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hoot_owl_rn
Member Patricius

since 1999-07-05

Posts 10750
Glen Hope, PA USA

0 posted 2006-08-24 05:05 PM

Moon Starer

Oh father, tell me how
you harnessed the planets,
caught within your gaze,
and brought them back to earth?
Beyond your looking glass, you saw
a galaxy outside our comprehension.
You showed us Jupiter’s scarlet moons,
Saturn’s tawny rings, the crystalline stars of the Milky Way,
and told us there were mountains on the moon
if we would only believe.
You taught us life is made up
of things we can not gauge;
then before our eyes
made the immeasurable quantifiable.

God spoke to you, whispered,
in numbers, fractions and calculations;
but only you could hear his voice.
God spoke to you
…and the church proclaimed
you a heretic.

This poem is a bit different than what most here might expect from me. In case you had a problem understanding this piece, let me explain:

The title, Moon Starer, is an anagram for astronomer and the poem is about Galileo who has been labled the father of science, physics, and astronomy. He is credited for being one of the first to use a telescope to view the planets and he was known to have said God spoke in mathmatics and that we need to make the immmeasurable measurable. Because of his view that the Earth revolved around the sun he was labled a heretic by the church and sentenced to a life of imprisonment.

I am nothing special...and my name will soon be forgotten,but I've loved another with all my heart and soul,and to me,this has always been enough.~N.S

Interloper

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-06

Posts 8369
Deep in the heart

1 posted 2006-08-24 05:41 PM

... and now Pluto is no longer a planet...
I enjoyed this

Fool, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart and write.

Joyce Johnson

Member Rara Avis

since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

2 posted 2006-08-24 06:25 PM

This was very informative and enjoyable. Thank you. Joyce

Magnus

Member Laureate

since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

3 posted 2006-08-24 06:57 PM

Amazing isn't it....when one group has all
of the power but absolutely none of the
knowledge..

Good one Rush, much enjoyed the jog of
my memory cells.

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