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Mid-Summers Valentine
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Mid-Summers Valentine |
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poettothecars Senior Member
since 2006-02-10
Posts 1093New Zealand 
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5525 Mid-Summers Valentine 15 July 2006 Where was love, in this mid-summers Valentine Far away in Hope, or just near by her heart beating to a winters cold This world not round enough to endure Summer Christmas, or winter cold snow on raindrops and rainbows to dream A love for all seasons, given the seed her beauty that of verdite few would understand to breathe Of a poet upon a winters dawn where in avenues the moon did weep Where was love, in sight of that truth her eyes, her kindness, seasons away Upon a woven tapestry with threads of silver aligned All central to one beginning could the stars know an answer the one God has failed to give The Earth’s seasons are not caused by the differences in the distance from the Sun throughout the year (these differences are extremely small). The seasons are the result of the tilt of the Earth's axis. The Earth’s axis is tilted by 23.45°. This tilting is what gives us the four seasons of the year - spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter. Since the axis is tilted, different parts of the globe are oriented toward the Sun at different times of the year. Summer is warmer than winter (in each hemisphere) because the Sun’s rays hit the Earth at a more direct angle during summer than during winter and also because the days are much longer than the nights during the summer. During the winter, the Sun’s rays hit the Earth at an extreme angle, and the days are very short. These effects being due to the tilt of the Earth’s axis. (When summer in the North will coincide with winter in the south) © 2006 Christopher W Herbert (a New Zealand Poet) a poet who cares |
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