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TOTAL   ECLIPSE   OF   THE   SUN    
 

We watched horrified, awe-struck for hours while the sun died
Slowly, shorn of long golden locks, suffocated by the oncoming moon-rock.
Samson,   blinded.   His eyes  bitten out  - nothing  left -
Devoured, destroyed :  then  completely   consumed as  he died in silence,
In his Stygian cave, as he gave up the ghost, as he left us alone.

Shadow of moon like a hunter’s pitch cloak  encroached with vulture speed .
Birds, even the skylark, silenced,  harking  in their  stark branches 
For the inky  wings of the angel of death, coming - not to Ramases -  to us.
Bleak mark in the east dark: coming fast - it was upon us even as we asked  
What is it? Grey through miles of mist, then raven-darker, as it closed on us, 
Swooped us into its black veil, sunless, lightless, lifeless - where no bird sings,
And our breath stopped, held, unnoticed: and we, bereft, waited in mourning.

Till the sun -Samson- with re-grown bright hair poured out behind the moon,
Miraculously rose from the dead, pushed the black cave-stone into oblivion
And pierced a hole in the veil,  burning  that hole infinitely, gloriously, 
And we were restored to life in the smile of heaven. 
   
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Note:  

A total solar eclipse is an unforgettable sight.  This poem is about  such an 
eclipse which I saw in Weyburn, Saskatchewan  i n 1977. One cannot help 
being struck by the loss of the sun in the daytime. Birds and animals also react 
strangely. I recommend anyone to try to see a total solar eclipse  if it is 
possible. A partial solar eclipse, or a lunar eclipse,  are not remotely as 
spectacular as a  total solar eclipse.

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