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Jaime Fradera
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since 2000-11-25

Posts 843
Where no tyranny is tolerable

0 posted 2007-03-20 02:59 PM

I have never done this before.
I have just set the talking kitchen timer,
in sync with the atomic clock in Boulder,
so that the dance of hours, minutes and seconds can be heard.
And then tonight, after I've come from the store,
I will listen to the clock dancing off the seconds.
and as the Moment approaches I will stop whatever I am doing,
and as the Moment passes I will hold my breath,
and pause to contemplate the Mystery it represents.

For at 23-06 hours, Coordinated Universal Time,
somewhere, across thousands of miles of open water,
Somewhere, between Hawaii and Australia,
the fierce, tropical Sun will re-cross the equator.
No one will be there to see it happen,
Only the open Ocean, and a vast expanse of sky.
For a moment, both hemispheres will equally be lit.
For a day, both Dark and Light will last the same, or only for an instant.
Then our Earth will keep on tilting
in the Way that it is headed,
before, perhaps realizing it's mistake,
tilting back into position in the fall.

The planets and their satellites are also swinging in their circles,
rocking and dancing, back and forth
along their cosmic traces,
just as they have always done
in the several million years since their formation,
Just as they will continue to do for millions of years more
till the Sun burns out its hydrogen core,
swells in a mighty crimson blast of heat and Light,
before at last collapsing on itself,
leaving, in its fiery wake,
the cold, eternal blackness
of interstellar Night.

Florescent spheres in diamond studded galaxies ...
silver circles return to energy ...
(Country Joe and the fish)
southern cross

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

1 posted 2007-03-22 08:09 AM

Your stellar highway trips are always such fun!

Startime55
Member Elite

since 2003-04-05

Posts 2148
Alberta, Canada

2 posted 2007-03-22 01:32 PM

OHHHH How Magnificent....Your poem is so well done that I was easily able to picture myself along for the ride...SOOOO good to read you Jaime....***Big Hugs***

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