Satellites

by estory

Weightless
Weightless in their orbits
Around the planet Earth

In orbit
In orbit

The spy satellites
The weather satellites
The telecommunications satellites

Communicating
Communicating information
With their dish antennas
And their solar panels

High resolution pictures
Infrared time lapse images
Digitally compressed news
Long distance telephone conversations

Received and transmitted

Around and around
The planet Earth

In orbit
in orbit

From outer space
We can see the satellites

The spy satellites
And the weather satellites
And the telecommunications satellites

Glitter in the sunlight
With their golden solar panels extended
And their dish antennas pointed back to Earth

Going around and around and around

With all of their blinking lights
All of their blinking lights
Blinking lights

Blinking

Lights

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This is a poem in which I tried to capture that sensation of being in space, up there with the satellites, flying around the earth in orbit, weightless, exchanging all that information. To capture that sense of orbit, I used repetitions, and I tried to throw in a little sinister element with all those spy satellites, and a sense of the coldness of the mechanical machines going about their programs, with nothing you can do about it. estory

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