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Corona
Deep in the time of eclipse
As birds bed down and dusk creeps up
We see the Suns halo and crown
Reaching out to her children
Light in the darkness
Sunlight scatters from escaping electrons
Bounces off minute dust particles
While stripped atoms glow as crown jewels
Incandescently hot
Ethereal furnace
The act of seeing makes real
The fact of knowing sees beauty
The inner joyousness o...
Friday 16th June 2017 2:58 pm
Trial & Tribulation
Trial And Tribulation.
Blackness all around,
the depths of infinity.
They told me not to look.
A sixteen year old girl
told not to do something.
So I looked………
The slow twilight
as the sun began
to be devoured.
The ghostly stillness
of the cosmos
descending upon
Mother Earth, until,
it seemed,
the whole world
held...
Sunday 3rd November 2013 8:15 pm
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