Shoot for the Moon...and Beyond

PAD Challenge day 14: For today’s prompt, pick a popular saying and make that the title of your poem; then, write your poem.

Norman Vincent Peale — 'Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.'

Keen passion’s flame that aims at fancy aiming for the stars

And will the truth of youth to more than blips on calendars

Let being’s beauty of dream-duty’s duel fuel life

And drink the ink of poetry to calm the qualms of strife

War for far more than war of words; this roar of dust-to-dust

Soon lies annulled; its prizes culled of care’s extinguished trust

Shoot for the moon; high noon and June’s polished turquoise and gold

Always falls prey to end-of-day and ploys of growing old

Take time to make from rhyme and mime of tick-tock filigree

After its said-and-done is said and done, love-poetry

Find fond remembrances to dance with on dusk’s shadowed sod

Phrase thankfulness to praise and raise its worship-lays to God

© Janet Martin