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I hear a melodious sound,
of your beautiful voice
like music to me,
and I do rejoice.

Our friendship is special,
and I reach out, with the new,
seeing you with your smile
as you come into view.

You are the brightness,
which I long to see.
I hope you are very happy,
for you are beautiful to me.

Hey old friend.
Hey old Pal.
I miss our conversations,
your old friend, Al.

It's hard to believe,
we've been friends, 40 years, or more.
Almost a lifetime, but,
I'm not keeping score.

He danced by himself,
in the back of the room,
thinking of memories, happy,
to brighten the gloom.

Saturday nights.
Nights to be alive,
dancing a Waltz,
the Twist, Bop or Jive.

Slipping backward,
into the darkness,
of where I am,
unaware.

Searching as
I am falling,
into darkness,
and I no longer care.

With Gusto

Where is the beginning?
When did it start?
Where love is lost,
in affairs of the heart.

I'm not your solution.
Please let me be,
for I'm being smothered.
Please respect me.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

The bird is bigger than the peak. Nicknamed for its avian shape, the Seagull Nebula is an emission nebula on the night sky that is vast, spanning an angle over five times the diameter of the full moon and over 200 light years. The head of the nebula is catalogued as IC 2177, and the star cluster under its right wing is catalogued as NGC 2343. Consisting of mostly red-glowing hydrogen gas, the Seagull Nebula incorporates some dust lanes and is forming stars. The peak over which this Seagull seems to soar occurs at Pinnacles National Park in California, USA. The featured image is a composite of long exposure images of the background sky and short exposure images of the foreground, all taken consecutively with the same camera and from the same location. Explore Your Universe: Random APOD Generator

Photo by Dheera Venkatraman

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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

When galaxies collide, how many stars are born? For AM1054-325, featured here in a recently released image by the Hubble Space Telescope, the answer is millions. Instead of stars being destroyed as galaxy AM1054-325 and a nearby galaxy circle each other, their gravity and motion has ignited stellar creation. Star formation occurs rapidly in the gaseous debris stretching from AM1054-325’s yellowish body due to the other galaxy’s gravitational pull. Hydrogen gas surrounding newborn stars glows pink. Bright infant stars shine blue and cluster together in compact nurseries of thousands to millions of stars. AM1054-325 possesses over 100 of these intense-blue, dot-like star clusters, some appearing like a string of pearls. Analyzing ultraviolet light helped determine that most of these stars are less than 10 million years old: stellar babies. Many of these nurseries may grow up to be globular star clusters, while the bundle of young stars at the bottom tip may even detach and form a small galaxy.

In better times.

Purify the mind,
whatever the reason,
where I don't care,
about any season.

I want to live,
and be happy again,
be it stormy weather,
or a Spring rain.