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Hale-Bopp
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Nature Broadcasting light from
another lifetime,
plowing between stars
and across lifeless prairies
with no beginning or end,
a vagabond ice storm,
echo of a feverish scream
belted out at
the dawn of creation,
it intrudes upon the weariness
of one blazing blue eye
staring out at the millennia
of darkness.
Distance has frozen this
celebrity of the moment,
golden child of dreamers,
for one gasp in Time's marathon.
Soon to dive into a net
of shivering stars
in another vastness,
this wandering performer
moves on.
The night's choir sings
a little softer now,
and yesterday's news
turns into another day.
Patricia Joan Jones
Reading this as a mythic
Reading this as a mythic interruption, of light that intrudes, dazzles, and then departs.
May this response acknowledge that what we witnessed was not just brightness,
but a kind of quiet grief: the fleeting miracle of being seen, together.
It reflects on the comet not as spectacle, but as elegy—
an arc through darkness that becomes memory as it vanishes.
And yet, for that brief moment, we looked upward and remembered what wonder feels like.
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I am stunned and humbled by
I am stunned and humbled by your sublime interpretation of this poem. I love how you defined the event with sharp precision, breathtaking clarity and your signature, piercing insight.
Your support means more than you know.
magnificent.. all of it
'soon to dive into a net of shimmering stars'!!!!