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A ten spot or five spot,
a thought in my head.
Was it creative thinking
or something I read?

Original thought,
hard to attain.
Try as hard as I can,
there's doubt, I retain.

Striving to write
words fast and free.
Are they my words
and really about me?

What a joy you are Luda
What a joy to see.
Your spontaneous nature,
your spirit runs free.

I love to use words,
most of the time,
so, they flow smoothly
and will usually rhyme.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Happy Solstice! Today is the December solstice, marking an astronomical beginning of summer in the southern hemisphere and winter in the north. On its yearly trek through planet Earth's skies, at this solstice the Sun reaches its southern most declination, 23.5 degrees south, at 21:48 UTC. About 4 days ago the Sun was near this seasonal southern limit and so only just above the horizon at local noon over Ostersund in central Sweden. This view looking over the far northern lakeside city finds the midday Sun with a beautiful solar ice halo. Naturally occurring atmospheric ice crystals can produce the tantalizing halo displays, refracting and reflecting the sunlight through their hexagonal geometry. Still, with the Sun low and near the horizon in the clear sky, likely sources of the ice crystals producing this intense halo are snow cannons. Operating at a local ski area, the snowmaking machines create a visible plume at the top of the nearby island Froson toward the right side of the panorama.

Photo by Goran Strand

Lonely the nights,
but not the day.
When I see you,
what will I say?

I miss you
in every way,
the sound of laughter,
your smile, a moon ray.

Out the window,
snow on the roof.
Keeping a lookout
for a miniature Hoof.

Cold are the nights,
no need to hurry,
to find a sign
of a Christmas Fairy.

Lovely the view,
snow covered grass,
white capped shrubs,
fluffy blankets
on benches.

Ten thousand eyes
were watching me,
they were on my TV.

Odd how my love,
believed the announcers
can see her.
She cannot discern from
TV and reality.

Two hundred miles,
a drive away
from another night
and one more day,
of missing you.

Born the writer,
following a star,
writing the words,
is who you are.

Choose words wisely,
saying auto not car,
you will define,
the writer you are.

A long journey,
a trip to the Sun,
riding a rocket,
should be fun.

I've traveled for miles,
to find where you are.
Searching the universe,
every planet and star.

When I find you,
happy I'll be,
for you are elusive,
especially for me.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Thor not only has his own day (Thursday), but a helmet in the heavens. Popularly called Thor's Helmet, NGC 2359 is a hat-shaped cosmic cloud with wing-like appendages. Heroically sized even for a Norse god, Thor's Helmet is about 30 light-years across. In fact, the cosmic head-covering is more like an interstellar bubble, blown with a fast wind from the bright, massive star near the bubble's center. Known as a Wolf-Rayet star, the central star is an extremely hot giant thought to be in a brief, pre-supernova stage of evolution. NGC 2359 is located about 15,000 light-years away toward the constellation of the Great Overdog. This remarkably sharp image is a mixed cocktail of data from narrowband filters, capturing not only natural looking stars but details of the nebula's filamentary structures. The star in the center of Thor's Helmet is expected to explode in a spectacular supernova sometime within the next few thousand years. Almost Hyperspace: Random APOD Generator

Photo by Hannah Rochford