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Our days are numbered
in this World we live.
Keep out the hate,
life is too short.
Love one another,
respecting other views.
Disagreements are fine,
you may win or lose.

Words are spat
from my mouth,
spewing away,
as I search
for something,
meaningful to say.

It circles the night sky,
a kite without strings.
No learning to fly,
isn't that our life?
Full of up and downs,
filled with a tragedy
of unrepentant Clowns.

I long for the sunshine
in my true love's smile,
to lift up my spirits,
taking our life once again,
back to the edge
of a far away shore.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

The Mare Orientale, Latin for Eastern Sea, is one of the most striking large scale lunar features. The youngest of the large lunar impact basins it's very difficult to see from an earthbound perspective. Still, taken during a period of favorable tilt, or libration of the lunar nearside, the Eastern Sea can be found near top center in this sharp telescopic view, extremely foreshortened along the Moon's western edge. Formed by the impact of an asteroid over 3 billion years ago and nearly 1000 kilometers across, the impact basin's concentric circular features are ripples in the lunar crust. But they are a little easier to spot in more direct images of the region taken from lunar orbit. So why is the Eastern Sea at the Moon's western edge? The Mare Orientale lunar feature was named before 1961. That's when the convention labeling east and west on lunar maps was reversed.

Photo by Tom Glenn

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A war of words,
rages every day,
to build anew
or to throw away?
Having little faith,
in do or not do,
what I say,
will be up to you.

In all of the World,
so far and wide,
I have always wanted
someone like you,
close by my side.

The river runs long.
The land is wide.
Why are you missing
away from my side?

There is an enjoyment
when I visit my wife,
for she says
"I love you" many times,
which breaks my heart,
to see her slip away
from our life's reality.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

South of the large star-forming region known as the Orion Nebula, lies bright blue reflection nebula NGC 1999. At the edge of the Orion molecular cloud complex some 1,500 light-years distant, NGC 1999's illumination is provided by the embedded variable star V380 Orionis. The nebula is marked with a dark sideways T-shape at center right in this telescopic vista that spans about two full moons on the sky. Its dark shape was once assumed to be an obscuring dust cloud seen in silhouette. But infrared data suggest the shape is likely a hole blown through the nebula itself by energetic young stars. In fact, this region abounds with energetic young stars producing jets and outflows with luminous shock waves. Cataloged as Herbig-Haro (HH) objects, named for astronomers George Herbig and Guillermo Haro, the shocks have intense reddish hues. HH1 and HH2 are just below and right of NGC 1999. HH222, also known as the Waterfall nebula, looks like a red gash near top right in the frame. To create the shocks stellar jets push through the surrounding material at speeds of hundreds of kilometers per second.

Photo by Vikas Chander

Long lay the lines
of a knotted-up sky.
Clouds, darkly twisted,
corkscrew in shape.
Dark was the night
as storm clouds amassed,
to the distant horizon.