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Here sit I,
alone in the room,
mind mired down
in mental gloom.
Feelings I have,
forcasting the doom,
which I feel is
cold as a tomb.

A golden orb,
a mottled Sun.
Is this the way
the World Begun?

Downward spiral,
began the day,
as common sense
has gone away.

Spiraled ribbons of sanity
have been compromised,
for those who notice,
changes, which came over me.

A careless use, a sentence break,
using words which atrophy.
Mattering not, what path to take,
losing my touch with humanity.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Fireflies flash along a moonlit countryside in this scene taken on the night of December 13/14 from southern Uruguay, planet Earth. On that night meteors fell in the partly cloudy skies above during the annual Geminid meteor shower. Frames recorded over a period of 1.5 hours are aligned in the composite image made with the camera facing south. That direction was opposite the shower's radiant toward the north and so the Geminid meteor streaks appear to converge at an antiradiant below the southern horizon. The shower's apparent radiant (and antiradiant) is just due to perspective though. As Earth sweeps through the dust trail of mysterious asteroid 3200 Phaethon, the dust grains that create the Geminid shower meteors are really moving along parallel tracks. They enter Earth's atmosphere traveling at about 22 kilometers per second.

Photo by Fefo Bouvier

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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

What does Comet Leonard look like from space? Today's featured image from Origin.Space's Yangwang-1 space telescope shows not only the currently bright comet -- but several other space delights as well. Taken in optical and ultraviolet light, C/2021 A1 (Leonard) is visible with an extended tail near the image center as it appeared five days ago. The Earth is visible on the lower right, while layers of the Earth's atmosphere glow diagonally from the lower left to the upper right. The trails of two satellites can be seen in front of a myriad of distant stars that dot the background on the upper left. The faint bands of light running diagonally from the lower right to the upper left are auroras. Finally, the image also caught a meteor streaking just below the airglow. To see Comet Leonard yourself from the Earth's surface during the next few days, look toward the western horizon just after sunset or just before sunrise.

Photo by Zhuoxiao WangOrigin.Space

I am transparent
as an opaque glass.
My mind still cloudy,
with words I amass.
Words of frustration,
not joyful to me,
but words dispicable,
is what I see.

I do not need this
at my point in life.
Enough, already,
she is still my wife.

Can you come the morrow,
at a quarter past three.
I'll be alone,
she's sitting next to me.

I sit and I write,
using paper and pen.
My favorite being,
a Pentel Energel with
metal tip, 0.7 ball tip.
I use refills,
to reduce the cost
and have new bodies,
in case one becomes lost.
I write in a Notebook,
capturing my mind's view,
as these words, now flow,
outward to be read by you.
Thank you for reading,
and the comments you make,
for my imagination lives on
with your love's sweet intake.

A pinpoint of light,
comes from afar.
Is it the Moon
or a wandering star?
Light begins breaking,
across clouds, piled high,
as fluffy pillows,
in a cotton candy sky.
Comes the Dawn,
spreading it's charm,
of a new day,
being Sunny and warm.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

To some, it may look like a beehive. In reality, the featured image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a cosmic pillar of dust, over two-light years long, inside of which is Herbig-Haro 666 -- a young star emitting powerful jets. The structure lies within one of our galaxy's largest star forming regions, the Carina Nebula, shining in southern skies at a distance of about 7,500 light-years. The pillar's layered outline are shaped by the winds and radiation of Carina's young, hot, massive stars, some of which are still forming inside the nebula. A dust-penetrating view in infrared light better shows the two, narrow, energetic jets blasting outward from a still hidden infant star. Open Science: Browse 2,600+ codes in the Astrophysics Source Code Library