tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123210925491656849.post1321822520701500431..comments2023-10-21T03:37:12.934-04:00Comments on Science Museum of Virginia: Thoughts on Virginia’s Goodwill Moon RockScience Museum of Virginiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10158936666227453623noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123210925491656849.post-40514211173736478802010-09-15T16:02:09.078-04:002010-09-15T16:02:09.078-04:00ALSEP
With all the world waiting
We turned our ey...ALSEP<br /><br />With all the world waiting<br />We turned our eyes skyward.<br />Remember that day when we all looked through<br />Our electric windows on the universe,<br />Seeing old spheres from a new point of view?<br /><br />Three times again, and again, and again,<br />Descending on dancing flames,<br />They scurried, slow – motion through ancient dust.<br />Who still now remembers their names?<br /><br />We did the unthinkable, achieved the impossible,<br />Went where none had preceded, and more.<br />“Ho-hum! Another launch, you say?<br />Is football on Channel Four”?<br /><br />Mechanical colonists left behind<br />When we blasted back home in our ships<br />Drew life in their bellies from shattering atoms,<br />Energizing electronic chips.<br /><br />They sensed the heat of ancient fires,<br />Moon embers banked deep inside.<br />They felt the star-bits streaming,<br />And the rumbling silent tide.<br /><br />ALSEP voices, talking to Earth<br />In chattering bits and bytes,<br />Sent their colonial treasures back<br />Through the lunar days and nights.<br /><br />They measured the limb-shocked solar winds<br />Changing the charges in sputtered lands,<br />And vibrating signals crossed the void,<br />Twitching inked fingers on metal hands.<br /><br />The footprints and tire-tracks, unchanging, remain.<br />Like paths to the future they glisten.<br />Solipsistic sentinels converse with themselves,<br />But there’s nobody now who can listen.George Hastingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06940785782807865216noreply@blogger.com