Seasonal Skies of Wonder

Skies of wondrous starry nights all aglow with shining lights, we look up to you with awe thus to inspiration draw… Fortunate we earthlings are on a planet not bizarre, close enough but not too far from our solar system’s star beaming its apricity, swirled in synchronicity to nocturnal shimmerings lit by lunar glimmerings as the moon reveals her face gazing down at us from space… (Though we know how shine those rays still her luminescent ways stir our fancies, as in dreams…) Poets with their reams of themes— tragic, magic, comical, even astronomical— marvel as stargazers do with celestial aperçu at galactic scenes on high querying ‘where, when, and why?’… This our orbit round the sun of twelve months again has run out of time in earthly flight, and a new one looms in sight. Looking back, I’ve seen some dreams lose their way, or so it seems. There’s been gladness, sadness, fear. Now we face a coming year… Skies of wondrous starry nights all aglow with shining lights, may we keep your stellar view in our ken, beyond the blue, with musings, self-reflective, lest humans lose perspective! ~ Harley White < December 2016 >