Starship Asterisk*

orin stepanek wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2020 4:05 pm I took my spaceship and flew up high;
I wanted to know, what was up in the sky!

When I got up there, I followed a Star;
At first I figured, It's not very far!

The Star I followed was a huge planet;
I wondered if my spaceship could man it!

I landed my ship on the planets crust;
On this strange world was nothing but dust!

I looked and I found no food I could eat;
My bones can be found, without any meat!

So if want to know what is up in the sky;
And go way up there, like me you will die! - Orin D. Stepanek, 1957

Cousin Ricky wrote: ↑Mon Sep 07, 2020 4:15 pm

neufer wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2020 5:18 pm It is certainly "affecting my emotions or affections, moving, stirring."

(I would even go as far as to say that you were pretty pathetic "back in the day.")

https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=pathetic wrote:
<<pathetic (adj.) 1590s, "affecting the emotions or affections, moving, stirring" (now obsolete in this broad sense), from Middle French pathétique "moving, stirring, affecting" (16c.), from Late Latin patheticus, from Greek pathetikos "subject to feeling, sensitive, capable of emotion," from pathetos "liable to suffer," verbal adjective of pathein "to suffer". The specific meaning "arousing pity, sorrow, or grief" or other tender feelings is from 1737. The colloquial sense of "so miserable as to be ridiculous" is attested by 1937.>>

Here’s a pathetic adagio that would make good background music for the poetry reading.

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

Ludwig von Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 8, Opus 13 (Sonata Pathétique), 2nd movement.

neufer wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2020 5:18 pm It is certainly "affecting my emotions or affections, moving, stirring."

(I would even go as far as to say that you were pretty pathetic "back in the day.")

https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=pathetic wrote:
<<pathetic (adj.) 1590s, "affecting the emotions or affections, moving, stirring" (now obsolete in this broad sense), from Middle French pathétique "moving, stirring, affecting" (16c.), from Late Latin patheticus, from Greek pathetikos "subject to feeling, sensitive, capable of emotion," from pathetos "liable to suffer," verbal adjective of pathein "to suffer". The specific meaning "arousing pity, sorrow, or grief" or other tender feelings is from 1737. The colloquial sense of "so miserable as to be ridiculous" is attested by 1937.>>

neufer wrote: ↑Mon Sep 07, 2020 3:36 am

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

orin stepanek wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2020 12:35 pm

Aww! The best I could do was a square picture!

I could tip it; but that didn't look right!

orin stepanek wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2020 12:35 pm

Aww! The best I could do was a square picture!

I could tip it; but that didn't look right!

Chris Peterson wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2020 10:09 pm

orin stepanek wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2020 12:35 pm Aww! The best I could do was a square picture!

I could tip it; but that didn't look right!

All you need is the special magic filter that knows what was outside the camera frame.
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Falcon9MoonKatieDarby-ls.jpg

orin stepanek wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2020 12:35 pm Aww! The best I could do was a square picture! :p:

I could tip it; but that didn't look right! :p:

Ann wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2020 5:19 pm

orin stepanek wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2020 4:05 pm I took my spaceship and flew up high;
I wanted to know, what was up in the sky!

When I got up there, I followed a Star;
At first I figured, It's not very far!

The Star I followed was a huge planet;
I wondered if my spaceship could man it!

I landed my ship on the planets crust;
On this strange world was nothing but dust!

I looked and I found no food I could eat;
My bones can be found, without any meat!

So if want to know what is up in the sky;
And go way up there, like me you will die! - Orin D. Stepanek, 1957

I wrote this poem when I was a Jr. in High School! I was pretty poetic back in the day

Thank you for sharing this poem that you wrote in your youth, Orin!

Ann

neufer wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2020 5:18 pm It is certainly "affecting my emotions or affections, moving, stirring."

(I would even go as far as to say that you were pretty pathetic "back in the day.")

https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=pathetic wrote:
<<pathetic (adj.) 1590s, "affecting the emotions or affections, moving, stirring" (now obsolete in this broad sense), from Middle French pathétique "moving, stirring, affecting" (16c.), from Late Latin patheticus, from Greek pathetikos "subject to feeling, sensitive, capable of emotion," from pathetos "liable to suffer," verbal adjective of pathein "to suffer". The specific meaning "arousing pity, sorrow, or grief" or other tender feelings is from 1737. The colloquial sense of "so miserable as to be ridiculous" is attested by 1937.>>

orin stepanek wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2020 4:05 pm I took my spaceship and flew up high;
I wanted to know, what was up in the sky!

When I got up there, I followed a Star;
At first I figured, It's not very far!

The Star I followed was a huge planet;
I wondered if my spaceship could man it!

I landed my ship on the planets crust;
On this strange world was nothing but dust!

I looked and I found no food I could eat;
My bones can be found, without any meat!

So if want to know what is up in the sky;
And go way up there, like me you will die! - Orin D. Stepanek, 1957

I wrote this poem when I was a Jr. in High School! I was pretty poetic back in the day

orin stepanek wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2020 4:05 pm
I took my spaceship and flew up high;
I wanted to know, what was up in the sky!

When I got up there, I followed a Star;
At first I figured, It's not very far!

The Star I followed was a huge planet;
I wondered if my spaceship could man it!

I landed my ship on the planets crust;
On this strange world was nothing but dust!

I looked and I found no food I could eat;
My bones can be found, without any meat!

So if want to know what is up in the sky;
And go way up there, like me you will die! - Orin D. Stepanek, 1957

I wrote this poem when I was a Jr. in High School! I was pretty poetic back in the day

https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=pathetic wrote:
<<pathetic (adj.) 1590s, "affecting the emotions or affections, moving, stirring" (now obsolete in this broad sense), from Middle French pathétique "moving, stirring, affecting" (16c.), from Late Latin patheticus, from Greek pathetikos "subject to feeling, sensitive, capable of emotion," from pathetos "liable to suffer," verbal adjective of pathein "to suffer". The specific meaning "arousing pity, sorrow, or grief" or other tender feelings is from 1737. The colloquial sense of "so miserable as to be ridiculous" is attested by 1937.>>

Cousin Ricky wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2020 2:29 pm

orin stepanek wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2020 12:35 pm Aww! The best I could do was a square picture!


I could tip it; but that didn't look right! Falcon9MoonKatieDarby1200.jpg

I was about to suggest tipping it, because in space there is no up or down. Maybe tipping it the other way will look better?

orin stepanek wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2020 12:35 pm Aww! The best I could do was a square picture!


I could tip it; but that didn't look right! Falcon9MoonKatieDarby1200.jpg