"Traversing"
A small tribute to the Space Shuttle: Columbia

cji
2/1/03

Carrying to the clouds
beyond a hands reach
begetting empty shrouds
so much to yet teach.

Forces found within
taken without thought
now the veil so thin
emotions fully caught.

Columbia way up high
climbing into heaven
unable not to cry
gone are these seven.

Comfort weathers many
understanding the eternal
questions to be plenty
feeling of the ethereal.

Clasping hands on high
a twinkling of the eye
bidden with all to cry
carried away in the sky.

Traversing the eternities
endless time never alone
with never more mysteries
entering the Master's home.

 1 Cor. 15:51-52 "Behold, I show you a mystery.  We shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed."

 

  

          

 

"High Flight"

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds...and done a hundred things
 

You have not dreamed of...wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
 

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew.
 

And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high un-trespassed sanctity of space
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
 

Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee
No 412 squadron, RCAF
Killed 11 December 1941

 

Wish I knew who did this so I could give them credit..

Bill

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