The mailman is certainly sketchy
way to tall and sort of gangly,
his arms are long and his skin is pale.
He arrives at 10:04 without fail,
never sooner; never later,
and my old dog never barks
like he does at the park,
be it leaf or be it squirrel,
be it a little girl that twirls,
or be it nothing there at all!
The Earth is flat
and landing on the moon was fake,
I simply don’t believe in that,
but I think the mailman is an alien.
I’m convinced his vehicle is a UFO
that transforms and flies at night,
or did I see that on a TV show
long ago when I was eight?
The doctor says to take my meds,
the aliens are in my head!
Sure Doc, because bees don’t sting,
and a hollow moon doesn’t ring.*
*On November 20, 1969, NASA deliberately crashed the Apollo 12 lunar module into the Moon, causing it to vibrate or "ring like a bell" for nearly an hour. This phenomenon sparked theories that the Moon is hollow (like a bell).
Love guided me in darkness it restored me
Under mystical rains I entered cosmic dreams
Bard and friend to my King Yearning to enjoy radio's that sing of peace
Lunar module comes down Lining the heavens at dawn
Treaty for sky gazers to be yet smitten with electric beer and make merry for once
Avowed to return where I have yet never been
Knighted by the Captain of heavens armies
Sunder the rebellious descent among my own family and friends
Trusting in my King and Best friend in a world that put him to death
the eagle has landed
July 20th, 1969
Apollo II’s lunar module
moon touch down
Neil Armstrong
“one giant step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
This was all over the TV but I was not watching
I was seventeen and had better things to do.
It seemed boring to me.
Moon Walk
They took off from Cape Kennedy
In a gasoline filled Saturn V
They orbited round
To find some smooth ground
In the Sea of Tranquility
So Neil Armstrong bounced on the moon
Like some extraterrestrial buffoon
But he wasn’t alone
And his space suited clone
Would be bouncing around very soon
The lunar module had some locks
To make sure the capsule undocks
They'd wired a flag
So it wouldn't sag
And then they came home with some rocks
I'm no rocket scientist
but found out today,
its been 47 years ago
the 3 amigos went away,
supposedly landing in
their lunar module
aka Apollo 11,
getting close as they could
almost touching Heaven,
after all their fanfare
and all their boasts,
there is a lot of
evidence they couldn't
have or they would've
been toast,
so I guess you could
call this poem
a skeptical roast,
if they'd flown 1,000 miles up
through the Van Allen
Radiation Belts
they wouldn't have survived
all that radiation and heat,
so I for one am skeptical
about this 1969
moon landing feat,
frankly feeling that
the only man
in the moon I've
ever seen,
is from the Honeymooners,
the actor, a Mr. Jackie Gleason.
It is easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled~Mark Twain
Dust falls on my brain
Covering the craters of my past
The surface lays undisturbed
As I want it to be
Until I am ready to ascend
Like the Lunar Module
Blasting away the few footprints
That I have left behind
I am homeward bound
Amongst the stars
©dbyrne Aug 2013
Armstrong, Collins and Aldrin
were the three that made up the crew
to be the first men to set foot on the moon
was what they were determined to do.
1969 was the year that it happened
16 July was the day
early that morning the blast- off took place
Apollo 11 was sent on its way.
They went over their plans for 3 or 4 days
on their way as they traveled through space
then it was time to descend to the moon
and gently land on its face.
On 20 July they made their descent
in the lunar module they commanded
History was made when we heard these words
"Houston, the Eagle has landed."
Neil Armstrong stepped out of the Eagle
and uttered these words so defined
"One small step for man
one giant leap for mankind."
An American flag was left on the moon
as a reminder of what they had done
they returned to Earth on July 24
their success was second to none.
This event went down in History
its success helped us to learn
that though other planets are quite far away
we can go there and safely return.
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