APOLLO

By Indrani Ananda

Thu, 09 Aug 2012
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ONE day the moon will not be wild
or SMALL and seeming very far away;
for any STEP we take, the distant door
gets closer FOR our feet to tread one day;
bright silver of A many-cratered world
where never any MAN has stood before.

ONE night the moon will be a home
as GIANT spires above fair cities rise;
a lofty LEAP onto a smaller sphere -
an archway FOR past centuries to guide
the pathways of MANKIND through darker skies.

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EVERYTHING OVER THE SUN
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Comments

Submitted by Linda Wigzell Cress on
This is not only clever but beautifully written Indrani. Took me back to the night of the moon landing when I was a atudent and David Bowie was Ziggy Stardust! Linda

Linda

Submitted by Indrani Ananda on
Indrani Ananda Thanks for reading this, Linda. One of my earlier poems, Apollo 11, I wrote when the moon landings took place. What a different world it was then, eh? This time it feels strangely out of synch. that Neil died just two and a half weeks after I posted it. Indrani.

Indrani Ananda

Submitted by Linda Wigzell Cress on
Weird Indrani, and I am part way through a series of stories which will include an account of what I was doing on the moon landing night in 1969! Linda

Linda