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We've also got a similar set of lovely space poems that's more suited to older learners in upper key stage 2! Rhyming couplet – A rhyming couplet is a pair of lines with the same meter, or syllabic rhythm, that end in a rhyme. A rhyming couplet poem can have as many pairs of lines as the writer wishes but must have at least one pair.

An eclectic collection of poetry from BCE to the present, which reveals our unchanging response to a starry night, along with our changing understanding of the science.'I think that's what we're trying to get at in that section of the preface that, what Whitman saying about going out and being in the mystical moist night air we agree with that sense of looking up to the sky kind of seeing and experiencing what we can see and what we can imagine our way into. But that also, like you said Matt, the work of scientists, the charts and the numbers are also really important, that's the fact-based part, giving us the information to then really imagine, even beyond that. Elegy – An elegy is a poem of a serious, somber, sad or reflective nature, often a lament for the dead. Let's get to another one of these poems, we've got nine in all that you were able to get permission for us to have readings of. There are two poems in the book that are by astronauts. We also have two astronauts who are ready to read them. So let's hear from the first of them right now. Concrete, pattern or shape poetry – This type of poetry uses the layout of words, typographic elements and other visual cues to convey meaning that relates to the subject referred to in the poem. They are largely Americans, not entirely, I mean, we're going to hear one by Pablo Neruda before too long, there is tremendous diversity among them though. You mentioned that there are so many more of these that it sounded like maybe there might be room for a second volume with more of a global focus of down the line?

Around 70 years later, the former slave Phyllis Wheatley, in her poem “On Imagination” envisions leav[ing] the rolling universe behind:

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I'm just fascinated by the fact that here we have two poems, so different and yet both inspired by the same instrument of science. When a massive star uses up the last of its energy, the pressure produced by the heat drops, causing gravity to compress the star into a tiny space. The result is a supernova, an incredible phenomenon where this sudden collapse causes a massive explosion. His book, The Underneath was awarded the 2016 New American Poetry Prize. We gathered a few days ago to talk about this new collection and to hear nine of the poems read by my other guests, our readers recorded their selections at home which is why you'll hear the audio quality vary but I bet you'll love their reads just as much as Julie, Chris and I do. Julie and Chris, thank you so much. As you know, I have been looking forward to this episode of Planetary Radio, this very special feature with great excitement. Welcome. Happy and serene, they believe eagerly; their soul is the deep and sudden brightness with which they burn the summit of the loftiest problems; and to know the world, they but scrutinize themselves. PlanetVac. Planetary vacuum, it uses a pneumatic gas driven system to force surface samples of planets or moons or comets or asteroids into a sample container for return to Earth or for analysis on the body. We, our members allowed us to provide key funding twice in its development. Now it's been selected to fly on not only one but two missions. It will be flying to the moon launching in 2023 on a NASA commercial lander as part of a tech demonstration. And then it will be flying as a NASA contribution to the Japanese MMX mission that will launch in 2024. And it will be sampling Mars' moon, Phobos for material to repeat return to Earth. So we're very excited. Congratulations to Honeybee Robotics, who is the company behind PlanetVac and we're looking forward to cool stuff in the years to come.

In this poem, Housman laments the death of a man he loved and admired, drawing upon the language of the constellations: Time for What's Up on Planetary Radio. Bruce Betts is the chief scientist of the Planetary Society also the program manager for LightSail but as I've said many times also involved with oversight of many other projects we have underway, including one that has just met with wonderful success, wonderful validation. Hey Bruce, welcome. Tell us what's going on. Ideal for dipping into, and as easy to enjoy as a glimpse of the stars at night, this anthology is filled with those tiny doors into the infinite that poetry is so good at throwing open.' Haiku – Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry consisting of 17 syllables in three verses. The first and third lines have five syllables, and the second has seven syllables. Traditionally, haiku focus on images from nature, are written in the present tense and use direct language emphasizing simplicity. Julie Swardstad Johnson and Christopher Cokinos of the University of Arizona are the editors of Beyond Earth's Edge: The Poetry of Spaceflight. One more poem is still ahead. I don't think Bruce is going to win the Nobel with it but you never know.I think as we were putting this book together too, something we talked about was the importance of having all of these different perspectives. We weren't looking to have only poems that were kind of coming from a really positive direction. And I think that's one of the important things that this collection offers and that poetry kind of offers to us. I mentioned earlier that I feel like poems are good at letting us look at something from multiple angles all at the same time. And I think that in that sense with this book, we hope that it kind of encourages some critical reflection and not in a way that takes away from our excitement about space flight but that can really make us ask good questions and work towards the best that we can do.

This short poem is almost actively ‘unpoetical’ in its imagery, and offers a fresh look at the moon. We have often found poets praising the beauty of the sunset, but what about the setting of the moon? The image of moon sand in the second line almost convinces us that moondust has fallen to earth and is there in the canal. Blast off into the unknown and discover a galaxy of KS2 poems with this space KS2 resource from Pie Corbett. Space has long been a source of inspiration for poets, offering a canvas to explore the mysteries of the universe. Here are some of the best space poems. 1. Around the SunBlast off into the unknown and discover a galaxy of poems with Pie Corbett... The Rubbish Tip Alien And how nice that we were able to include Linda Spilker the project scientist for the close of that mission or actually many years of that mission through the close of it. But the science is still rolling in as we saw just recently with those newly processed images from Enceladus of the tiger stripes.