A SPACE POEM TO RETURN TO LUNA

[moonunit]

SOMEWHERE ON LUNA<br /><br /><br />When you reach out to touch...<br />Who is there to feel your body?<br />When you reach out to understand...<br />Who is there to heal your mind?<br />Who gives the answers when our minds question why?<br /><br />I’ll be here...I’ll be there...<br />I’ll be with you in the great SOMEWHERE<br /><br />When you look up in the sky at night...<br />Do you realize that each star is a sun?<br />With other planets and other moons...<br />These flickers of light, deep in the night...<br />They might just be playing our tunes.<br />These planets in the heavens continue to circle their sun,<br />Like Earth in our galaxy but light years ahead...<br />Their play may have already begun.<br /><br />Yet as we stand on our Earth with a shuttle fleet on the ground,<br />We can soar back to our moon...feeling the power of manmade thrust as the planet echoes with sound.<br /><br />Meanwhile, way up above, on the surface of Luna...our moon with a name...<br />Apollo, it seems, has left behind the undisturbed footprints of 12 American men who left the Earth for the moon and returned home as heroes...<br />Such was America’s reward for Apollo’s fame.<br /><br />The Apollo program gives testament that living on the moon is possible...<br />So we must return again to stay.<br />Remember, some said that we were lunatics in the 1960’s for choosing the path of going to the moon...but did we achieve our goal too soon?<br /><br />A new generation is now in desperate need of a new goal to fulfill their role.<br />For every small step we take in space and modern day life will forever be with our “one giant leap” in mind to guide us. Not divide us.<br /><br />So as the world works together to complete a new Space Station powered by the sun...<br />In reality, a new space race has already begun...<br />Somewhere on Luna and onward to Mars...mankind must continue its journey with help from the stars!<br /><br />Daniel Wingsand Reed<br />June 3, 2005<br /><br />

 

[mattblack]

Pretty cool, Daniel. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p>One Percent of Federal Funding For Space: America <strong><em><u>CAN</u></em></strong> Afford it!!  LEO is a <strong><em>Prison</em></strong> -- It's time for a <em><strong>JAILBREAK</strong></em>!!</p> </div>

 

[alokmohan]

You cant talk to lover as sound does not travel in vacuum.None to hear your poems,sorry.

 

[moonunit]

Ask one of the 10 surviving Apollo astronauts if we can communicate from Luna to the Earth....I think he would say...Hell yes...Lets send another generation back to Luna before we all get too old.<br /><br />Moonunit

 

[moonunit]

Welcome, the Inn Space Place<br />Welcome, the deep space race<br />To one and all, to large and small<br />Welcome, to the pioneers of a new space and time<br />Welcome, to this story of reality and rhyme<br /><br />The reality began on a late sixties date<br />It was here that we sat; it is here that we wait<br />On a pad, by the sea<br />In a space, in a place called Cape Kennedy<br />Atop the Saturn, atop the Five<br />To the moon and back, the pioneers survived<br />Waiting and counting, hoping to see <br />The new Space Inn, a place to be<br /><br />Welcome, the Inn Space Place<br />I hear the station is new, I hear the people are true<br />Hope to see it soon, you know, Tranquility Base, the moon!<br />Houston, can you copy, can you hear?<br />It's really lonely out in the blue<br />Well, it's not that blue when the sky turns black<br />It's only a three day ride (and a free ride back)<br /><br />This story took place not so long ago<br />Can you remember the story, can you recall the show?<br />They called it Mercury, Gemini, and Project Apollo<br />They brought true a dream in a time of tomorrow<br />But where did they go? Apollo 18, 19, and 20<br />We achieved our goal so they took our money...<br /><br />They took our money, but not our suits<br />They took our rover, but not our boots<br />We still have the rocks, we left behind the prints<br />We still have the money, we still have the mints<br />So Washington, please print some soon<br />Please, Mr. Politician, have you ever FELT the moon?<br /><br />Welcome, the Inn Space Place<br />Welcome, the deep space race<br />The deep space race is about to begin<br />And we know in our hearts why we must win<br />From Mars or the Moon, from Jupiter or Pluto’s moon,Charon<br />Wherever we land, hand in hand, woman and man...<br /><br />There's a place for us <br />There is a place...SOMEWHERE in space...<br /><br />Daniel WIngsand Reed<br />June 7, 2005

 

[toymaker]

I would rather fund scientific missions.

 

[moonunit]

And we will spend another 35 years wasting our time without the human experience. Our 10 remaining Apollo moonwalkers are getting old. Without vision there will be no human exploration...only Hollywood movies. Such a shame that President Kennedy's legacy is dying with each generation that believes the way you do. Kennedy challenged us in 1961 and we achieved our goal in 1969. Now it takes 9 years to waste money on a robotic concept. Let's unite our planet and give a woman a chance to walk on the moon!<br /><br />Daniel Wingsand Reed<br />June 10, 2005

 

[shuttle_rtf]

Roses are red,<br />Violets are blue,<br />Shuttles are great,<br />But can't go to the moon <img src="/images/icons/frown.gif" /> <br /><br /><img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" />

 

[mrmorris]

We once sent some men to Tranquility,<br />To teach Cold War foes some humility<br />But once we got there,<br />The budget went bare,<br />And we proceded to trash that ability.

 

[blairf]

Martians are red<br />Terrans are blue<br />Folk from Uranus<br />are a shade of poo<br /><br />(sorry ........ gets up and leaves)

 

[lunatic133]

Very nice work! I'm no poetry conneseur (sp?) but I like the message!<br /><br />And Alokmohan, you're read the poem over the radio unit in your space suit, silly <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /><br /><br />Everyone else ... you're hilarious. But Daniel's original poem was quite good!

 

[moonunit]

I'm quite serious about my poetry and an American Lunar project...........If I ever get into the public eye I hope to attract attention back to our space program and away from these "reality shows"....we must give our youth an attainable goal in space and define a way for the general public to get into space....WE'RE WASTING PRECIOUS TIME AND MONEY with the amount of corporate greed and the entertainment industry's lack of vision to inspire a return to Luna..<br /><br />Here's another space poem that I sent out to the Whitehouse, TV and newspapers trying to plant a seed in the minds of those who have the power to sway public opinion:<br /><br /><br />DO LEADERS CHOOSE OR CHOOSE TO LEAD?-<br /><br />We once became leaders and shot to the moon<br />With each shot in time came reason and rhyme fulfilling a devotion in 1969....<br />and then we boldly explored this place that was new, we landed in the mountains and drove inside its craters until 1972 <br />Daring and challenging, evoking American Spirits to rise up together...<br />and leave behind a path of glory to the moon for future generations to follow forever<br /><br />Yet sadly, as Space Shuttle Endeavour may circle the Earth...<br />For what it's worth<br />Our forever path of glory to the moon may soon also be made in China<br />Without an American lunar project and a plan of our own<br />Those 6 American moon bases that we left behind may no longer be called home<br /><br />If we choose to lead again...<br />We must do so with added vigor, direction and a common sense plan<br />For our youth desperately need a sense of purpose<br />and a moon called Luna may yet turn out to be their promised land.<br /><br />Daniel Wingsand Reed<br />2003

 

[moonunit]

LUNA: A FACE FOR OUR MOON<br /><br />The face on the moon spoke to me one day<br />Up in the sky.........far, far away<br />Come visit me my son, come fly away soon<br />Leap back now through time, won't you please soar again to the moon <br /><br />This journey took place by humans you see<br />So the face in the moon means more now to me<br />Because we've seen her true face,<br />We've left behind our tracks with footprints on her plain <br />Isn't it time that we return to our Luna to reclaim our domain?<br /><br /> Daniel Wingsand Reed<br /> August 1998<br />