Explorations of a Versemaster

By Marleen Duckhorn

Currently, space flight is a reality restricted to just a few hand-chosen persons participating in government programs around the world. Thanks to companies like Virgin Galactic, space travel will become available to the public in the near future, provided one has enough money to pay for the trip.

In the meantime, you are invited to join in these imaginary explorations. This verse master meets intelligent alien life in space amid lessons of mind0traveling wisdom, interjects a vortex of humor, and is content to exist in an unparalleled acceptance of true destiny within each phrase within her interstellar wit. She plots the excitement of bending space, shaking hands with aliens, and coexisting in a nebula of stars. She hopes these poems offer a unique perspective of insight, which allows the readers to tag along for the ride as though it were their own. After all, its no fun to travel alone!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: May 27, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524503451

Marleen Duckhorn

Marleen Rita Duckhorn was born in 1951 in San Diego, California. She has been publishing poetry books with Xlibris since 2007. In this, her eleventh book, Explorations of a Versemaster, she hopes to convey the idea that she is an explorer, is curious about the goings-on in the universe (part present and future), and all this through her muse of poetry. Her website is www.marleenritaduckhorn.com.

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CONTENTS

Explorations Of A Versemaster - Chapter One

Time’s Trademark

Coat Of Arms

Ode To Orion’s Belt

The Race To Mars

Begging For Forgiveness

Strategy Of Wings

When God Tips His Hat

Serpents From The Skies In Ancient Times

Guesswork

Methods Of Salvation

Shoulder Pads Of Oblivion

When Life Is Discovered On Other Planets

Peace On Other Planets

A Random Cause

Over The Clouds

We Go Back Up To The Sky

Corset Clouds

Solved Puzzles

Wonton Landscapes

Put Bad Memories In An Imaginary Coffin

Write Back To Bliss

One Lost Sheep

Close To Reason

The Writ Of The Kingdom

The Population Admits Diversity

Sitting On A Golden Ship

We Cannot Account For Doom

Superior Songs From The Sky

The Mark Of The Bee

Breach Of Earth’s Contract

Stored Inside

Star Spangled Why

Moon Madness

Do You See This In The Sun?

Claims Of Despair

Second Class Citizens

When The Bell Fell

Atrocities Of Oblivion

Jeoparadized Love

Shocked By The Abyss Of Time

Sad Observations

Love Starved

Comments From The Curious Tabernacle - Chapter Two

The Last Earth’s Heart

Adieu To War

Deliver Us, Oh Savior

Hearts Turn In On Themselves

Knowledge Of The Strongest Heart

A Concrete Glimpse

Bulbs Of Indigo Orbits

Numb From Birth

Chorus Of Opinions

Strength In Numbers

Angels On Loan

Mythical Magic

Contentment

The Pause Is Over

Secrets In The Sand

Critical Access

A Daunting Task

The Warring Tribes

Geographical Captivation

Cradles In The Sky

Stop The Fear

Draw Your Own Conclusions

Contact The Source

Nearer Intellect

Carbon Copies

Culture Of The Transcendent

Volcanic Wisdom

In A Rhythmic Circle

Is Space A Huge Circle?

The Yen To Say Yes To Something

Fear Of An Earthly Catastrophe

Fanatasy Hoax

Bricks And Stones

Mother Of The Universe

Exceedingly Fortunate

Our Looks

We’re Only Here Because Of The Air

Dependency On The Sun

Poem About The Author

Jettisons Of Imagination

Gone

A Tip From An Earthling

To Those Who Wear The Space Suits

Courage Is Victorious

Under A Calm Sky

Our Mission

The Cosmic Web

In The Alabaster Moonlight

Private Solitude

Virus Of Heaven

What Earthly Person

The Gods

Skill Of Dreams

Distorted Earth

The Enigmatic Concept

What Is Coming To Our World

Daylight On The Moon

Byproducts Of Stars

Sequins In The Sky

The Portal Book

Light Itself

World Wide Restitution

Mark Of Looking Back

Can’t Step On Any Toes

As The Universe Spins

Savior Poetry - Chapter Three

Inspiration

Poets And Computers

Showing A Fictitious Realm

Gods And Angels

Shreds Of Evidence

In The Indigo Darkness

Respect The Gods

Retreat To The Heavens

Your Face To An Alien

Aliens Can’t Resist

Bent Space

Ensured In The Rapture

Resurrection

Vision

Our New Look

Spinning In The Rhyme

The Entertaining Sun

Attention Sky

Remarkable Life

Great Fiction

Human Brains

Totem Madness

Sensing The Ways Of The World

Concepts And Designs Of Repetitive Habits

Ancient Progress

The Grand Design

In The Spew Of The Big Bang

The Fallen Angels

Ode To The Yellow Sunbeam

Priests

Explorations Of The Curious Tabernacle

Pipeline To The Stars

Jamorbee On Jupiter

Within The Pillar Of Stars

Spontaneous Truths

Broken Compass

Statues And Art

Meeting Someone From Another World

Wanderlust

Angels And Angles

The Edge Of Infinity

Bland Were The Minds Of The Ancients

Life

The Key To The Rhythm Of Truth

The Sandbox

Tears Of Now

Volunteers From Space

Perpendicular Planet

Do We All Have Death Inside Us?

A Safe Place

Rare Winged World

Hidden Vow

Silence Has No Enemies

Explorative Verse

Personal Salvation

Planet Earth

When They Landed

Other books by Marleen Rita Duckhorn published by Xlibris since the year 2007 include:

Red Daughters in a Foreign Spotlight

Soul Beam

Zoom Lens

Double Decked Nature

Gravel Pit on the Moon

Rocks on the Road

Poems of Gratitude

Written Rhythms of Space Travel and Earthly Things

Say Yes to Time

Flapping Soul, Words in Verse

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to Gort from the movie, "The Day the Earth Stood Still", for giving me my earliest childhood memory of an alien from outer space, for his message to planet Earth, and to all people on Earth who can stretch their imaginations.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to thank my husband, David H. Neidner, for his love and support, my step-father, Edward Severson, my mother, Dorothy M. Severson, Shawn Barry Ellard, and Jude Corte, for their kind encouragement, and special thanks to Bernice Walker for her outstanding technical support.

PROLOGUE

In this book God is a word to define a vigilance of a consciousness or deities of the day that run through all existence; gods, however, are descendants from the inclusive factor. The gods are anyone who ascends from outside Earth’s atmosphere to reconnect. The life on Earth could be a vigilant extraction from the gods transported here to procreate their planet and even cohabitate.

The gods are unpredictable. We call these beings gods because they are coming down and hovering above us in an ethereal region identified by humans as a spiritual domain or beyond