Fueled by a million man-made wings of fire
the rocket tore a tunnel through the sky
and everybody cheered.
Fueled only by a thought from God
the seedling urged its way through the
thicknesses of black
and as it pierced the heavy ceiling of the soil
and launched itself up into outer space
no one even clapped.
Marcie Hans was born in 1928 and died in 1975.
Her last book was a collection of poems entitled Serve
Me a Slice of The Moon