Last stops around Victoria, before the Long Trek |
Last stops around Victoria, before the Long Trek |
Sep 27 2008, 10:41 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
Let's use this topic for the last stops (Cabo Frio, perhaps?) before Opportunity leave the vicinity of Victoria for good.
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Oct 1 2008, 03:38 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Okay...
I've been working on this for a while, time to set it free... Some of you will like it, some of you will hate it. Fair enough. It's what I feel. ENDEAVOUR CALLS… What once was a beguiling, beckoning bowl – A gargoyle-edged hole carved in the great Meridiani Plain – is now falling far behind; A rapidly-thinning line drawn between the high Cathedral dome of Mars’ pastel-pink sky And the pebble-spattered, track-trenched Ground. What we found down there, On the cliff-shadowed slopes of fair Victoria Made us stop and stare in wonder: Rocks sculpted into sheaths of brittle, broken blades By millennia of dust-drenched wind; Slanting shafts of sunlight shining On the sea of sand dunes at its heart; Book-leaf layers of ancient stone, glowing Amber and gold as twilight faded to night… What memories we leave behind..! But on the flat and far horizon now A new adventure calls, and if the fates allow, If an already-weary rover’s battered body Can somehow find the strength to carry on For one more stolen year, one sol Opportunity will hear Us scream and shout out in delight at the impossible sight Of Endeavour’s Mordor hills looming up before her eyes. And then, content, we will smile, re-living each heroic mile Before telling Oppy “That’s far enough. Rest now, little one, Your work is done.” And then, at last, she’ll sleep A deep and dreaming sleep, with History as her pillow. And here on Earth we’ll celebrate a noble rover’s Journey across the endless dry and rippled sea of the Great Plain of Meridiani. © Stuart Atkinson 2008 -------------------- |
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