Eric Ashford Poet Blank verse

Space Poets

Of those who have gone to the moon,
I can name maybe six, 
including those
that stayed behind in the capsule. 

I was thinking about the astronauts 
that just watched,
monitoring the rest of the crew below,
those fooling around on the moon-dust. 
Perhaps the capsule guys were the ones
that had the larger view,
perhaps they beheld 
the greater poetry of it?

I suspect there are constellations
of astronaut poets,
ones that orbit, record,
and note the star-travelling scribblings 
of all earthly watchers.

They also are spacemen and women,
ones that do not care too much 
for dust.

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