Writing a Small Poem
What is the story? After I saw the “two words” line in Linda Mitchell’s Clunker Exchange, I knew I had to use them for Irene Latham’s “Moon in June” challenge.
My first published picture book was Man on the Moon, an Apollo 11 story, and the 1997 cover (below) shows Neil Armstrong’s boot touching the moon. I wrote a short MOON HISTORY poem (with 2 words on each line) and then went looking for a NASA photo like the book cover.
The NASA photo one I found, however, had a different story than the poem I had written. The caption for this photo said: “One of the first steps taken on the Moon, this is an image of Buzz Aldrin’s bootprint from the Apollo 11 mission. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon on July 20, 1969.”
I loved the picture so much, I wrote a new poem! That’s my “two words” (for Linda) / “Moon in June” (for Irene) poem — and my fifth (and final) June #smallpoem.
Now it’s your turn! What is your MOON HISTORY story?
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