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Standing here.
Getting dizzy.
What the heck
Is a "Tin Lizzy?"
The first Model T,
Owned by Mr. Ford.
Oh, now I see.

The sound of music
floats through the trees.
I hear your voice;
So sweetly you sing.
The melodious sound
of the music I hear,
reminds me of times
when I called you dear.
Will those years return
back to thee?
I suppose they will,
when you are with me.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Transfusing sunlight through a darkened sky, this beautiful display of noctilucent clouds was captured earlier this week, reflected in calm waters from Nykobing Mors, Denmark. From the edge of space, about 80 kilometers above Earth's surface, the icy clouds themselves still reflect sunlight, though the Sun is below the horizon as seen from the ground. Usually spotted at high latitudes in summer months the night shining clouds have made an early appearance this year as northern nights grow short. Also known as polar mesopheric clouds they are understood to form as water vapor driven into the cold upper atmosphere condenses on the fine dust particles supplied by disintegrating meteors or volcanic ash. NASA's AIM mission provides daily projections of noctilucent clouds as seen from space.

Photo by Ruslan Merzlyakov

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Day slowly fades to black.
Moonless sky; Stars all bright,
on this, the darkest night.
Streaking comets, satellites too,
a most remarkable sight to view.

In fullest Sun;
not a bit shady
is where I spied
this Pink Lady.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

This telescopic close-up shows off the central regions of otherwise faint emission nebula IC 410, captured under backyard suburban skies with narrowband filters. It also features two remarkable inhabitants of the cosmic pond of gas and dust. Below and right of center are the tadpoles of IC 410. Partly obscured by foreground dust, the nebula itself surrounds NGC 1893, a young galactic cluster of stars. Formed in the interstellar cloud a mere 4 million years ago, the intensely hot, bright cluster stars energize the glowing gas. Composed of denser cooler gas and dust, the tadpoles are around 10 light-years long and are likely sites of ongoing star formation. Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation their heads are outlined by bright ridges of ionized gas while their tails trail away from the cluster's central young stars. IC 410 lies some 10,000 light-years away, toward the nebula-rich constellation Auriga.

Photo by Trevor Jones

Oh give me a break,
just this one time.
Provide me with words,
that I know will rhyme.

Words that fall with a clatter,
down to the floor.
Why does it matter?
If the words that I write
are meaningful or simply just trite.
Please God, just let me sleep,
once through the long night.

I know it sounds dumb
and childish to say,
but I am saying to you,
take your ball, go away.
You are not liked around here
and no one will play.
You're a wretch of a man
who has lost his way.

There is no law.
There is no rule.
There is nothing like
being an Old Fool.

Affairs of the heart,
breaks not the rule,
when falling in love,
like an Old Fool.

There is no future here,
it's plain to see,
just a friendly relationship,
with a Fool like me.

What do you do,
when that does appear?
Keep your friendship,
while holding it dear.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

What role do magnetic fields play in interstellar physics? Analyses of observations by ESA's Planck satellite of emission by small magnetically-aligned dust grains reveal previously unknown magnetic field structures in our Milky Way Galaxy -- as shown by the curvy lines in the featured full-sky image. The dark red shows the plane of the Milky Way, where the concentration of dust is the highest. The huge arches above the plane are likely remnants of past explosive events from our Galaxy's core, conceptually similar to magnetic loop-like structures seen in our Sun's atmosphere. The curvy streamlines align with interstellar filaments of neutral hydrogen gas and provide tantalizing evidence that magnetic fields may supplement gravity in not only in shaping the interstellar medium, but in forming stars. How magnetism affected our Galaxy's evolution will likely remain a topic of research for years to come.