Poetry Collections | Andrew Barnes poetry

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Poem of the month

Apollo

We queued for an hour to file past,

little me clinging to my Dad's arm.

Up close the spacecraft appeared

to be largely tin foil and rubber bands.

To say we'd seen this iconic machine

appealed to my father's inner engineer,

to my mind's explosion of toy rockets,

but it was less, and more, than imagined.

In the long line we had shuffled

by space rock in glass cabinets,

read of tiny meteors,

learned about weightlessness,

imagined the pressured confines

of the Lunar Landing Module,

gleaned that the name was for the God

of prophecy, poetry, the sun and light.

Universal wonders embraced,

the vastness of space and our tiny planet,

mankind's ingenuity before us,

the bravery of the human spirit,

and yet by the end of our mission

neither of us could really believe

that men had orbited the moon,

in an upturned bucket, a flimsy egg-shell.

Pushing out the boat

My poem 'States of mind' is featured in issue 18 of 'Pushing out the boat' magazine- launched on Sunday 18th May 2025.

Many thanks to all involved! See link below

Dark Poets club

My poem 'Butterfly' is featured on the Dark Poets club website. See link below:

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