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erniet's avatar

Freed from gravity

The bonds of mass now broken

Ranging unrestrained

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Honeygloom's avatar

You make it sound so fulfilling! I love this take🖤

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erniet's avatar

Free the planets!

Gravity is bondage!

Free fall for all!

😂

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Honeygloom's avatar

Oh, you know, maybe not ALL the planets😬😂

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erniet's avatar

😂🤣😂🤣

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Theresa Greene's avatar

Black-hearted pirate

Shows up again to ghost me

Get lost, vagabond!

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Honeygloom's avatar

Ooo scary! Like a galactic stalker🖤

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Jason McBride's avatar

flung off into space,

wandering the galaxy

searching for new sun

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Honeygloom's avatar

I love this! I can see it as a cute story for a children’s book🖤

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A.P. Murphy's avatar

What if a roaming star and planet

met up? Would they marry there

in deepest space, or part to be lone forever?

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Honeygloom's avatar

Aw 🥹 They could start a little galaxy of their own….

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Richard Blaisdell's avatar

Gravity grave yard

Rogue planet taker

Big bully behemoth

Let the worlds decide.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Oh nice take! Like a big, greedy planet snatcher. Very cool🖤

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Hanna Delaney's avatar

The rogue planet gives me serious Star Trek TNG vibes. That episode where he lives a whole life on a dying planet still cuts me up.

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Honeygloom's avatar

🫣 I have… never seen a single episode of Star Trek.

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Hanna Delaney's avatar

Nooooo. The next generation is pretty good. I also loved Voyager and Deep space nine. Can take or leave the rest.

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Honeygloom's avatar

I went on a Star Trek ride in Vegas once, maybe that counts? They had a museum and we ate at the restaurant. All the staff was in costume… I had no idea what was going on😂

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

Quork’s Bar.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Oh yes! My friends kept trying to get me to ask someone to rub their ears. Lucky for me I was suspicious of their motives and wouldn’t do it 😂 As I later learned that would be… awkward🫣

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

Exactly! ROFL! 🤣😂😜😘

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

WHAT?!? I am a serious diehard Trekker!

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Chris J. Franklin's avatar

Are they just roaming,

Or are they on the run, and,

Trying to escape...? 😎

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Honeygloom's avatar

Planets up to no good? Hunted for being outsiders? So many possibilities! I love this!

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Chris J. Franklin's avatar

Thanks! It's definitely fun to think they could be travelling with a purpose. Even if they're just fleeing climate change! Haha... 😎

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

This is a short story.

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Chris J. Franklin's avatar

It does seem like there's more going on around this one. But that's the great thing about using prompts like this. You never know where they're going to lead... 😎

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Songsterfunsterhamster's avatar

Shown the door cosmic,

I roam, weaving between suns,

A galactic drunk

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Honeygloom's avatar

Ooo nice! I love the syntax and wording you chose for the first line in particular🖤

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

︀︀︀︀︀︀︀︀︀︀︀︀︀︀︀︀︀︀︀ʇǝu︎ɐld︎ ǝn︎ƃo︎ɹ︀︀︀︀︀: ʇ ︀︀︀︀d︎ɯ:︀︀o︎ɹ d︎

Senryū:

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   Rogue planet dating app

   "Seeks stable star system

   For long-term orbit"

𒀮

   Astronomer sighs

   Another rogue planet found

   Still can't find his keys

𒀯

   Child's crayon drawing

   A family of planets

   One colored black: "Me"

𐬾

   Rogue planet therapy

   "Tell me about your childhood.

   No sun? I see, I see."

𐬽

   Alien tourists

   Take selfies with Earth, caption:

   "Cute lil' rogue planet!"

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   Cosmic real estate

   "Charming fixer-upper world,

   Bring your own starlight!"

   Rogue planet memoir

   "How I Learned to Stop Worrying

   And Love the Void"

   Planet support group

   "Hi, I'm Jupiter, and I'm

   A rogue planet too"

   Interstellar DJ

   Spins rogue planets like vinyl

   Cosmic scratching sounds

✫彡

    Philosophy class

    "If a rogue planet exists

    With no one to see...

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Chris J. Franklin's avatar

These are amazing! They're incredibly fun and very creative... 😎

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

I like to think outside the box. 📦

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Chris J. Franklin's avatar

I try to do that, too. It's always especially fun when you can get something a bit unusual and unexpected to grow out of these prompts... 😎

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