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Why are the embers,
glowing red,
while the fire burns
above our head.

Do you understand,
do you not know,
when fire surrounds you,
there is no place to go.

Fire is like
emotions in life,
we all will experience
a type of strife.

The pressure of life,
occurs every day,
you can't escape it,
by running away.

Today or tomorrow,
or even yesterday,
a collection of memories,
a memory array.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Do you see the horse's head? What you are seeing is not the famous Horsehead nebula toward Orion, but rather a fainter nebula that only takes on a familiar form with deeper imaging. The main part of the here-imaged molecular cloud complex is reflection nebula IC 4592. Reflection nebulas are made up of very fine dust that normally appears dark but can look quite blue when reflecting the visible light of energetic nearby stars. In this case, the source of much of the reflected light is a star at the eye of the horse. That star is part of Nu Scorpii, one of the brighter star systems toward the constellation of the Scorpion (Scorpius). A second reflection nebula dubbed IC 4601 is visible surrounding two stars above and to the right of the image center.

Photo by Antoine & Dalia Grelin

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

What's happening to this spiral galaxy? Just a few hundred million years ago, NGC 2936, the upper of the two large galaxies shown at the bottom, was likely a normal spiral galaxy -- spinning, creating stars -- and minding its own business. But then it got too close to the massive elliptical galaxy NGC 2937, just below, and took a turn. Sometimes dubbed the Hummingbird Galaxy for its iconic shape, NGC 2936 is not only being deflected but also being distorted by the close gravitational interaction. Behind filaments of dark interstellar dust, bright blue stars form the nose of the hummingbird, while the center of the spiral appears as an eye. Alternatively, the galaxy pair, together known as Arp 142, look to some like Porpoise or a penguin protecting an egg. The featured re-processed image showing Arp 142 in great detail was taken recently by the Hubble Space Telescope. Arp 142 lies about 300 million light years away toward the constellation of the Water Snake (Hydra). In a billion years or so the two galaxies will likely merge into one larger galaxy.

I remember the event,
not by date, just a peep.
of saying "Get in the car girls,"
They said, "Get lost you creep."

Those words spoken
to my friends and I,
by my future wife
and her friend. Sigh!

Visiting my wife,
she was asleep,
as it usually is.
Too tired to weep.

Round it up.
Turn it down.
Don't act normal.
Be the Clown.

Enjoy your life,
times running short.
Get it together,
don't abort.

Play hard,
every day.
Do it now or,
it's going away.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

What's rising above the horizon behind those clouds? It's the Sun. Most sunrises don't look like this, though, because most sunrises don't include the Moon. In the early morning of 2013 May 10, however, from Western Australia, the Moon was between the Earth and the rising Sun. At times, it would be hard for the uninformed to understand what was happening. In an annular eclipse, the Moon is too far from the Earth to block the entire Sun, and at most leaves a ring of fire where sunlight pours out around every edge of the Moon. The featured time-lapse video also recorded the eclipse through the high refraction of the Earth's atmosphere just above the horizon, making the unusual rising Sun and Moon appear also flattened. As the video continues, the Sun continues to rise, while the Sun and Moon begin to separate. The next annular solar eclipse will occur in less than three weeks. On Saturday, October 14, a ring of fire will be visible through clear skies from a thin swath crossing both North and South America. Tour the Universe: Random APOD Generator

When the rays of the Sun,
bring warmth to the ground,
or the wind in the willows,
stirs branches around,

then I will remember,
through thick and thin,
where I was when
it all would begin.