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One more to write. (Hopefully Friday!) |
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Abe Senior Member
since 2003-05-28
Posts 694Looks like Vero Beach, FL until the end! 
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TWENTY FOUR AND COUNTING There’s seven more Heroes Added to that legacy Of space flight and travel From the Cape of Kennedy. An almost perfect Mission Of the scientific kind With a myriad of experiments Meant, to better humankind. Two Ladies and five Men Plus thousands on the ground Excited about their return As they were homeward bound. Only minutes left, to complete Another page of history Only to leave us, with questions Of yet, another tragedy. Sadly, we all forget About the dangers of each Flight We take it all for granted When, everything goes right. But, we’ll keep on going on For it’s in, the Nature of Man To not let the setbacks Change, the goal of the Plan. Through lives ended, prematurely By what, some Greater Power willed They left their mark upon this Earth With some dreams, they have fulfilled. Now, they’re with that growing Crew Who fly around in Heaven Another group, who we should call "The Magnificent Seven". 02-02-2003 Del "Abe" Jones DON'T CHALLENG'ER (Written after watching Her pass over Orlando for first landing at Cape. Also saw Her first launch, live. Published in Winter Park newspaper in 80s) Well, the giant silver bird Has passed another test - And this time She came back home She returned to Her nest. Four hundred miles per hour - More than three miles high - She sure was a pretty sight As She streaked across the sky. In the early morning light She made a "booming" sound - Her head held high, bold and proud As She dropped to the ground. She'd been in another world For one week and a day - High above the Earth and clouds Where people look to pray. Taken so much for granted In this here day and age - But in the books of history She wrote another page. IN QUEST Challenging the earth’s heavens These seven pioneers Embarked to gain new knowledge To conquer new frontiers A new world lay before them The light of a new dawn A place of unknown dangers Where man has always gone To see beyond horizons To peer over the next hill Always a goal of mankind One, he must try to fulfill Some have come through unscathed And some were bound to die But none of them have failed For they had the will to try These gained immortality Though, on a tragic page In the book of history Of this newborn space age They offered and gave their all They paid the price supreme As mankind has always done In his quest of a dream. UNTITLED Challenger, I watched you As you first invaded space And you flew over me one morn To return to your home base. You went back out again Different people in control Though you were just a machine You'd helped man reach his goal. We will probably never know Why you said you were done - But why did you have to take The lives of those brave seven? You made yourself immortal With those you held inside To those who knew your "soul" To those below who cried. You did yourself so proud With your triumph over space But with your last attempt You caused so many a sad face. "Don't Challenge 'Er.", I said The first time around - But for these final words There's no title to be found. Del "Abe" Jones Last Flight? Been around since the Saturn’s Seen a lotta launches to the sky Saw the Challenger’s first landing And, Her first time, to fly. A bunch they’ve helped Mankind We learned things we never knew Ever since that first time Man spread his wings, and flew. Too bad, it wasn’t all for Peace Or just, for the good of Man But just like we always do Man screwed up, the plan! So much, we could have done To make this World a better place But someday, of the Human There won’t be, ‘nary a trace. What we haven’t killed or ruined Will bloom, and flourish, once more As higher powers, scratch their head And ask, “What was Mankind for?” Del “Abe” Jones 04.27.2011 A Poet A poet knows not day or night And not always wrong from right But without the poet’s written word Think of all we mightn’t heard. Del "Abe" Jones “Mankind's greatest accomplishment is not the revolution of technology, it is the evolution of creativity.” © 1984 Del “Abe” Jones More poetry herehttp://iwvpa.net/jonesd/index.php and here http://www.scribd.com/documents You can read my latest book, "Of Native American" here http://www.bookrix.com/showbooks.html?showbookonly=del.abe.jones_1265223173.3 449680805&mrsph=book Del "Abe" Jones Mankind's greatest accomplishment is not the revolution of technology, it is the evolution of creativity. copyright 1984 More poet |
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2islander2 Member Ascendant
since 2008-03-12
Posts 6825by the sea |
excellent, a poignant and necessary hommage, yann |
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