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I am the solitary sun,. My home is in the blue sky,. I share it with the moon and stars,. And the clouds where the angels fly,. My job is to light your day,. To guide you through with my beams,.
All alone, Silence thick. Cold as ice, Just as slick. Ticking, tocking, The only sound. It's the clock with the arrows Going round and round. Moon comes up, Sun goes down.
So many things in our wee world Are actually not on show , And when we think a little bit There's not much we really know; Of a trillion billion galaxies We can see but five And to see the last...
Liquid. promises. in twilight. drink. I think. I might. give up. the fight. for love. causes. grief. and hate. and lately. I have been. contemplating. a state. of mind. that is hard to. find.
Voices eventually lose their place and become one of the stars. Sometimes you look up and wonder why they twinkle but mostly they get ignored. You'll shrug and shake your head.
Permafrost, Beautifully impregnated, With infinitesimal, Life. Sunlight, Classically illuminated, With unimaginable, Life. Ocean, Magnificently agitated, With insatiable, Life.
Shimmering, amber light lights the cold, onyx night. Delicate rays incrust the obsidian heavens with sparkling, golden light.
The Earth rolls evermore, its diurnal course stirring. Alluring the tempest, the ice-tipped blast from the savage north. Though waves of frenzied motion defy an icebound existence.
My fickle eyes can barely make A distance in the sky's black lake. A blur, a smudge... But not suffice To see a glint in rings of ice.
The atoms that comprise life on earth, the atoms that make up the human body are traceable to the crucibles that cooked light elements into heavy elements, in their core under extreme temperatures...
I am a little speck of space dust. Whizzing through the sky. I see the Earth in all its glory. From my vantage point up high. Twinkling stars and glowing moons. I pass on my journey.
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