MY POEMS, REVISITED, by Victor P. Gendrano

by Victor Gendrano on Monday, January 29, 2013 at 8:05pm ·

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COLUMBIA SPACE SHUTTLE

by Victor P. Gendrano © 2003

(To the seven astronauts, including 2 women, of the ill-fated 

Space Shuttle Columbia, February 1, 2003)

let our remains

scatter on earth’s bowel

we’ve paved the way

so future astronauts

can carry on our goals

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yonder above the vast expanse

how puny the earth looks

a blue-white speck adrift

almost in nothingness

just for a little while there

I sensed not only loneliness

but fragile hope for humankind

in its incessant search

for peace

World Haiku Review

Vol. 3, Issue 1, March 2003

Then finally published In my book, RUSTLE OF BAMBOO LEAVES ©2005, at this address:

http://www.lulu.com/shop/victor-p-gendrano/rustle-of-bamboo-leaves/paperback/product-246155.html