| Look to the Sky On days when life demands too much of you, Responsibilities and worries too, So much to bear, you don’t know where to turn, And peace and solace are for what you yearn, Look to the sky, to clouds, and higher still, And watch the birds that glide and soar at will, That turn and dive in the gentle Spring breeze Then stop to rest atop the tallest trees. And watch them as they sit so high and free, Content to sing their song and just to be, They follow the wind wherever it blows, Are ever heedless of our earthly woes. Then join them if only in mind, alone, To visit distant lands, never yet known, And then glide gently back to Earth and land, Ready to tackle all that waits at hand. MW | I Wonder as I Wander I wonder as I wander out under the sky, Why fish have to swim and birds live to fly. Why some have feathers and others have fur I wonder as I wander out under the sky. I wonder as I’m gazing high up in the sky, Far past the clouds, the rainbow, and I try To see what lies far beyond, out in space. I wonder as I’m gazing far beyond the sky. I wonder as I wander, I think and I dream Of flying beyond on the moonlight’s beam Is there a yonder, a place far beyond? I wonder and I ponder, Is it just a dream? I wonder and ponder gazing up at the sky, What wonders beyond our sight may lie. The moon and planets, stars and nebulae, I wonder as I wander out under the sky. MW |
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| Pillars of Creation Pillars of creation They call it, Showing that Even scientists Have imaginations. But they admit It might well be called Pillars of Destruction For what it actually is. MW Just as The prophets of old Would name Stars and planets Astronomers Get to name The solar systems And nebulae They discover. Showing their Imaginative Creative side. And like the Storytellers of old, The movie makers Then run with the Name and image To create their own Colorful rendition. MW  | Webb Telescope Look Through the lens Virtually, Way out there. Beyond our eyes, Beyond ken. And see… What? The scientists Theorize The religious Rhapsodize, The artists Fantasize, But we can But wonder MW Alien Mirror Are you looking at me unseen As I look at you and dream? Earthling to Alien Being, Unknown but still a bond, Together sing. MW One hundred years of wisdom: Is is from one inert mass to another inert mass of matter that life precariously journeys. Change is never ceasing, and ever surprising! But for change, there would be no time. Acceptance, notwithstanding and in spite of, is life's ultimate panacea. All that ends, must have had a beginning. Cosmically viewed, a human life is but a sublime trick of time. All is what it is, because all was what it was. All is flux, not state and change. |
 | I don't wonder, I don't ponder, Though I may whine and pine. |