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Steve
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Number of posts: 1204
Points: 1512
Registration date: 2009-03-23
 | | Subject: Stargazing Thu Jan 26, 2012 12:18 am | |
| Stargazing.
On terra firma, we search wide and far
For tell tale signs, of some distant planets
Watching, and waiting, as light from a star
Slowly fades, as worlds complete their transits
Planets revolve around another Sun
Science looks for the light differential
Always to wonder, if this is the one
Whereupon life, would prove quintessential
And if such a world can be detected
Mankind advances, to the speed of light
Crosses the void, his target selected
Overcoming the perils of space flight
Though eons may pass, with nothing to show
Star systems exploded, light years ago
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Steve
www.noaddress.co.uk
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bruce_hh
Number of posts: 4218
Age: 64
Location: Monterey, California, U.S.A.
Points: 4633
Registration date: 2008-10-22
| | Subject: Re: Stargazing Thu Jan 26, 2012 12:39 am | |
| Dear **Steve**: You homed in on bright lights that long ago fought their main fights. Your sonnet's precisions provided provisions for feeling in awe of fine sights.  |
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davidf
Number of posts: 1713
Points: 1477
Registration date: 2008-10-22
| | Subject: Re: Stargazing Thu Jan 26, 2012 2:48 am | |
| Steve,
I am still waiting for (and if) there is a day when there is life -- intelligent or not -- on some other planet on some other galaxy. Good poem.
Your friend,
David Fox |
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Carol Perroni
Number of posts: 590
Points: 661
Registration date: 2008-12-27
| | Subject: Re: Stargazing Thu Jan 26, 2012 4:18 am | |
| A good poem about man's conquest of space, Steve  Who knows what we might find out there  Best, carol |
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antropolis
Number of posts: 826
Age: 37
Location: Garland, Tx
Points: 1508
Registration date: 2009-11-27
| | Subject: Re: Stargazing Thu Jan 26, 2012 7:43 pm | |
| That was a good sonnet Steve! ~Scott |
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Doreen Hampshire
Number of posts: 2531
Age: 71
Location: HULL England
Points: 2344
Registration date: 2008-10-22
| | Subject: Re: Stargazing Thu Jan 26, 2012 9:01 pm | |
| Well did you happen to see th bright lights this week Steve. Or was it too foggy for you _________________   |
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Steve
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Number of posts: 1204
Points: 1512
Registration date: 2009-03-23
| | Subject: Re: Stargazing Fri Jan 27, 2012 11:04 pm | |
| Thanks all. Yes Doreen, Rose and I are stargazing most evenings. Venus, and Jupiter are visible from here, and we shall be moving the telescope tomorrow night if its not cloudy. Did you watch Dr Brian Cox, (the next youngest looking after Cliff Richard).
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Steve
www.noaddress.co.uk
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Gilly J
Number of posts: 1239
Points: 1164
Registration date: 2008-10-21
| | Subject: Re: Stargazing Sun Jan 29, 2012 7:25 am | |
| I liked your poem.. and the universe will always make us pause... look.. and wonder... |
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Steve
Admin
Number of posts: 1204
Points: 1512
Registration date: 2009-03-23
| | Subject: Betelgeuse Tue Jan 31, 2012 12:00 am | |
| Betelgeuse a red giant in Orion
Casting its elements, of iron
It seems nearly over
For this supernova
As each atom turns into an ion
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Steve
www.noaddress.co.uk
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crushed rose
Number of posts: 1251
Points: 1471
Registration date: 2009-08-29
| | Subject: Re: Stargazing Wed Feb 01, 2012 10:04 pm | |
| we do indeed look at those stars, and wonder ....
a great sonnet about your favourite subject, Steve
Rose xx |
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