On The Profundity of Meteors
1833 Meteor Shower, wood engraving by Adolf Vollmy c1888 You have pierced my soul With the voices of angels And the drone of ancient chants I cannot hide from your beauty It shatters and lays bare my heart I have no protection from the onslaught Of the battering ram against my broken bones My body quivers and dies I rejoice in the conquering The Light of Light The Sound of Sound Emanates within and without I am no more LiNdA
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Scene from Guy Maddin’s film, “Archangel” To taste the wine Is to drink the night And Darkness falls While words drip silently Upon a frozen breast And the flames are fanned As an urgent call to arms To this shadowy place That only light from Flickering candles Reveals two lovers Clasped in a dance of death Immortal souls Freed from their chains LiNdA
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Drops of rain Louder than the jungle call They fall And thunder Awakening the sky With its cry Brings the heat rising From damp earth Giving birth When all remains to be seen And all that is left is understood To go for naught or for good Then the time has come To relinquish the power Of the Monkey Hour LiNdA
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On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material erupted into space. This image, taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory, shows the breathtaking coronal mass ejection (CME) 93 million miles 745 miles per second It would almost seem In the blink of an eye You travel on your solar flare Arriving at my doorstep Before I’ve had time To put down my book Or earmark the page Explaining E = mc2 And other important theories Of the Universe But the event at hand Is much more pressing And appears to be based On the Laws of Physics Whereby a plume Of plasma will eject From a superheated Celestial body However, these particles Won’t take three days To reach us here For we have already been scorched LiNdA...
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You descend like the mist A blanket, cool and moist Grey and whispering A brume rolling in Passions quietly speaking Do not break the spell From the window A strange light flickers Not from candles Shadows play against the wall To tell the story In hushed breaths A long ago love Born before the dawn of the Milky Way Bursts from the galaxy There is a full moon, unseen For this night Belongs to the clouds LiNdA
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I paint your face With the rays of the sun Using colors only of gray The shadow of the mountains Plays across your face And a brief stab of sunlight Illuminates The flickering tongues Creeping down the valley Open the yawning mouth Finding entry within The gold and yellow Flames ignite And awaken LiNdA
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