try to convince yourself that god created the whole universe for one of the 10 million or so species of life that inhabit that speck of dust. The blue marble is an image of earth taken on december 7 1972 from a distance of about 29 000 kilometers 18 000 miles from the planet s surface.

Read great cli fi and environmentally focused short stories poetry and features here. It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica. Madhavan 12 13 2015 9 53 00 pm. Take a good long look at it.

Opinion pieces and miscellaneous but well written rants all up to 1500 words. Up to three poems per submission. It was taken by the crew of the apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the moon and is one of the most reproduced images in history. This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap.

Earth divulges its true state as oceanic and atmospheric warmly. I am obliged to you for selecting two old poems of mine for your commendation which i value immensely. And scientist astronaut harrison h. We need such readers as a musician who performs in public needs the clap of at least two pairs of hands best for the new year to you.

Charlie bottle before colonization of other nations began the exploitation of the earth s natural resources were done for individuals to benefit themselves and their families post colonization it was for king and nation and post industrial revolution it was for corporations and faceless stakeholders. At first glance it seems to have the sheen of blue veined marble. Look back again at the pale blue dot of the preceding chapter. Four pieces of artwork scanned jpeg format or four.

This was the first time the apollo trajectory. But look closer and that spherical perfection softens a little. View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a.