What Can We Expect?
We’re about to discover how small we are.
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Intellectual Disconnect
The terms we use confuse and misdirect.
It’s like we still hold Ptolemy correct.
What We See
Parsimonious: stingy or frugal Retinal: relating to the layer of cells at the back of the eyeball that are sensitive to visible light due to absorbing pigments that trigger nerve impulses to the visual cortex of the brain By most estimates, we see less than four hundred thousandths of the electromagnetic spectrum (light), or […]
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“it helps, as it’s related to
some articles that we can hold.”
Visionary
Galileo Galilei found evidence through his telescope that our solar system was heliocentric (sun centered) and was labeled (or libeled) a heretic, forbidden to teach, forced to recant his claims publicly, confined to house arrest and all his published and future writings banned. Currently, we are anticipating our mathematically predicted solar eclipse, based upon the […]
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This poem won honorable mention in Balticon’s 2014 annual poetry contest. It conveys what we are able to learn by looking back in time to the earliest galaxies which lived fast and died young in a time of turbulence and chaos. “Bedtime” is when we can see the night sky. Seeing our progenitor galaxies, we […]
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“She is the stars
and lights the stage”
The First Stars
The eighth line of this sonnet was originally: “just that they were of an unstable class,” However, as a nod to public relations astronomer, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, I changed it to the more colorful phrasing seen here. It makes the entire poem seem more “badass.”
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“CHILDREN OF THE UNIVERSE” won in Lone Stars Magazine’s competition of the same name in 2012.
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This poem ponders what it was like for God, before there was a universe, and boredom seems the immediate answer to what’s it like to be infinite and perfect. With all things in unity but nothing in existence, there would be no action, no accomplishment, just endless sameness. But for something to come into being, […]
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BARD OF MARS 