The Cosmonauts Voyage Comments

......I loved this....I read this masterpiece several times....and found myself wishing he could safely return back to earth....cosmonauts must be fearless to go into space...yet for the human race to survive they must go....and find us another home....cause our world will some day run out of resources to substain a population of 7 billion and counting...

Before I scrolled down and saw your POET'S NOTES I concluded these were the last thoughts of a cosmonaut out of oxygen. I didn't see on a space walk in a suit but in a dying spaceship. Your scenario has more resonance. What struck is his lack of panic, in fact he is calm as he faces eternity without fear. Bravo! That's the way it should be, but this cosmonaut is something of a poet and he sees himself perhaps partially in another dimension because of his space journey. This is a visionary view of space travel and I applaud you for creating a spiritual rather than mechanistic context for it. Too much SF just transfers our species's violence into space whereas we should see the experience of space as transformative, even without the ETs of 2001. Getting back to your poem, I found the dying man's remembrance of his wife or girlfriend quite moving, and once again his lack of panic is an inspired characterization.

Sublime grace is dwelling in poem with beautiful imagery. Specially flown from heart. Powerful wording makes this special and pleasing on reading. Nice poem.