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
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- Making Light Of It by Philip Levine
- Sonnet 06 poem – John Milton poems
- Владимир Британишский – В болотах севера Евразии
- Women’s Harvest Song poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
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- Childe Roland To The Dark Tower Came by Robert Browning
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня про правого инсайда
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- Streets Of Teal by Vaishnavi Prakash
- Василий Жуковский – Герой
- Алексей Жемчужников – Сняла с меня судьба
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- When the Lad for Longing Sigh poem – A. E. Housman
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).
