For Odd Helgason 

A Work in Progress
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First footsteps on the flagstones then pumping of the drones

It’s Catcherside the piper plays up high there in the stones

Watching the music waving its way lit by the moon and stars 

Remembering those long passed away, among them why, why her

The pipes put down he scans the sky so full of constellations

Orion   Aurvandil    Orvandil

An Icelandic farmer was one who knew their names

Odd Helgason who mapped the stars

A relative of those who looted Holy Island

Who sailed to Iceland discovered Greenland

Newfoundland Baffin Bay Ellesmere Island

Hunting for walrus tusks or just going Viking

Brave astronauts go towards the moon NASA at its best

Will they return to a world at war that America has distressed?

Dick Russell © Richard M Russell

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