Another sonnet on this topic comes from the sequel to Bard Of Mars, entitled View From Earth: PEDAGOGIC PROTOCOL Be careful what analogies you use. Sometimes they are literally taken and could misrepresent, mislead, confuse, or trap in a premise that’s mistaken the very minds that you seek to inform about the design and […]
Read more "Universal Misconception"We can see that even space is changing,
as it expands relatively through time.
The galaxies are all rearranging
in cosmic choreography sublime.
Read more "Spatial Perception"PAREIDOLIA (The Shapes Of Perception) Predators have faces, so our brain is hardwired to recognize such shapes that may be hidden amidst the terrain, since before modern man emerged from apes. Our imagination’s proclivity to spot a beast’s approach or arrival is not a gauge of creativity but evolutionary survival. The animals viewed […]
Read more "PAREIDOLIA"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 […]
Read more "What We See"“it helps, as it’s related to
some articles that we can hold.”
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 […]
Read more "Visionary"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 […]
Read more "Astral Lullaby"“She is the stars
and lights the stage”
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.”
Read more "The First Stars"“CHILDREN OF THE UNIVERSE” won in Lone Stars Magazine’s competition of the same name in 2012.
Read more "Children Of The Universe"
BARD OF MARS 