Cave Poetry

[wyandottecaver]

apparently I know how to kill a topic! :P

[GroundquestMSA]

apparently I know how to kill a topic! :P

Maybe we're all ashamed by our indulgence in non-rhyming poetry artistic and creatively arranged words.

First in a thousand foot chasm because you were the first that tried

This line interested me. It's true. Discovering something new and exciting has little to do with anything other than initiative. I believe that anyone who wants to go find virgin cave can go find virgin cave, and plenty of it.

To be the first to trod new lands where no man has trod before
You must travel where no light shines in realms of darkened lore
You can rocket to the rocks in space or dive to the ocean floor
Today you can’t do either of these without a degree and poor

For only the most elite of NASA can ride a shuttle’s plumes
And only a lucky few are chosen to see the tube worm blooms
Millionaires can buy a rocket ride with their petroleum fumes
Spectacled scientists pay their way with years in college rooms

Comparing caving to space exploration seems to be pretty common, if a bit grandiose. I recall once writing the same thing (quite originally, I adolescently believed) in a "poem" that ended something like:

"I suppose from space it's all the same, and silly too
But we have to be proud of something
And my legs
Are a poor man's rocketship."