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Ready for Spring
• 03/18/24 at 11:06PM •Island County, WA
What Stream
• 03/18/24 at 03:24PM •What stream, wanders down,
a hillside, green?
What is wrong,
with a fernlike dream?
I don't know, here in my darkness
I may now cry,
for a love,
gone bye.
There Isn't a Queue
• 03/18/24 at 03:23PM •There isn't a queue,
for a broken heart,
except to realize,
I've done my part.
All the Love
• 03/18/24 at 03:23PM •All the love, I see,
in your eyes,
tells me, I need,
your sweet sighs
by my side and
my heart sings,
with all the warmth,
a love brings.
What chance is
there to be,
when it's your love,
I hope I see.
I Know Not of Tomorrow
• 03/18/24 at 03:22PM •I know not of tomorrow,
for its beyond my grasp,
like trying to lock up something,
which does not have a hasp.
What Are You Thinking
• 03/18/24 at 03:22PM •What are you thinking,
about your God above?
Don't be too sad, for you,
may be falling in Love.
Comet Pons-Brooks' Swirling Coma
• 03/18/24 at 12:16PM •NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:
A bright comet will be visible during next month's total solar eclipse. This very unusual coincidence occurs because Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks's return to the inner Solar System places it by chance only 25 degrees away from the Sun during Earth's April 8 total solar eclipse. Currently the comet is just on the edge of visibility to the unaided eye, best visible with binoculars in the early evening sky toward the constellation of the Fish (Pisces). Comet Pons-Brooks, though, is putting on quite a show for deep camera images even now. The featured image is a composite of three very specific colors, showing the comet's ever-changing ion tail in light blue, its outer coma in green, and highlights some red-glowing gas around the coma in a spiral. The spiral is thought to be caused by gas being expelled by the slowly rotating nucleus of the giant iceberg comet. Although it is always difficult to predict the future brightness of comets, Comet Pons-Brook has been particularly prone to outbursts, making it even more difficult to predict how bright it will actually be as the Moon moves in front of the Sun on April 8. Total Eclipse Info: 2024 Total Solar Eclipse from NASA
Photo by Jan Erik Vallestad
William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939) Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival. In his later years served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State. More
Hello My Darling
• 03/17/24 at 09:24PM •Hello my darling,
Happy Birthday to you.
I'm trying to not be lonely,
It's what I am trying to do.
What can I do,
I am searching for thee,
but in the darkness,
I can no longer find me.
Could Have Been
• 03/17/24 at 09:24PM •Could have been.
Couldn't be.
We'll never know,
We'll never see.
Refugees, we are,
Refugees, we will be,
As we flee from,
This warped society,
Where lying is encouraged,
While truth matters not.
All the Golden Rule's, broken.
Everyone can be bought.