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Between the stars and the moon, I still look for my purpose...

The view through my telescope

This is a long duration exposure of the Orion Nebula! It's a gas cloud in space birthing new stars. Then next we have the Andromeda Galaxy, and then a supernova remnant called the veil nebula. I've been learning how to take these photos over the last decade, and I'm thinking they're starting to get... (edited) read more

Silence

Toward evening I stood in the field where the road forgets its name, and I spoke—not to God perhaps, nor to any kindly ear—but to the great machinery of the universe itself. The wind moved through the grass as though it had heard such requests before. I told it plainly: I am tired of carrying this... read more

One day

To my special someone one day.... I'll love you till the stars stop twinkling 🫶🥹🥺✨💗.

I got bored between calls this morning—so I wrote a decasyllabic multi-metered poem in the structure of a sonnet.

The breathless breath of a fallen star's glow; When I saw her, I found her—and I saw A winter's rain fall on summer sun's snow, On the earth, as steady as comets crawl. And what is one to think when Fall meets Spring? Leaping like a bird—from a leafless tree To fly through a blue sky, on moonlit... read more

From Memory of a Starlit Night

I whirl and whirl in cherubic glee, On a warm evening of summer. My vision sways, As i lay on the terrace my eyes trace the boundless azure sky, so much closer than it ever seems. In a moment of awe The stars swell brighter , brighter, glinting softly on my bare face. And as my body... (edited) read more