Now Playing–Apollo 11

Saved my tears
for the very end–
safe splashdown.

#NaPoWriMo, Day 6

First steps

It clears the tower

It clears the tower,
and we watch it go, ribbon
waving at its feet.

Crescent Home

You’ve only been away a week

and yet you stare
at the terminator
on your crescent home

and a shadow falls
over a place
you know.

Tranquility

Sleep
is on the schedule,
but the moon dust
is bright as a city
outside the window,
and your childhood stars
have been erased.

So you wait out
the rest period
in the one good spot
on the floor
with your eyes open

and let peace tuck in
under blankets
240,000 miles away.

 

In awe we watched the moon-bound go

Spectators on a Florida beach await the launch of Apollo 11.

keep looking back

This year marks the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission. Apollo 11 launched July 16, 1969 and landed on the Moon on July 20.  Pictured here the Saturn V rocket that launched Apollo 11 to the Moon and a cut-out image of Aldrin on the Moon. (Images credit: NASA)