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Robert S. King

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Poet, editor, cofounder of FutureCycle Press, and retired Software Engineer. Author of nine books of poetry. Published in hundreds of magazines. Website: http://www.leftypoet.online

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The Pale Blue Dot | Dissident Voice Voyager 1 image, 3.7 billion miles from home If those who would abandon earth could look back so far, home might seem only faintly where the heart is. Here in our local minds, stars shine blindingly b...

Thanks to Dissident Voice for publishing my poem, "The Pale Blue Dot."

dissidentvoice.org/2025/02/the-...

10.02.2025 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm in a nostalgia mood at the moment. Here is one of my poems from 1980 that was first published in a long-lived but now-defunct mag, Windless Orchard.

Orphans Adopting Themselves

from our fathers
we inherit feet

from our mothers
long arms

we walk away
always reaching back

22.01.2025 00:39 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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