From the dawn of time, the night sky has captivated human imagination. I was listening the Radio 4's The Essay on this subject. In the series, Astronomer Dr Stuart Clark gave his personal perspective on how we draw meaning from the stars on 5 essays. And I decided to do a series of 5 poems on the subject. This is the third.
Cosmic Revelations
Touching the heavens with sight
Galileo’s telescope there did spy
And saw diamonds in the night
Moons of Jupiter in the sky
Imperfections seen on the moon
In craters and seas of darkness
The crystal spheres not immune
Disenchantment in starkness
No longer the centre of all things
Newton’s clockwork universe
And the cosmos no more sings
Cold stars look down as a curse
And yet it moves, the earth spins round
There is no more that solid ground
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