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Words are flowing,
as my mind runs amok.
I don't know what I'll
write. It won't be Tik Tok.

What words I think
or the words I hear,
I must write them quickly
or they will disappear.

Disappear, as in vanish,
no matter how hard I try,
those words in my thoughts
will be gone, no goodbye.

What is it like
in this mind of mine?
Spontaneous words appear
from my thoughts or thine.

I love to write,
knowing this is true.
If I couldn't write,
what would I do?

I need to talk.
These words are mine.
When I write for you,
I feel sublime.

Why do I write,
when I have time?
It's simply because
I want it to rhyme.

Dec 31, 2022 Sunset over Whidbey Island, WA

It is almost the first of January, when the gates of time open and allow us to enter the new year. We go undaunted with our doubts and hopes, to start another chapter of our lives and to face the unknown future without fear or regrets.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Makemake (sounds like MAH-kay MAH-kay), second brightest dwarf planet of the Kuiper belt, has a moon. Nicknamed MK2, Makemake's moon reflects sunlight with a charcoal-dark surface, about 1,300 times fainter than its parent body. Still, in 2016 it was spotted in Hubble Space Telescope observations intended to search for faint companions with the same technique used to find the small satellites of Pluto. Just as for Pluto and its satellites, further observations of Makemake and orbiting moon will measure the system's mass and density and allow a broader understanding of the distant worlds. About 160 kilometers (100 miles) across compared to Makemake's 1,400 kilometer diameter, MK2's relative size and contrast are shown in this artist's vision. An imagined scene of an unexplored frontier of the Solar System, it looks back from a spacecraft's vantage as the dim Sun shines along the Milky Way. Of course, the Sun is over 50 times farther from Makemake than it is from planet Earth.

I'll write about you,
the view I saw.
I am selfish, that way,
not my only flaw.

When I see you,
my heart does a flutter.
You are the picture,
I'm merely the shutter.

Please hear
the words I say.
I find you beautiful
in every way.

Want not the World.
Avoid any bad scene,
the love in the World
has turned into mean.

A cynical view
of what is today.
Caution is the word.
Heed what I say.

Full of emotions,
it's hard to think
about tomorrow's
swim or sink.

Off in the distance,
hearing sound of a drum.
Is it a signal now
of what is to come?

Having strange dreams,
thoughts in my head.
Not a pleasant one,
snakes in my bed.

Saratoga Passage, WA

#sunset