SONG CHALLENGE WINNER!

The Challenge:  Since jeffp has already submitted a wonderful Valentine's Day song for the Mudcat Songbook today, I was stuck for a good challenge. Then, I took my youngest ones to the grocery store and had to again refuse to buy them a certain sugary cereal.  But, and blame it on the Muzak brain-fry, I got an idea! Here 'tis -- write a song using the shapes from the Lucky Charms cereal:  pink hearts, crescent moons, yellow stars, beautiful rainbows, red balloons, green clovers, and fluffy marshmellows!


To Eros From N.E.A.R. by Áine

Áine's Comments:  On February 14, 2000, NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (N.E.A.R.) began orbiting an asteroid named Eros, it's mission being to study this space rock and aid the scientists of Earth to one day defend themselves from a 'killer asteroid'.  Being Valentine's Day, I thought it appropriate that the orbiter would sing a love song to the orbitee.

I come to map your icy plains,
And twirl among your boulders,
Hovering o'er the frozen hollows,
Solar panels caress your shoulders

My thrusters fire and gently 
Send me into spatial orbit
I am the first to see the scene
As I make my microcircuit

A well formed rock of ice, of iron
The crescent moon shines beams
Upon a shadowed heart-like crater
Whose lip with space-frost gleams

From high kilometers your heart
Appears to me so still
But bidden closer by your pull
I can't resist your will

I suddenly am pulled away
Wild gyrations turning
Distant suns made rainbows
By my tortured rockets burning

A mystery, when gazed from Earth
Confused, but fuel maintaining
My sensors rise like red balloons
Eros again attaining

Deceptive, fluffy, marshmellow-like
Your stone cold mountains rise
Celestial attraction is your might
And no one hears my cries

The stars n'er spoke a word as drew
N.E.A.R. to clover-shaped ice mountains
Her fate sealed long ago, she crashed
Amidst his hoarfrost fountains.

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