neil
fifty years
have gone by
so fast
just yesterday
I was sitting
on the floor
with my class
in the school
assembly room
all of us talking
shouting
laughing
all of us
watching
a black and white
tv
thinking about you
thinking
about you
and the moon
like it was
the first time
we’d ever seen it
waiting for you
waiting
excited
for an eagle
to land
up there
beyond the blue sky
and I heard you
say the words
saw a picture
too
that showed me
where you’d been
walking
walking
for the first time
on tranquility
that
was a moment
a very first
moment
and the world
changed
up there
down here
an eagle
an eagle landed
on the moon
I live
in such
a small world
now
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Frank Prem Poetry 
Beautifully put. I remember watching on TV too (just). I didn’t think the pictures were up to much đŸ˜‰ but then the full enormity probably doesn’t dawn on a 6 year old who’s just been watching Doctor Who. And which of us could have imagined all that has happened since. Now it is such a small world, you are so right.
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Thanks Chris. Very hard to take in the significance when we’re so young, but I think everything changed after that day. Wonderful stuff that we don’t get near to replicating these days, I don’t think.
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I was watching with my two year old son, waiting for my middle son to be born. Amazing both of us!
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Just amazing, Cheryl.
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Great piece, Frank!
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Thanks Ellen. It was a big moment.
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Even though I was eight I don’t remember it from when it happened… not sure if it wasn’t a big deal in my home or just what. We would have been off school for the summer, but still seems like we should have been paying attention to this!
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50 years. Hard to know from this distance what folk in your area might have thought of it.
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It was one of those “where were you when…” moments. Stoppard wrote a play called Jumpers that has a woman who becomes somewhat unhinged when man lands on the moon and the moon, the source of so many romantic songs, and so many references to the ‘man’ on the moon, is violated by a live human being landing and leaving a footprint.
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It becomes very surreal, doesn’t it?
It was an event where people seemed to want to get excited – in a quaint way, as I recall it.
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A great poem Frank! This is one of those times we remember like it was yesterday! I remember watching it on a small B&W tv in the bush country of Northern Alberta Canada!
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Yes. An extraordinary moment in the lives of all of us aware of it at the time. Spectacular aspiration achieved on behalf of us all.
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Great Post Frank! I remember that as well! An awesome event in History!
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Thank you, Dwight. It was a huge occasion, everywhere, I think.
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Yes and still is by most!
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