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Occasional Poetry - 48. Gravity and Music of the Spheres
i>Two more rubayats in a series. Light fare for early autumn. All the errors are mine, of course.
Music of the Spheres
The stars were high when I awoke,
Orion hunted, Lyra spoke,
and while the earth slept hushed and still,
King Cephas held his good queen's cloak.
Now as they pass in their quadrille,
accomp'nied by the whippoorwill,
Cassiopeia slowly turns
in time with every mournful trill.
The dance celestial, soon one learns,
continues, though the star that burns
could yet have died not long before
when dinosaurs stomped through the ferns.
Now light through space is faster, more
than any astral troubadour,
yet echoes ancient we convoke
as one another we explore.
Gravity
Oh, Newton's law of gravity,
the ultimate depravity,
attractive bodies, he decreed
depend on mass, not suavity.
Not all my wit or charm, indeed
will make attraction to concede
somebody might just drift my way,
no matter how I beg or plead.
The apple fell, in Newton's day
proportioned to its square, they say;
the earth with mass much greater still,
accelerates the apple's play.
So oft I took the bitter pill,
no body fell on me, until
I increased my concavity
and now our love may overspill.
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