(Starlink Satellite Trains)
Poets and Lovers
Children and Discoverers
Need the mystery of ancient suns
Instead, we peer around star train satellites
But yes, we also love our internet, phone and TV
Is there a way to balance the sky
With Nature and Space debris?
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Seeking the balance
Is what I’ve sought
My entire adult life
Maybe it’s being Libra Rising
Keeping me on that train of thought
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Equinox is equality
Between night and day
We celebrate with food and dance
For love, friendship and happenstance
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But as we know, our ancestors
Saw autumn as a warning
Especially in northern clime
A sun sending us a signal to work
Because it’s almost harvest time
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Familiar constellations gleam
In the fine night sky
Months of monsoon rain has caused
The Live Oaks to leaf and grow
Giving me only a small sky window
To see the stars I annually know
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But wait, what’s that?
It looks like AMTRAK lost its way
Chugging across the misty night way
As if all the stars fell into a perfect line so nice
Following the leader
Dragging across the sky
Telling us to buy
For greater rapidity and price
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Yes, I know the genius of Elon Musk
I admire him as an engineer and mostly
A member of my Autism tribe
Yes, I know he’s working on painting
The satellites so they do not interfere
With important outer space studies
Or the romance of poets and lovers
Enjoying the penultimate holiday of the
Solar Year
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I truly believe that Nature and Science
Can live and work together in the
Modern century
But perhaps he can change the
Shape of the train
To a radiant 5-point star
And we can exclaim
With drums and guitar
How lovely the harvest
Night is enhanced by modern tech
And I say, Blessed Be…
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© 2022 Clarissa Simmens (ViataMaja)
IMAGE: Starlink Satellites Train
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