Saturday, 11 April 2026

The Sunday Whirl


 the space shuttle didn't crash
but slipped seamlessly into the 
calm and glass like ocean on the landing day
the astronauts found to be  not rattled without a flicker of fear
pleased to be home


the lurking news corp ravenous for information
with the usual hollow rhetoric
not known to be ever red with shame 
filling in time
Wonder what the man in the moon thinks about all of this?

4 comments:

  1. He's probably disgusted. I know I am. We just have to stick our noses everywhere.

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  2. I wonder too. Read a lovely thing once where a man from Africa didn't see a man in the moon, he saw a woman with a baby on her back.

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  3. I should say that that was a good use of the words. In the end I piked out and found no use for ravenous and crash but was happy with where I ended up. Even if a lot of tissues died for the cause.

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  4. Good use of the prompts!!

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