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I have a story for you

Of the night I travelled to

Space up above the sky

No hint of a lie

I tell you its true

That last night I flew

Reached space very soon

And stood on the moon

I landed on Mars

And visited the stars

I made the long trip

In a gleaming spaceship

Then I floated to see

The planet Mercury

And not too much later

I landed in a crater

I was the first one

To loop 'round the sun

The first of my genus

In the clouds of Venus

I flew to Alpha Centauri

This is my true story

Its no Jackanory

and Proxima Centauri

I was the first man

At Aldebaran

I took a different track

To fly my way back

I wanted to go

To purple white Pluto

Found Neptunes' moon Triton

Sought Saturns' moon Titan

Went to Jupiters' Io

and landed on a volcano

I wanted to know

What its surface would show

You ought to believe me

When I say what I did see

The places you could be

And the way that it should be

If we went out to space

The whole human race

Right up from this place

And built a moon base.

Inspired by space science and engineering, Arthur C Clarke, and the music of Pink Floyd and David Bowie.

I normally add my PhD research but this time thought I'd submit this poem.

I am a Researcher in the final year of my PhD. I specialise in applying Semantic Web techniques. My current research is on a technique of 'User Driven Modelling/Programming'.