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When you face the World,
like you always did.
Finding a new lover,
of me you would rid.

Remembering old men,
you see every day.
Tell him to leave,
Just go away.

It won't be a great loss,
once I am gone.
You will find another,
to sing your sweet song.

A book,
a place,
where
words dwell.

A book,
a collection
of words,
stories to tell.

A book,
a library,
of reading,
don't yell.

A room full of goodbyes
is what I see, in the Memory
Care facility, as family members,
come to visit loved ones.
A sadness permeates the air,
as small white lies are delivered,
by those leaving.
See you next week or I'll be back
to see you soon.
An unsavory situation? No, just
a way to say your goodbye to
a loved one.

I'll write about items,
which life brings.
Write about treasures,
riches, diamonds and rings.

Why write about the
wonder of things,
when happiness should be
about love and heart strings.

There just isn't a masterpiece,
left in this old mind,
unless those jumbled words,
have material I can find.

Words a tumble,
start to flow,
spiraling downward,
someplace below.

Old fashioned words,
such as thee and thou,
falling slowly with,
what, where and how.

A mass of words,
piled layers high.
in my mind they
have reached the sky.

Words as warm,
like bees in the skies,
words a tumble
love moves and flies.

Love glows,
above the gloom,
removing a coolness,
from the room.

Love can dispel,
so much hate,
yet here we are,
in a war we must abate.

Why the hate,
why the lies,
why the innocent's,
mournful sighs.
.
Is this what life,
seems to be
All the bombing,
indiscriminately.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

That bright beacon you've seen rising in the east just after sunset is Jupiter. Climbing high in midnight skies, our Solar System's ruling gas giant was at its 2023 opposition, opposite the Sun in planet Earth's sky, on November 2. But only a few days earlier, on October 28, the Moon was at its own opposition. Then both Full Moon and Jupiter could share this telephoto field of view. The celestial scene is composed from two exposures, one long and one short, blended to record bright planet and even brighter Moon during that evening's partial lunar eclipse. Moonlight shining through the thin, high clouds over northern Italy creates the colorful iridescence and lunar corona. Look closely and you'll also spot some of Jupiter's Galilean moons.

Photo by Giorgia Hofer

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Named for the southern constellation toward which most of its galaxies can be found, the Fornax Cluster is one of the closest clusters of galaxies. About 62 million light-years away, it's over 20 times more distant than our neighboring Andromeda Galaxy, but only about 10 percent farther along than the better known and more populated Virgo Galaxy Cluster. Seen across this three degree wide field-of-view, almost every yellowish splotch on the image is an elliptical galaxy in the Fornax cluster. Elliptical galaxies NGC 1399 and NGC 1404 are the dominant, bright cluster members toward the bottom center. A standout, large barred spiral galaxy, NGC 1365, is visible on the upper right as a prominent Fornax cluster member.

Photo by Marcelo Rivera

The joy I feel,
depends upon,
the amount of guilt,
I carry.

Guilt is non quantifiable,
yet I seem to carry this
burden with me.
It's not intentional.

It is reprehensible to me,
when I feel so helpless,
unable to do anything,
except provide comfort.