#voyager
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Specks in the Sun
No sleep till Mars
Message to solar fibrils
Planetary forces
Gravitational pull
Keplerian orbit
Advancing red dot against the black
A shift in Saturn
Towards discovery
Across collapsed rings
No sleep ever again
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Feb 1
Feb 1, 2026 at 7:52 PM UTC
Words by Elizabeth Hensley
To The Tune of Voyager's Theme Song
Space is vast...
Praise the Lord!
The Lord of Hosts!
Come with us!
Come with us!
Come with us!
Come with us!
Come with us!
Come with us through the majesty of Space
We're triumphant now!
And we're free,
Of Prejudice
and gravity!
Higher and farther, and farther and higher!
Higher and farther and farther still!
Oh...
Through the vast, eternal realms of Space
We're triumphant now!
Triumphant now!
And free!
Let's soar
....Free
Ohhhhhhhh
Come let’s go see what's there!
Jan 17
Jan 17, 2026 at 10:48 AM UTC
Who wants to have success?
I want anonymity
I don’t deserve identity
Not sure of my proximity
Darkness is our imagery
Dark like our duality
Fittingly in our tranquility
There’s no hotel or casino
Who wants to be an anemone
Living in the sea
Being pretty and predatory
But I’m searching for space to grieve
Over my own wickedness believe
If I could just rest on the constellation Libra
I’d do it in a whimper enjoying her
I just scratched a love note on Voyager.
The Bard gets fidgety
When he’s out of whiskey
No girls to get frisky
My words a bit risky
Wish I was tipsy
Maybe get a bit crispy
When my nifty fingers
Linger too long in the stars
Deep space flight
Where it feels like night
So far away from life
Only specks of light
Splashing in your eyes
Deep space flight
Where it feels like night
So far away from life
Far away from light
You’d not believe your eyes
You’d not believe your eyes!
One light year
Is a very long distance
Far away from existence
Why am I always running away?
One light year
I’d love a light beer
Coors or Bud Light yeah
It’s ‘cause you’re too afraid to say
You’re a coward
Your milky ways soured
You’ve got no power
That’s why you need me
Lord of the words
Prince of the verse
In your ears like a canard
Yeah me the Bard.
You know I’ll carve
Words of love onto the probe
I’d rather you starve
Than write a sonnet so blue
Leave me alone Bard
I was alright without you
I want anonymity
I don’t deserve identity
Not sure of my proximity
Darkness is our imagery
Fittingly in our tranquility
Im fed up of duality.
Nov 16, 2025
Nov 16, 2025 at 8:55 AM UTC
He sails in his day dreams as the foaming crest crashes stars on the shore of his mind, whilst resting his gaze upon the lanterns of the night sky that are brightly akin to the songs untold by his lips, the quivering murmurs in the cosmos are in motion with poetry, thoughts, jazz and coffee, in the place of his solace, darkness is only the prelude to the arrival of the rising sun on the roses softer than velvet and the voyager.
Jun 27, 2024
Jun 27, 2024 at 7:50 PM UTC
Aircraft blazin' fuel
Aboon, "done-with's" grave floods sight,
A calm midnight rain,
The mind racing. Why
Must the nurtured be blind eye
Wilie McTell? Pain.
The mind racing, on
A smile,
Lonesome star in opaque
Darkness, Freedom
From label. Freedom
From responsibility.
Freedom from action,
Is this noble,
Or a jester's play in chess?
Oh, must I turn my fist to face aloft,
Straighten my clenched fingers, present you
Burning embers of admiration, that for so long
Have been stitched into my palm,
Gifted from a passive voyager afar,
Weary, to announce affection,
For a grasp can only
Last as long as
Two hands want to clasp.
What is on your mind?
Aircraft blazin' fuel
Aboon, "done-with's" grave floods sight,
A calm midnight rain.
A chance to breathe.
Be my Sheppard.
Lead
Me to pastures of serenity
To graze in, until my eternal slumber.
That's where I want to be.
Sep 20, 2023
Sep 20, 2023 at 12:22 AM UTC
Bitcoin’s easy if you try
So simple now - I’ll tell you why
It’s not complex - oh contraire
You can buy it anywhere
Cash App makes it really slick
And others too - just take your pick
Venmo’s fast, try both - compare
You can buy it anywhere
PayPal offers Bitcoin buys
Get some while you order fries
Buy on Coinbase from your chair
You can buy it anywhere
Use Voyager - or Gemini
Buy it low or buy it high
So many options, I declare
You can buy it anywhere
Use Crypto.com, or FTX
Buying bitcoin is better than… a kiss
Do it quietly, or with fanfare
Just buy your bitcoin anywhere
Binance, Celsius, or just use Strike
Buy bitcoin (safely) on your bike
Think for yourself, and stay aware
You can buy bitcoin anywhere
May 9, 2022
May 9, 2022 at 11:19 AM UTC
Trying to learn, while I learn to fail
Not to be fixated now that I have set the sail
Towards a wiser me, maybe a brighter me
Decided to travel through the travesties,
Only to enlighten me.
All I was hoping for was an illusion,
Was it an illusion of my creation?
Maybe nothing but just a delusion,
Maybe I'll get through it, hoping for an end
Never realized how I was missing the point,
When I let my laughter suspend.
They say it is all about the journey and not the destination,
I always figured they didn't understand my situation
What's the worse that can happen, they ask
Well, I may come short of the handed task.
Is it all in the process, I wonder
Is pondering about the end game always a blunder
Weren't we all meant to get somewhere, achieve our goals?
Or are we always trying to fill a hole,
A hole without which we can't be whole,
A part of us, this hole so wide,
It can make you do the unthinkable,
A hole of the unknown in our very own little fable.
I'm always at war to figure out the answer,
Maybe the quest in itself is a paradox,
Maybe I'd be better off figuring out the way
To love the journey and finally think outside the box.
The answer had always been in front of my eyes,
I couldn't unwrap myself from all the lies
The untold truth of what we were supposed to be,
Not finding the hidden treasure but being the voyagers of the sea,
For the treasure is what you see,
When you become better than what you were meant to be.
Just a little older, just a little wiser
Now understanding that I was always a miser
Holding onto my darkness and never letting go,
Now I'm making memories that I can never blow.
The destination had always been on my mind,
Always right in front of my eyes,
I was clouded, I was stranded
The rewards always seemed nice
But walking when I was supposed to run
Made me comprehend that the journey is what is fun!
Jun 7, 2020
Jun 7, 2020 at 10:11 AM UTC
We watch from space
Safe in our spaceship
As a small rock planet,
That has orbited it’s star
Over seven and a half billion times –
All those billions of its years –
Is peeled away
And eaten
By that very sun
That gave it birth.
Two and a half billion years before,
This star ran dry of hydrogen
And grew
From yellow dwarf to red giant.
Now, nothing is left of three of its worlds,
All engulfed by flame
As the sun grew
Into a giant ball of death.
All history is gone.
Nothing to show
For countless civilisations
That adorned the third planet.
But oh what’s this?
We spot a tiny spacecraft!
Must reel it in.
Examine it.
It has a name:
“Voyager 1”
Inside: a Golden Disc!
A Golden Record.
We can play it.
Images of hairless bipeds.
Ancestors from that third planet.
Sounds of animals and someone laughing.
Images of bipeds taking sustenance.
And best of all
More sounds
Of something called “Rock Music”:
A being called “Chuck Berry”
“Singing a song” called “Johnny B. Goode”.
For we have feet too
And it makes them tap.
Paul Butters
© PB 12\12\2019.
Dec 12, 2019
Dec 12, 2019 at 2:02 PM UTC
I am a traveler ;
traveling the galaxies.
I am a voyager ;
voyaging a million miles to you.
I am a traveler ;
traveling the impossibilities.
I am a voyager ;
voyaging the unbearable journey
of loving me too.
Jan 21, 2019
Jan 21, 2019 at 9:02 AM UTC
The earth is shaking and fire everywhere
the wind sounds like a trumpet in the air
words from the mountain ablaze in the stone
now lay in pieces with rubble and bone
forever adrift in the veiled black space
the golden record whats left of this place
Dec 27, 2018
Dec 27, 2018 at 12:54 PM UTC
we all fear relationship,
a sunken feeling,
when attachment
weighs you
down.
you fear it would not sail,
with the anchors of
past memories
holding this journey.
when it does sail one day,
I want to sing to
the song of the sea;
the sea of love.
with a voyager
who knows how
to navigate my
rocky emotions;
waves of anxiety
and leads me to
where our future lies.
May 29, 2018
May 29, 2018 at 11:25 AM UTC
The afternoon heat hung like a rising fever.
The old iron gates of the school yard wait to swing.
My feet planted near the outskirts.
Sweeping the sticky hair from my face,
alone I wait.
Chocolate melted in my pocket.
Minutes turn to hours.
A gallery of photographs has passed me by.
Panic snickers, searching for your face.
The waiting, the patience,
feeling more like a punch, than a verb.
The chocolate now a sticky ink, staining my pants.
I feel a voyager aboard a lost ship, floating,
hoping for shore.
Sudden without warning,
you grace my sight,
slow motion, near the gate door.
In one swing, you're here.
The wait long forgot,
hung on your beautiful stare.
Mar 6, 2018
Mar 6, 2018 at 8:49 PM UTC
Through the sea of flames
I pursue to fulfill this
shadow quest of mine,
governing my ark
recklessly against the winds
of mauling doubts, toward you.
May 24, 2017
May 24, 2017 at 4:18 PM UTC
My mind, an ocean of thoughts
You, a voyager, courageous and patient
May 5, 2017
May 5, 2017 at 2:33 PM UTC
particles, surging in bubbles
in a great barrier
between the space we know
and what we know only to call space
The faint whispers of humanity
cannot be heard from here
not even the light
of the only star we know
the sun we love
can be seen
the voyager continues on its collision course
with mystery and unknown
and breaks through the barrier
because it cannot divert
and enters deep space
Jan 22, 2015
Jan 22, 2015 at 6:39 PM UTC