Memories of Snow

Planetary Inspiration

A Polaroid of the Moon

Embraced by night
the sun's mirror lays
frozen in timeless splendor.

Seas and oceans,
waterless and still,
are dark blotches against
Luna's light kissed heights.

Poet's Note: ▶︎

I wrote this on 11 Sultan 152 B.E. I took an astronomy class at UNLV that year. One of the things we had to do was take a Polaroid of the full moon. I don't know what happened to the picture. I think it might have been lost in one of my moves.

Saturn: My First View

Perfect white pearl
Encircled by mother-of-pearl rings
Accompanied
By four glittering moonstones
Adorn the ebony throat of night

Poet's Note: ▶︎

This was written sometime in 145 B.E. As a results of seeing Saturn through a telescope.