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I scream for tomorrow,
which may never come,
as life is a tragedy and
we could succumb.

To lose a life,
so precious to me,
from neglect
must never be.

Yet here I sit
amongst those who lied,
not understanding,
if she chose and died.

I tired when I heard,
"Who are you?"
Then I realize,
she doesn't know, can't undo.

How I wish I could
hear those words again.
It would help me
to reduce the pain.

My eyes are moist,
as my nose runs loose,
how can I move on
from here? Can I choose?

Winds, a blast,
rattling against
a windowpane,
rain trickles,

over sash
and sill.
We should wait,
never will.

The rain splattered
the river danced,
as rain fell it was
Nature's romance.

Air to rain,
water to soil,
makes me happy
and my blood to boil.

"Supporters are calling on the school to reinstate what would have been 87-year-old artist’s first retrospective in the US...a show, titled Centers of Energy .... according to a missive penned by a board member of the  artist’s foundation, Madison Gordon, the school abruptly canceled the show via email in late December due to “safety concerns....The circulating petition, and emails reviewed by Hyperallergic, suggest that the university’s decision is related to Halaby’s vocal pro-Palestine advocacy, including her social media activity". More at Hyperallergic ➜    

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Named for a forgotten constellation, the Quadrantid Meteor Shower puts on an annual show for planet Earth's northern hemisphere skygazers. The shower's radiant on the sky lies within the old, astronomically obsolete constellation Quadrans Muralis. That location is not far from the Big Dipper asterism, known to some as the Plough, at the boundaries of the modern constellations Bootes and Draco. The Big Dipper "handle" stars are near the upper right corner in this frame, with the meteor shower radiant just below. North star Polaris is toward the top left. Pointing back toward the radiant, Quadrantid meteors streak through the night in this skyscape from Jangsu, South Korea. The composite image was recorded in the hours around the shower's peak on January 4, 2024. A likely source of the dust stream that produces Quadrantid meteors was identified in 2003 as an asteroid.

Photo by 염범석 Yeom Beom-seok

Here I stand,
all dressed in black,
thinking I'm the reincarnation,
of Johnny Cash.

Boots on my feet,
black hat on my head,
when someone yelled,
"Hey, Johnny is dead.

I was shocked
when I heard the news.
I went to happy hour,
scarfing down some booze.

It was early in the morning,
about half past five.
I was running on empty,
trying to stay alive.

I received a call saying,
Hey, I think you are late,
for this important event,
your first blind date.

Wait a minute, I said,
before he hung up the phone,
"Who is this person? am I
to go all alone?"

He said of course you are,
is that too hard to understand?
Well, I went where I was told to,
and it was my very first one-night stand.

If you've read this far,
then you know I'm
not talking about me,
merely writing about a fantasy

Sweet she was
like no one I've met.
She was very special,
she will be hard to forget.

Danced with her once,
Twas like walking a trail.
I knew all the moves,
yet I still failed.

Failed to capture
a heart so sweet.
Wish I had a do over,
for now, I must retreat.

Stars collided,
in daylight, bright,
with so much force,
day turned to night.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

This colorful skyscape spans about three full moons across nebula rich starfields along the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy toward the royal northern constellation Cepheus. Near the edge of the region's massive molecular cloud some 2,400 light-years away, bright reddish emission region Sharpless (Sh)2-155 is at the center of the frame, also known as the Cave Nebula. About 10 light-years across the cosmic cave's bright walls of gas are ionized by ultraviolet light from the hot young stars around it. Dusty bluish reflection nebulae, like vdB 155 at the left, and dense obscuring clouds of dust also abound on the interstellar canvas. Astronomical explorations have revealed other dramatic signs of star formation, including the bright reddish fleck of Herbig-Haro (HH) 168. At the upper left in the frame, the Herbig-Haro object emission is generated by energetic jets from a newborn star.

Photo by Gábor Galambos