The Dark Side Of The Moon Poem by Sheena Blackhall

We never see its face
The dark side of the moon is turned away
Like a coy virgin

Now the spacecraft, Chang'e 4 has landed
Like a metal spider, down on its hinged legs

Earthshine does not reach this area
This battered, cratered, surface
Like a pockmarked skin

In 1967, the Map of the Moon
Was given to the world by Russian sources
The far side was first seen by human eyes
During the mission of Apollo 8
Astronaut William Anders described the view:

The backside looks like a sand pile
my kids have played in for some time.
It's all beat up, no definition,
just a lot of bumps and holes, he said

Amici, Aitken, Comrie, Auchin crater
Bok, Cantor, Comrie. Finsen and Fridman
Hertzsprung, Icarus, Jenner, Volkov, Kugler
Lacus Oblivionis, Leibnitz, Pogson

Maksutov, McKellar, Mare Australe
Volkov, Sverdrup, Titov, Shternberg
Nicholson, Nishina, Pettit, Mare Australe

China's satellite called theMagpie Bridge,
Will relay signals from the moon to Earth

A 1990 horror film
Fantasised on an abandoned shuttle there
Home to an alien, feeding on human souls
I prefer Astronaut William Anders take:
It's really ‘Just a lot of bumps and holes'