Best Pluto Poems

tabby cat slinking
around the house, looking stealth
pouncing and prancing

lover, neat and sweet
purring for a stroke around
his silky neck...

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The world’s astronomers after a tumultuous debate
have decided to reduce the number of planets to eight.
Little Pluto out in the reaches of the solar system
has been the subject of controversy and criticism.
This body orbiting out in the deep solar space void
is now classified by earth’s...

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Pluto Slam It Planet  

It was Aug. 26, 2006 in Prague
Some guys got together for grog
Astronomers by name, came for a game
To vote on the matters of science
Instead they gave Pluto its shame

To their blame they demoted the planet
It was out there as solid...

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Earth does ballet to stay in shape
dancing before the rubbernecking moon
that chases us around the sun
making waves in oceans like our emotions
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Oh son of Saturn
still holding true
to your father's law
of limitation.

Will Neptune capture you
as Triton?

Expose your simian line!
Celebrate your difference!
Embrace your darkness!

For only in its depth
will the seed of any living thing
become fertile.

Yet you hide behind
a distorted window
of frozen atmosphere.

Still, the truth is revealed
in your eccentric...

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"Murdering Pluto" 

On Pluto, 
they deal with trauma
in the best possible way,
they murder it slowly 
in poetic hell 
day after day.

the dark Seraphim
have their way. 
their ways are stellar.
some say they hover
in the stratosphere,
but that's much too clear. 
They're in the parallel
dimension, that forgotten,
unnumbered place....

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I’ve no knack for hasty hesitance
In truth, I positively press-
Do you realize how aligned the planets are?
How the stars—they shine brighter,
Yes, I know it to be so!

Why do you think my pupils enlarge at the sight of you?
Can it be that when I look into...

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STARS FROM PLUTO
Stars from Pluto, falling on earth,
Strangers are they on our planet.
No honor or salute to the dirtied star –
That was once a diamond in the sky.

But few years ago they were our treasure,
In their lights we counted our pleasure.
Gracious they were, oh’ blinking...

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Fetch me a shooting star
Every 248th year!
On your boomerang orbit 
Pay us a visit...now sit!
You're man’s best friend by far...

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PLUTO

The name conjures up a lot
Dopey Disney dog extra to the plot
Forgotten one-time planet of the night
Not a Jupiter giant, gassy bright,
I’m just a small rocky ball
Nowhere near the sun at all
Cold enough to freeze the nose
Off Santa’s Rudolph as he glows
No regular orbit, just...

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Note-- The Tulsa World Newspaper published my prose version of this in February 
1999 and I wrote this version later.


Poor orphaned Pluto is out in gloom and frigid cold
Considered an outsider, his bitter sorrow unfolds
Demoted from planet status he had enjoyed for years.
He lost his...

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“Planet” of the distant
past, now considered too
petite for the title.
Pray, don’t you despair now.
Pirouette though pitch void,
pretty as always, for
perhaps our minds will change.

4/11/2021. Written for Kim Merryman's "Pleiades P" contest. 1st prize....

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Pluto, tell me, why do you cry

Let your tears dampen and dry

Unless you fail the final quest

They will seem to be the best

Oh Pluto, they'll respect you in the end...

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I believed in you,
Loved you despite all your flaws.
I no longer believe in love.
You killed that part of me.
I hope you are content.
I will never contact you again.
I’m leaving you alone,
Because that’s what you wanted since the beginning.
I knew you didn’t love me,
But I really...

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the puppy
like the worlds
runs in circles

she’s cute,
that puppy
I think i’ll name her

Pluto....

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