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A rumble of
voices, a noise.
A babble of tones,
do you suppose,

people conversing,
talking along,
so many topics,
a mumbling song.

I'm sorry for the worry,
that followed you home.
Keeping those who love you
close, won't be alone.

I reach out.
Reaching in vain.
Calling to her,
Calling her name.

I awake startled,
she isn't in bed,
it's then I realize,
it was all in my head.

Sleeping together,
after 66 years,
is no longer possible.
I've realized my fears.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

For northern hemisphere dwellers, September's Full Moon was the Harvest Moon. Reflecting warm hues at sunset, it rises behind cypress trees huddled on a hill top in Tuscany, Italy in this telephoto view from September 28. Famed in festival, story, and song, Harvest Moon is just the traditional name of the full moon nearest the autumnal equinox. According to lore the name is a fitting one. Despite the diminishing daylight hours as the growing season drew to a close, farmers could harvest crops by the light of a full moon shining on from dusk to dawn. This Harvest Moon was also known to some as a supermoon, a term becoming a traditional name for a full moon near perigee. It was the fourth and final supermoon for 2023. Note: Non-NASA APOD mirror sites will be updated if the US goverment shuts down.

Photo by Antonio Tartarini

Abandoned as a child,
forsaken as a man.
Roadblocks to a path
to succeed. I know I can.

My inner peace,
is struggling once more.
Trying to reject depression,
as I get up from the floor.

There's nothing here,
I don't wish to keep score
about people's issues as
I don't relate anymore.

Forever we go.
Forever we stay.
Forever, a lifetime.
Forever ends, some day.

I may appear to be calloused,
when I don't care anymore.
That's far from the truth,
for improvement in writing, I implore.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Back from asteroid 101955 Bennu, a 110-pound, 31-inch wide sample return capsule rests in a desert on planet Earth in this photo, taken at the Department of Defense Utah Test and Training Range near Salt Lake City last Sunday, September 24. Dropped off by the OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft, the capsule looks charred from the extreme temperatures experienced during its blistering descent through Earth's dense atmosphere. OSIRIS-Rex began its home-ward journey from Bennu in May of 2021. Delivered to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on September 25, the capsule's canister is expected to contain an uncontaminated sample of about a half pound (250 grams) of Bennu's loosely packed regolith. Working in a new laboratory designed for the OSIRIS-REx mission, scientists and engineers will complete the canister disassembly process, and plan to unveil the sample of the near-Earth asteroid in a broadcast event on October 11.

Light rays reflecting,
from windowpane,
splattered with a,
cool Fall rain.

Leaf colors
starting to change,
now are wet,
a shiny color range.

The weather was wet,
the campfire was strong,
as the "Snap, Crackle, Pop",
were lyrics to a song.

How hot the flame,
to burn wet wood,
still wet, it will steam,
popping is not good.