Lockdown Living – Housekeeping

To try to make the poems more accessible I’m building a gallery page so I need to re publish the first 4 poems I wrote for NaPoWriMo

April 1 – The challenge to look at things differently, reminded me that what we see is subjective and that other organisms and devices have different sensitivities to electromagnetic radiation. This moved me to consider closed and open mindsets.

Limitations

Oh yes there’s stars and planets

Yes, the universe is vast

But it’s limits are not infinite

Think about that Big Bang blast

Meteor Showers and Icy Comets

Pass close by predictably

And if you have a dark sky

You can see our Galaxy

Thanks to Physics

Our exploring goes beyond the naked eye

Binoculars and telescopes

Their targets magnify

Now we can ‘view’’ beyond our extent

Of the visible light range

The electromagnetic spectrum

Now yields images most strange

False colour ones prepared from X-rays

Infra-Red and UV too

And massive radio dishes

Help us build on what we knew

Telescopes beyond the atmosphere

‘See’ Pulsars, Quasars and Black Holes

We stand on the Shoulders of Giants

Moving our discovery goals

And we’ve probed our Solar System

Flyby, Lander and Mars Rover

Sending back their precious data

To be processed and chewed over

And yet fifty years later

There are those that still deny

Our human race stepped on the Moon

Conspiracy! They cry

As for intelligent life elsewhere

“There’s nothing else but here”

We’re allowed our own opinion

But if I may bend your ear

Just imagine that there’s two small fish

Down in the ocean depth

Limited in exploration

Are they correct to accept

Their mutual conclusion

That outside their watery zone

There nothing more of interest

‘Of that we’ve always known’

Ralph 01/4/21