The Moon

                                                                           Picture by Tomascastelazo

Image: Reaching for the Moon

Source: Wikimedia Commons licensed under Creative Commons licence ( here )

President Kennedy’s  impassioned

speech of May 25,1961 rang loud and clear

Gripped the nation’s attention

That ‘before this decade is out,

 of landing a man on the moon

and returning him safely to the earth’

President Nixon elated at the success

spoke to Astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin

on July 20, 1969, extolling the joy 

and pride of the nation of 

having achieved the goal

But as fast as it had happened as early

as the 1970’s itself, detractors claimed NASA

faked the landings spawning a slew of

‘conspiracy theories’ 

The Moon

It has always been

there. That‘s one small step for a

man. What a challenge!

Say what you may. One

giant leap for mankind..Could

not have been better

A dream achieved. A

nation’s goal met before the

end of the decade

'That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind'

(Words said when Armstrong first stepped onto the moon)

Anna in her first hosting had suggested a combination of a prose and a poem
Written for Anna's d'Verse Meeting the Bar: Postmodern (Prose) and Kris' Carpe Diem #5 with prompt -moon-