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Wooden fence rails,
as far as I could see.
Bleached by the Sun,
How long could it be?

Miles and miles
of wooden fence rail,
impressive it was.
It might never fail.

A beautiful fence,
my looking didn't tire.
Thank the lord,
They didn't use barbed wire.

Barbed wire, the great
ruiner of jeans,
one rip from it,
you had new seams.

Words spin freely,
from out my mind,
about loving another,
and not being unkind.

Slanting rays of topaz,
floating through the air,
promising salvation,
removing the despair.

Sunlight, twinkling through,
branches with mottled leaves,
as flickering shadows dance
with song. In Nature I believe.

Is it a lack of trust,
which I now see?
Is it my unbelief,
about what is to be?

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

This stunning infrared image was released one year ago as the James Webb Space Telescope began its exploration of the cosmos. The view of the early Universe toward the southern constellation Volans was achieved in 12.5 hours of exposure with Webb's NIRCam instrument. Of course the stars with six spikes are well within our own Milky Way. Their diffraction pattern is characteristic of Webb's 18 hexagonal mirror segments operating together as a single 6.5 meter diameter primary mirror. The thousands of galaxies flooding the field of view are members of the distant galaxy cluster SMACS0723-73, some 4.6 billion light-years away. Luminous arcs that seem to infest the deep field are even more distant galaxies though. Their images are distorted and magnified by the dark matter dominated mass of the galaxy cluster, an effect known as gravitational lensing. Analyzing light from two separate arcs below the bright spiky star, Webb's NIRISS instrument indicates the arcs are both images of the same background galaxy. And that galaxy's light took about 9.5 billion years to reach the James Webb Space Telescope.

Berthe Morisot - Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (1841 – 1895) was a French painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. Morisot was married to Eugène Manet, the brother of her friend and colleague Édouard Manet. She was described by art critic Gustave Geffroy in 1894 as one of "les trois grandes dames" (The three great ladies) of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Mary Cassatt.

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Am I losing my mind?
Can it possibly be,
I'm losing my grip
on my own sanity?

I am emotional,
when an old song, I hear,
twists my old heart,
as my eyes form a tear.

If love comes to you,
don't push it away.
Savor the feeling,
'til the end of your day.

Love may appear
in many ways,
knowing not what it is,
creates an emotional haze.

Accept willingly, all the love
you receive,
it will be important later,
when you must grieve.