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Markus43 — So Many Lights
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Published: 2019-08-23 14:14:38 +0000 UTC; Views: 576; Favourites: 107; Downloads: 0
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We try beyond our limitsTo drown out the stars
Our little lights beaming back messages
Look at our significance!
Stars scurry into hiding
Without fear of self-worth
Without care or interest
But full of curiosity
They ask moon,
Who is this?
Are not our lights
Sufficient for them?
Moon laughs.
"You know, we used to be.
Now, some have never seen our true glory.
And when they do, they are forever changed.
They do not deserve our scorn,
Or pity.
They will be ok.
Give them time,
They are new at this."
I grew up in the suburbs of LA and have always lived with the veil of human generated light blocking out our wonderful universe and its personal messages. There is much to learn in the places that reveal our true existence. Just by being quiet, watching a shooting star or distant satellite, we learn a little about our reality. The perspective of the totality of our being within this beautiful cosmos should motivate us to a tearful joy.
Celebrate your place in this universe.
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Comments: 24
Thank you for this beautiful image!
It came just as the Perseid Meteor shower passed its peak.
Sometimes we're so caught up with life that we tend to miss nature's wonders...I hope more people start to appreciate night sky like you did.
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Our sky gives us a proper perspective, doesn't it?
Thank you for your time and comment
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wonderful, and I know how difficult it is to have such an extended range.
eugene
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beautiful image and great words, Mark.
we lived in a place with a dark sky for ten years, to walk out at night and see meteors any given night, and the milky way, was amazing.
I grew up in a place like that, actually, but then there was a long time in or near cities. which is where I am back to now. glad to be here. but I know about those skies.
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there is a thought rumbling through philosophical circles that postulates that we are actually living in a simulation...(another version of theism without a supreme deity)....
Looking at the milky way makes us go there.....when we have the time.
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I've seen that written up here and there... looking deep into the sky somehow fits with it.
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oh, love the poetry, how it ends. they are new at this
the burning moon and the shy star, lovely
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thank you Hanan...interesting to me is the woman's voice for the moon in my head while I mused this out...
I don't think I've ever given the moon a voice before, but was always under the impression that is was a "man-in-the-moon"...
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maybe it's the tender tone in which it adresses the star?
maybe you were influenced by other languages? in french and italian it's feminine. la luna...
in arabic though it's a boy, and the sun is a girl
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