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Yet [*/+/^] : 27.225 MHz, Some Final Measures; *All Ye Stars Of Light*---Psalm 148:3; A Sonnet For Patriciajj
The sun by day, the moon and stars by night:
the shimmering of their effulgent light
is not, merely, physics' illumination,
but rather is a radiant invitation
to summarize them in cosmology
(despite doubters' counsel to hesitation):
connecting them, through lines of poetry,
into fully expressive constellation
of human language, in words wrought to last
(as God's Word gave us) through eternity,
in which present unites future and past.
This may be our species' highest vocation;
and, in the stars, a faithful expectation:
and---to our stellar souls---sheer exultation.
Starward
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I'm beyond gratified to read
I'm beyond gratified to read this astronomical wonder and deeply humbled that you dedicated such a treasure to me. I'll tell you honestly, that even if I wasn't attached to it in any way, I would be spellbound by this poem of the highest order with its vastness of thought, its profound significance to "our stellar souls" and its deep dive into realms most poets never dare to go.
Now here's something strange: I'm getting ready to post a new poem and, as always, I'm hung up on one or two words, but when I do post it you'll notice a similarity between a concept I tried (all I can do is try) to tackle and the eleventh line of your poem. I assure you this was entirely coincidental.
Thank you again and again for a gift that will be remembered through this life and, most likely, into the next. May God bring you every blessing.
Thank you so very much.
Thank you so very much.
Starward