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"Looking back at the Earth, I can't really describe how beautiful it is from 300 miles up. Looking down, you can tell it's a planet. The sky is black. There's just a thin blue ribbon, what we see as blue sky on Earth. You realize how small it is and how fragile the planet is."- Astronaut Mike Good


Just A Thin Blue Ribbon...

With this book, I sit…
attempting to comprehend
the scope and wonder
exposed upon these printed pages...
overwhelming pictures 
of our universe and space.

Where are you Earth?
I see our galaxy, our Milky Way, full color
on this wondrous page,
and I almost miss that tiny speck…
that speck, our world,
bound by just a thin blue ribbon... 
our magnificent, earthly sky.

Yet there you are,
with cars and people bustling here and there…
bridges, trains, skyscrapers, jets…
blue oceans with majestic ships…
the wonders of our age…
you great, important, busy, busy world.

Where are you Earth
amid this cloud of dust?
I find you on this page with straining eye
so lost among the stars, the planets, moons.

My home…my Earth…
a tiny speck…
bound by just a thin blue ribbon
against the black of space
A microscopic grain…
Caught up in cosmic winds with all the rest.


Sandra M. Haight

~4th Place~
Contest: Second Chance - 4
Sponsor: Broken Wings
Judged: 06/03/2016

~NA~
Contest: Just A Thin Blue Ribbon
Sponsor: Rita A. Simmonds
Contest Judged: 05/15/2016

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