NaPoWriMo: StarShade SunFlower

(I am participating in National/Global Poetry Month as I continue to write small poems each morning. – Kevin)

Day Twenty One: StarShade SunFlower

Imagine
this in bloom –
star-shade-sun-flower
nighttime wonder –
its man-made petals
reaching hundreds
of length beyond the eye,
across the far sky,
its stem connected
by link-line to telescope,
a fully-aware
cosmic beauty
finding light by defining dark,
capturing dark by ignoring light,
the star-blocker
life-detector
planet-collector
satellite
always in search
for something
else

Note: this poem was inspired by work of astrophysicist Sarah Seager, working to map exoplanets https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/07/magazine/the-world-sees-me-as-the-one-who-will-find-another-earth.html

(Image: © NASA/JPL/Caltech)

 

Peace (imagining it),
Kevin

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