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Walk with me,
my young child.
One pace behind,
will be our style.

Hurry you, not,
slow our pace.
A graceful walk,
full of grace.

Quiet will be,
our private walk,
as you listen,
as I talk.

I have much,
which I will tell.
When we are quiet,
there's no need to yell.

When we walk
in this way,
we will truly have
a blessed day.

All the words,
jammed into my head.
Spontaneous words,
words to be read.

write them,
on paper white,
writing slowly,
they'll be alright.

Avoid using,
those words old
be they skinny,
Or be they cold

Words will find,
their own place,
if you write about
a smiling face.

Love me now,
or not at all,
be it Winter,
Spring, Summer or Fall.

My want in life
is a happy you.
My wish is to know,
what I can do.

Yesterday, I saw you,
you kept asking me,
"Who are you?"
Joy is when I see,
you, although,
you don't know me.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

For ten years the stargazer dreamed of taking a picture like this. The dreamer knew that the White Desert National Park in Egypt's Western Desert is a picturesque place hosting numerous chalk formations sculpted into surreal structures by a sandy wind. The dreamer knew that the sky above could be impressively dark on a clear moonless night, showing highlights such as the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy in impressive color and detail. So the dreamer invited an even more experienced astrophotographer to spend three weeks together in the desert and plan the composite images that needed to be taken and processed to create the dream image. Over three days in mid-March, the base images were taken, all with the same camera and from the same location. The impressive result is featured here, with the dreamer -- proudly wearing a traditional Bedouin galabyia -- pictured in the foreground.

Photo by Amr Abdelwahab

Here I sit alone,
not what I expected,
when growing up,
when I was young.

When life was smooth
and then everts,
your emotions jumbled.
They will hurt.

All the things we know.
All the things we do,
change for us,
when we move.

All the confusion,
not knowing where,
the tools we use,
gone, we are unaware.

Not just your life
will change,
but all your habits,
will be rearranged.

The trauma which
is upon you now,
is composed of
what, who and how.

Ducks will waddle,
chickens will dance,
turkeys will gobble,
doves will romance.

Crows will caw,
bluebirds will sing.
Get too close
they'll take to wing.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Can you find two Earth shadows in today's image? It's a bit tricky. To find the first shadow, observe that the top part of the atmosphere appears pink and the lower part appears blue. This is because the top half is exposed to direct sunlight, while the lower part is not. The purple area in between is known as the Belt of Venus, even though Venus can only appear on the other side of the sky, near the Sun. The blue color of the lower atmosphere is caused by the Earth blocking sunlight, creating Earth shadow number 1. Now, where is the second Earth shadow? Take a look at the Moon. Do you notice something unusual about the lower left part? That area appears unusually dark because it is in the shadow of the Earth, creating Earth shadow number 2. To be precise, the Moon was captured during a lunar eclipse. This carefully timed image was taken in Sampieri, Sicily, Italy, in July 2018.

Photo by Marcella Giulia Pace

Photo by Ricardo Gomez Angel on Unsplash

Happy Birthday,
my mother, dear.
Missing you, so,
wish you were here.

You have been gone,
now seventeen years.
Please help me,
calm my fears.