Exceptional free verse with minimalism Patterns : 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 Author Notes 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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