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# Poem: An ode to our Moon
- URL: https://jatan.space/an-ode-to-our-moon/
- Published: 2022-12-14T11:19:58.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-20T04:34:14.000Z
- Author: Jatan Mehta
- Tags: Verses

*A blaze aloft at night* 
*sent a glimmer of hope* 
*flying past the desolation*

*It ignites around Moonshine,* 
*so we can all dazzle* 
*at the suspended blue marble*

*It twinkles again across the void* 
*for a blistering comeback,* 
*and a tactful splash*

*Let’s keep the path glowing* 
*for these engines of progress,* 
*so we can ferociously return*

*To our cosmic companion,* 
*like never before.*

![An inclined view of our Moon which is more than half lit.](https://jatan.space/content/images/2025/10/the-moon-by-galileo-wide.jpg)

Our Moon as imaged by the Galileo spacecraft flying past it on December 7, 1992\. [Image: NASA](https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacommons/9458193857)

**Poem notes:** The [success](https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-107/) of NASA’s [Artemis I](https://www.nasa.gov/mission/artemis-i/) Moon mission, and the [amazing views of our Moon](https://images.nasa.gov/album/Artemis%5FI) from its Orion spacecraft, inspired me to write a poem. The poem was featured on [Nature’s newsletter](https://mailchi.mp/nature/daily-briefing-13896088).

![The white, elongated Artemis I Orion spacecraft sporting various thrusters and NASA & ESA logos captured a view of our Moon and Earth in 2022 from a little distance away from the Moon such that our natural satellite appears larger than our planet due to apparent size differences.](https://jatan.space/content/images/2025/10/orion-space-earth-moon-us.jpg)

The Orion spacecraft, part of NASA’s Artemis I mission, captured this view of our Moon and Earth in November 2022\. This vantage point in its lunar orbit lies roughly 70,000 and 430,000 kilometers away from the Moon and Earth respectively. [Image: NASA](https://images.nasa.gov/details-art001e000678)

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*Part of* [***Seven uni-verses***](https://jatan.space/seven-uni-verses-poetry/)*, my globally published poetry pamphlet.*

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#### Seven uni-verses (booklet)

By [****Jatan Mehta**](https://jatan.space/about). Poetry on all that space evokes.

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