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Florida Poet/Engineer Creates Columbia sts107 Memorial
Only a few more days left until the 10th anniversary memorial of the Columbia shuttle tragedy. A University of Florida Engineer has written a poem which he intends to incorporate into a sculpture that will forever remember these brave astronauts who gave their lives willingly to explore the inner workings of micro-gravity.
He wishes to memorialize the brave crew of STS107 into a sculpture that contains the following poem among other elements:
Columbia
Across the sky streaked white and blue,
incandescence ... turquoise too. The flame of
heroes old and new, of peace and joy of
heaven do ... the things that make us better
still are written in these flames unreal.
The stars therein we made this day burned
shortly bright and found their way to homes
and live-forever found the new beginning:
The final round!
They took their craft in gleaming gloam,
its beauty bound to heavens roam.
They took their time to find the plane,
where only they can be today.
And now their being, essence ... zest, its
poignancy, its magnificence ...
find words to weather the task of saying,
how they gave their last ...
The final measure!
R. Arthur Harker
(C) February 1, 2003
Free to distribute to anyone for any personal reason.
All other rights reserved
Robert Harker has also created a kickstarter project to croud-source the funds to begin this ambitious project. Backers may donate from $1 up to move the project along. He will be donating the proceeds to the university of Florida foundation to help with the effort and likely will have some of the work completed in the shops, labs and art spaces in the colleges of the university.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1796123309/columbia-memorial-sculpture
The more people who get involved to back it the better the final result. As of this writing they have collected $565 which is enough to make a decent sculpture that would incorporate the poem. The sky is the limit on how big and far this could go. Remember those 7 brave souls gave their last final measure. They gave everything that they are or ever will have been.
We owe them this.
He wishes to memorialize the brave crew of STS107 into a sculpture that contains the following poem among other elements:
Columbia
Across the sky streaked white and blue,
incandescence ... turquoise too. The flame of
heroes old and new, of peace and joy of
heaven do ... the things that make us better
still are written in these flames unreal.
The stars therein we made this day burned
shortly bright and found their way to homes
and live-forever found the new beginning:
The final round!
They took their craft in gleaming gloam,
its beauty bound to heavens roam.
They took their time to find the plane,
where only they can be today.
And now their being, essence ... zest, its
poignancy, its magnificence ...
find words to weather the task of saying,
how they gave their last ...
The final measure!
R. Arthur Harker
(C) February 1, 2003
Free to distribute to anyone for any personal reason.
All other rights reserved
Robert Harker has also created a kickstarter project to croud-source the funds to begin this ambitious project. Backers may donate from $1 up to move the project along. He will be donating the proceeds to the university of Florida foundation to help with the effort and likely will have some of the work completed in the shops, labs and art spaces in the colleges of the university.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1796123309/columbia-memorial-sculpture
The more people who get involved to back it the better the final result. As of this writing they have collected $565 which is enough to make a decent sculpture that would incorporate the poem. The sky is the limit on how big and far this could go. Remember those 7 brave souls gave their last final measure. They gave everything that they are or ever will have been.
We owe them this.
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