Slipping Backward
• 02/21/24 at 02:13PM •Slipping backward,
into the darkness,
of where I am,
unaware.
Searching as
I am falling,
into darkness,
and I no longer care.
Slipping backward,
into the darkness,
of where I am,
unaware.
Searching as
I am falling,
into darkness,
and I no longer care.
With Gusto
Here I am, once more,
it is 5 in the morning
of the day before.
Don't you worry, it is just me
ridding my mind, peripherally.
The words rattle out, many now
as I have fallen into lunacy.
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.
Beneath the star lit,
ice clear sky,
the leaves of summer,
fall and die.
The piles of yellows,
turn to brown,
where decay and rot,
breastfeed the ground.
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.
From out of the country,
the new year did bring,
a new direction,
and a brand-new Spring.
Long will I remember,
when involving the past,
how days of Summer,
would never last.
Then into Autumn,
Summer to fall,
of multi-color leaves,
the most colorful of all.
Winter is beautiful,
especially with snow,
a Holiday season,
with presents and mistletoe.
And it goes on.
A short burst of words,
down to this page
with the noisiest pen,
I've ever engaged.
Words continue to pop,
in this old head of mine.
Some new words perhaps,
but mostly quite dead.
Dead from the Latin
of so long ago.
Off in the night ,
I will soon flee,
for I believe Death
is now chasing me.
You know who you are,
your style is unique,
as your smile still beguiles,
so this is how I speak.
I love you,
the way you are,
you have become,
a nice shining star.
I love to see your bright smile,
when you greet others; who you beguile,
with your charm and a sweet hello
For me it is why I love you so.
A love coming from what I see
a love of life; a love so platonically.