Tuesday, May 7, 2013

To Mars With Words


Would you like to go to Mars?



In a small way you can.

NASA is sponsoring a Haikau contest. Three winners will be chosen and have their poems inscribed on a disc that will be aboard the MAVEN explorer spacecraft that will reach the red planet sometime in the next couple of years. Its purpose is to study Solar Winds on the planet and speculate why Mars lost it atmosphere.

The traditional poetic Haiku has three lines.

The first line has five syllables.

The second line has seven syllables.

The third line had five syllables.

I like the idea. It’s idle fun.

Here’s my submission:

“Martian Solar Winds
MAVEN gathering data
Maybe breath again.”

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