Dear WordPress readers,
this looks so much better on my site
……………………….another
potent political symbol
shifts over our heads.
the message abandoned
the magnetic storm.
there’s an extremely low
chance that any
will reach
us.
after all,
the ground’s mostly ocean
mostly unpopulated
small towns, woods and fields.
but keep an eye for the off chance
heaven comes in
over your head.
all the colours that you’ll see
as you turn in the morning’s bright.
it won’t hurt, it will be
like a feather,
…………………………………………..or a leaf floating off
spectacular.
Image: Port Kembla, old access cover. Posted at Dverse, the poet’s pub where Paul asks us to write something soulful (this kinda fits). Tiangong-1 is due to de-orbit on April 1 2018 +/- a few days. Follow its final hours here. Check out Studio Réal‘s post on the same subject. And here’s Gill Scott-Herron making a related point.
Peter Frankis writes 
The picture is so interesting. I’m Shizuoka Japan the access covers look like brooches due to the colours and designs on them. The last three stanzas are so very true!
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Googled them, they’re just beautiful – far too pretty for their earthy purpose. 🙂
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Yeppers. But that is the Japanese for you!
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Oh my goodness, I looked this up and saw a photo of some astronauts in the module….hopefully they are not on the one up in the air! Saw somewhere else that NASA suspects it doesnt have a flight plan for re-entry. Ack. Anyway, a very thought provoking response to the prompt…………yikes.
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Look, up in the sky. It’s not a bird or a plane… After googling that, I must say I never there was so much space junk falling around us, aye
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Jesus – niiiice.
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Look on the bright side: the price of scrap metal isn’t falling.
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Ha.
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A wonderful piece Peter. The links were so interesting. Gil Scott Heron was so so good to hear again. I hope that when heaven falls there are no folk in the vicinity.
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“it won’t hurt, it will be
like a feather … ” Perfect.
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Thanks Sue.
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Love the thought of what happens above us, it used to capture our interest, now it’s almost routine with the satellites above us.
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Oh yeah – so we’d better be ready when they fall 🙂
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Wonderful!
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