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An Arroya, a Canyon,
a space 'tween your ears,
enough room for worries,
more space for your fears.

No life to live.
No life to lie.
What happens now,
When memories die?

Straight the string,
to my heart,
tied to my Souls
emotional plight.

Why must I worry
about thee,
when I know your
worry about me?

I hear a worrisome
thought in my head.
I suppose I should
have stayed in bed.

Yellow stripes,
Hello big cat,
do you have a clue
of where we are at?

Jumped he did,
caught the branch,
swinging high, then
a scurrying chance.

Funny, he was,
to the gathering crowd,
a shrieking howl,
my goodness, so loud.

When rocking away,
using his tail,
sweeping a branch,
he did prevail.

Easy as pie,
not difficult to do,
with a long tail,
living at the Zoo.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

A flying saucer from outer space crash-landed in the Utah desert after being tracked by radar and chased by helicopters. The year was 2004, and no space aliens were involved. The saucer, pictured here, was the Genesis sample return capsule, part of a human-made robot Genesis spaceship launched in 2001 by NASA itself to study the Sun. The unexpectedly hard landing at over 300 kilometers per hour occurred because the parachutes did not open as planned. The Genesis mission had been orbiting the Sun collecting solar wind particles that are usually deflected away by Earth's magnetic field. Despite the crash landing, many return samples remained in good enough condition to analyze. So far, Genesis-related discoveries include new details about the composition of the Sun and how the abundance of some types of elements differ across the Solar System. These results have provided intriguing clues into details of how the Sun and planets formed billions of years ago.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

A darker Moon sets over Manhattan in this night skyscape. The 16 frame composite was assembled from consecutive exposures recorded during the November 8 total lunar eclipse. In the timelapse sequence stars leave short trails above the urban skyline, while the Moon remains immersed in Earth's shadow. But the International Space Station was just emerging from the shadow into the sunlit portion of its low Earth orbit. As seen from New York City, the visible streak of this ISS flyover starts near a star in Taurus and tracks right to left, through the belt of Orion and over Sirius, alpha star of Canis Major. Gaps along the bright trail of the fast moving orbital outpost (and an aircraft flying closer to the horizon) mark the time between individual exposures in the sequence. The trail of bright planet Mars is at the top of the frame. Pleiades star cluster trails are high over the eclipsed Moon and Empire State Building. Lunar Eclipse of November 2022: Notable Submissions to APOD Love Eclipses? (US): Apply to become a NASA Partner Eclipse Ambassador

Photo by Stan Honda

The nights grow longer,
we are covered with cool air,
which covers our being
and our loved ones, everywhere.
Brightness comes from the East,
as a new dawn, cuts the gloom
while rays of the Sun
fill up the room.

Out there,
beyond the Sea,
is where
I want to be.

Alone
on the beach
by the Sea shore.
A favorite spot,
to be at once more.

The sound of waves,
the cry of the seagull,
makes me happy
living life, full.

After the Rose
has lost its bloom,
after the Sun
breaks the gloom,
it will be the
time to say,
things didn't
always go my way.

I would like to fly
through the clouds,
of a rose-colored sky.
To soar to the heights,
close to the Sun,
with memories of
how our love started,
when we were young.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

On November 8 the Full Moon turned blood red as it slid through Earth's shadow in a beautiful total lunar eclipse. During totality it also passed in front of, or occulted, outer planet Uranus for eclipse viewers located in parts of northern America and Asia. For a close-up and wider view these two images were taken just before the occultation began, captured with different telescopes and cameras from the same roof top in Shanghai, China. Normally very faint compared to a Full Moon, the tiny, pale, greenish disk of the distant ice giant is just to the left of the Moon's edge and about to disappear behind the darkened, red lunar limb. Though only visible from certain locations across planet Earth, lunar occultations of planets are fairly common. But for this rare "lunar eclipse occultation" to take place, at the time of the total eclipse the outer planet had to be both at opposition and very near the ecliptic plane to fall in line with Sun, Earth, and Moon. Lunar Eclipse of November 2022: Notable Submissions to APOD Love Eclipses? (US): Apply to become a NASA Partner Eclipse Ambassador

Photo by Ryan Han