Red Mars and white Venus are about to set in the west, and up in the south is red Antares, the heart of the Scorpion.
Category: literature
White and red
There is busy solar-system activity in the after-sunset sky
The moving Moon went up the sky
Mad as a March Hare
Sunday March 14 is the second Sunday in March, so Americans are directed to twist their clocks forward by an hour, into a long summer of Daylight-Shifted Time. Continue reading “Mad as a March Hare”
Vesta, vests, and the fallibility of poets
Everyone’s favorite asteroid, Vesta, is taking its apparent retrograde path, across the hind leg of Leo the lion, as we pass nearest to it.
Continue reading “Vesta, vests, and the fallibility of poets”
Back to the Earthrise Photo
There was a Muse for each kind of literature Continue reading “Back to the Earthrise Photo”
Of Frogs and Stars
The limerick’s less than idyllic
And yet there are rules to this lyric.
It needs at all times
Three ridiculous rhymes
And a meter quite smoothly dactylic. Continue reading “Of Frogs and Stars”
Astrolimerick of the day
Observing the planet called Saturn,
You see a remarkable pattern.
At first it appears
Like a head with two ears
But the pattern is flatter’n that ‘un. Continue reading “Astrolimerick of the day”
Hail, Venus!
As the brightest of planets reappears, my book about Venus the planet and Venus the goddess also rises into view. Continue reading “Hail, Venus!”
Jupiter, Saturn, Moon. amd Time
As Jupiter continues to catch up with Saturn, the Moon comes by, this time passing Continue reading “Jupiter, Saturn, Moon. amd Time”