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Forever the ember,
do you recall,
the month of December,
when we had it all?

I don't know,
perhaps I never will,
when thoughts were
clear, until.

they weren't.
Why does a mind
look at options
from behind?

A fear at night,
when the day is gone,
memories arise. Words
from the oldest song,

will appear again
in this mind of ours,
as we search heaven
for all our lost stars.

Hour after hour,
day by day,
I hear the question,
"What did he say?"

These words are
muttered, again,
"Pardon me,
I don't understand."

A lack of hearing,
seems to be the cause.
Heavy words from
old Santa Claus.

Thrashing through this field of sin,
oh what a dilemma we are in.
Never again, will I refrain,
about the time, about the pain.

My heart is shattered, into bits
of broken , emotional nits,
from a love lost long ago.
My heart, broken, I'll go slow.

White was the color,
reflecting in her eyes.
Perfume, the scent,
caused me to realize,

here was a passion,
a beauty to see,
whose joyful manner,
became her personality.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

On December 5, 2022, a camera on board the uncrewed Orion spacecraft captured this view as Orion approached its return powered flyby of the Moon. Beyond one of Orion's extended solar arrays lies dark, smooth, terrain along the western edge of the Oceanus Procellarum. Prominent on the lunar nearside Oceanus Procellarum, the Ocean of Storms, is the largest of the Moon's lava-flooded maria. The lunar terminator, shadow line between lunar night and day, runs along the left of this frame. The 41 kilometer diameter crater Marius is top center, with ray crater Kepler peeking in at the edge, just right of the solar array wing. Kepler's bright rays extend to the north and west, reaching the dark-floored Marius. By December 11, 2022 the Orion spacecraft had reached its home world. The historic Artemis 1 mission ended with Orion's successful splashdown in planet Earth's water-flooded Pacific Ocean.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

It's stars versus dust in the Carina Nebula and the stars are winning. More precisely, the energetic light and winds from massive newly formed stars are evaporating and dispersing the dusty stellar nurseries in which they formed. Located in the Carina Nebula and inside a region known informally as Mystic Mountain, these pillars' appearance is dominated by opaque brown dust even though it is composed mostly of clear hydrogen gas. Even though some of the dust pillars look like torches, their ends are not on fire -- rather, they are illuminated by nearby stars. About 7,500 light-years distant, the featured image was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope and highlights an interior region of Carina known as HH1066 which spans nearly a light year. Within a few million years, the stars will likely win out completely and the dust torches will completely evaporate.

The spirts fly,
high at night.
Some tequila,
will make it right.

Oh joy! At last a vision of loveliness,
You have that smile,
and the blue eyes,
which will beguile.

Your voice as sweet
as honey to the bee.
Your speech, soft it tis,
I enjoy seeing thee.