I was thinking that most of our news stories are about the environment, our work and of course play. So I wanted to show there is more to us expeditioners; that we are in fact deep thinkers with culture, wisdom and an untapped reservoir of artistic prose. How to do that? Well, a poetry contest of course! A barrier of course is the shy, introverted nature of great artisans, so I put up a prize no one could resist, the chance to launch their own weather balloon. Of course there was a catch — it had have a weather theme. Here’s a taste of our work and a big thanks to all the crew that had a crack. The winning poem will be in next week’s station news.
Steve B
The Clouds of Winter by Shane Kern
Life is a Balloon by Veste Zwaart
Troposhere then Stratosphere
A bridge to far Mesoshpere
Weather Limerick by Ian Coleman
There was a man from Met,
He took on a bet,
Who could lift the balloon the highest?
Why it was the mighty Cirrus,
Who won the bet from Met.
Weathering the Weather by Eddie Dawson
Whatever the weather, we will have to forever, weather the weather together,
Weathering the weather, whatever the weather, being it sunshine, rain or snow,
We can weather the weather happily together as long as we know where to go,
It depends on whether the weather we weather, if bad then inside is fine,
But if the outside weather we want to weather together, that could only mean sunshine,
So whatever the weather the weather man tells us doesn't always come true,
So we should be happy of whether whatever the weather we weather together will do.