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Thank you to all who submitted entries for the LiftPort T-Shirt Poetry Contest from the Contests Newsletter . This contest was a lot of fun and I enjoyed receiving your entries. Here are the results...
The winner of the LiftPort T-Shirt (available from our store), based solely on random drawing from the entries received is:Mark Benvenuto Congratulations Mark, and thanks to everyone for your participation, At least I had a lot of fun reading these. I also learned a little something about what we're doing here. Although we're busy working in the nano fields, working on turning our balloon testing rig into a commercial product, and especially working on the social and political aspects necessary to see this project to completion, we're not doing a good enough job communicating that. That helps me know what direction I need to focus. Thank you. Here are the poems:Now I want to go
In a Space Elevator
Away to the Stars - David Filmer | ribbon of diamonds
slips through the clouds and escapes
blue marble below
- Lee Sudduth
| A silvery thread
Rising up above the Earth
Destiny awaits
- Greg | The sky leaks away
unmasking countless lamps
beyond heaven's ladder - Bruce Cordell | Space Elevator
Rising high above our Dreams
A Wonderful World - James Madara | the clouds fall beneath
my feet, the sky melts away
i am superman - Justin | The sky is falling
by Peter Garceau
Can you imagine,
A Lifter Swiftly climbing?
Space draws ever closer
| Soaring high above
like a child attached to its mother
held to us by cord - Jinzo | Fish climbs waterfall
Modern star rises to sky
Returns with bounty - Brian Ballsun-Stanton | I dreamed of space
an upward fall from orbit
on gossamer thread. - deadgenome | Imagination
of potential unrealized
elevates our souls. - Adam Smith | Tethered to our earth
A ribbon to span the sky
Founders of a way - Joshua Lopez | Freedom to exist
When and where we please to be
Our dreams set us free - Joe Mitchell | To the stars we must
Go. Fuel is costly, so use
the elevator. - Michael Murray | is this lift broken?
everything is getting small
i wanted floor five - Sam | ride the nanotube
beanstalk out of earth's deep well:
touch both moon and stars - Marcia Barrett Nice | A visionary
Climber of the blue expanse
A ride beyond the sky - Joshua Lopez | A lift to space made
of tiny carbon tubes. We
surely must be mad. - Michael Murray | smell of salt water, still seas and bright summer sky:
space elevator - Marcia Barrett Nice | To get into space
The carbon nanotube way
Knit them together - David Filmer |
And now for the Limericks:
There once was a group from Seattle
Who felt in their bones a rattle
To get off the planet
They really must jam it
And not just the old fannish prattle. - Marcia Barrrett Nice | When we thought we would not reach the top, And our progress as people would stop, Just a stone on a rope Gave a whole planet hope: "Hey, it's Us! The new kids on the block!" - Kelley Johnston | | A transport to inner space What a most desired place Can’t you just see their face When the lift goes there and back A return from a sky so black What a place, what a record case - Joshua Lopez | There was a man from Perth
Who had been gazing the stars since birth
He said See you Later
Took the space elevator
And never came back to earth - Jonas Soderstrom | A member of the human race,
Who had travelled all over the place,
Was now quite bored, with all currently explored,
So went up in a lift into space. - deadgenome | CNTs give us all a fine chance,
To join in the great Cosmic Dance,
'Tween the Moon and the stars
In railway cars,
Giving space a new kind of romance. | There once was Liftport, the Group
with cables so high you'll just whoop
with cars hooked in sockets
there's no need for rockets
but, gads, don't look down or you'll poop. - Mark Benvenuto | There was a young lady named Pope Who climbed up into space on a rope. That's not the best thing to do, Said a LiftPort Guru. Our Lift will be quicker, we hope! - David Filmer | If you want to get into space,
Without Kerosene/Oxygen waste,
The best way to go
Is Electrically, so,
Get yourself down to our place! | Birth of the Space Elevator There once was a man named Mike Laine Who some people thought was insane. But he showed them the light Of a way to new flight Thus the space elevator's explained. - Donna Dunbar |
And as poet's are indeed free thinkers, here's two more entries: Liftport has the idea, to the sky they will go Money, the big issue, soon will flow And a cable will be strung from the Earth with care In hopes big business will pay the fare And other ideas, I hope, are not lost Like mine, to use this as an exhaust Put a big pipe up over the pole From which bad gases will start to roll Worth a fortune you say? O yes this is true The savior of the Earth, Red, White and Blue The temperature will cool, a few degree As others pay fortunes on bended knee And with the climate we can make sport All from the doings of Liftport - Jeff Lane Lifter, Lifter, In The Sky
Lifter, lifter, in the sky
How is it you climb so high
Up above the clouds you go
Power beamed up from below
Lifter, lifter, in the sky
How is it you climb so high
Climbing slowly to the stars
Bringing Earthlings from afar
Holding goodies big and small
Opening space for us all
Lifter, lifter, in the sky
How is it you climb so high
Clinging tightly to the ribbon
Made of nanotubes of carbon
On your top is a counterweight
Down below is the LiftPort gate
Lifter, lifter, in the sky
How is it you climb so high - Darnell Clayton Thanks again to everyone who participated. |
