Telescope
by Mark R Slaughter
Why?
Frozen fingers fiddled on the focus
Dew dripped
Dark hindered
Constellations laughed –
Not least that I was daft –
And made me wonder:
“Why?”
As nostrils dripped, charts rung damp,
I tripped across the tripod,
Swore – either that or cry!
You’d HAVE to question:
“Why?”
The once-hot chocolate lost its charm,
I dropped an eyepiece,
Scratched a filter,
Neighbours’ lights were off and on
And on and off, to goad a sigh;
I’m asking loudly:
“Why?”
And then I found it –
O! the view; behold! the need for depth of night! –
These beauteous heavens out of sight
From straining naked eyes.
Imagination fires a flame –
Sanity free of any blame –
This childish verve to never tame:
My telescope is not a game –
It answers all the “Why’s?”
Copyright ©: Mark R Slaughter
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Archaic Torso Of Apollo by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Umbrella by Mike Yuan
- Man in a Window by Ralph Angel
- O You by Satish Verma
- You Look Up Pictures of Icelandic Ponies by Ruth Madievsky
- On A Miser (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Life, wait for me by Martin Zakovski
- Two Songs From A Play by William Butler Yeats
- Lucky by Thomas Lux
- The Grave of the Hundered Head by Rudyard Kipling
- Glory Of Women by Siegfried Sassoon
- Act of Union by Seamus Heaney
- The End by Rabindranath Tagore
- Untitled X by Yunus Emre
- Вероника Тушнова – Ты все еще тревожишься — что будет
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
