Thanks Patrick. I need a rhyming couplet however to round off this sort of
Skakey sonnet style.
Bill
On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 at 9:41 pm, Patrick McManus <
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> cheers Bill I would quite to end with the line
>
> The flagpole lists - light and dark will not merge.
>
> On 30/07/2019 23:33, Bill Wootton wrote:
> > Reaching the moon seemed inevitable.
> >
> > Like growing up. Never been there before
> >
> > but no reason to think it a fable.
> >
> > So how did ‘Never cease’ become ‘Shut the door’?
> >
> >
> > Grounded on the plateau of adulthood,
> >
> > where did it go, that impulse for take-offs?
> >
> > You’d think we’d reach for the stars while we could
> >
> > but our systems shut down like stifled coughs.
> >
> >
> > We sputter into being, look around,
> >
> > experiment, accept, reject and surge.
> >
> > Then lose that looseness; once gone, never found
> >
> > The flagpole lists - light and dark will not merge.
> >
> >
> > Armstrong’s dry footprint in moondust still lies
> >
> > Who the hell knows just what it signifies.
> >
> >
> >
> > Alternative closing couplet:
> >
> >
> > That’s one small step, announced Armstrong back then.
> >
> > Mr Withers in class: Now back to page ten.
> >
> >
> > bw
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