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Astronomer

I wander all alone and play with pebbles on the beach,
and wonder at the Milky Way which other men may reach.
Though thither I won’t wend my way, I try my best, I teach
to others how the planets play; upon their orbits preach.

What seems a complex interplay of matter dark and light,
as magnet must attract â€" I stay for days before stars bright
a billion light years far away, and find therein delight,
dwell on gravitational sway on how mankind well might
discover, reinvent, doorway beyond the Moon and Mars,
and foray further far to lay its seed among the stars.

From Hubble's bubble telescope to images online,
from NASA exploration's scope and information mine,
to Voyager myope, the mind curves off from fixed straight line -
thought processes must cope with dark hole, quasar, quark or dine
on solar storm or grope with RNA's helix grapevine
unknown to sect or pope or falsehood's pantomime,
to those who slouch about and mope, ignoring the sublime.
Imagine bio-allotropes which ‘human’ redefine,
imagine man’s historic hopes confronting space and time …

Meanwhile, on Earth, the bill to pay is high â€" pollution palls â€"
factory volcano grey: short-sightedness appals

(24 June 1975 1st stanza 24 August 2006 2nd 16 April 2009 3rd stanza 16 April 2009 robi3_0101 XXX_JNX See Brian Waller Procter: Pre-Existence Previous title The Astronomer)

poem by Jonathan Robin
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