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@ 27.055 MHz: Ad Astra; Poem That I Gathered Together During The Eclipse---April 8th 2024

No interplanetary satellite

will ever eclipse you upon my line of sight:

and that is just exactly as it ought to be.

Your long-haired beauty is such that I most prefer

it even to our local sky's stellar grandeur.

Nor is this merely stated human perfidy.

We know from study of this world's great Poetry

(the prose textbooks still gather dust, high on a shelf)

that our love can explain the Cosmos to itself,

especially in the acts of intimacy.



Starward

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Decades ago, in 1976, when my handle/screen name was Starwatcher, I dreamed of and yearned to write a poem like this---a love poem written upon a cosmological setting.  Young and immature Starwatcher's ambition has been realized by old, and a little less immature, Starward.

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last updated 8 April 2024 - 10:22pm
©8 April 2024 - 8:05pm — S74rw4rd
10 April 2024 - 4:34am — patriciajj
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The way you intertwined the

The way you intertwined the cosmological, the ethereal and the human manifestation of the sublime is spectacular. This is certainly the fulfillment of your aspiration and it was a pleasure to witness its unveiling. The last two lines, being the heart, soul and lifeblood of your achievement, contain the billowing and crashing force of an orchestra. 

 

I would call that success. Congratulations! 

 
10 April 2024 - 7:33pm — S74rw4rd
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Thank you so very much.  Your

Thank you so very much.  Your words validate my purposes perfectly.

Starward