The distance to our
Milky Way's other side...
how far's that?
About Masago
- Masago
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- From "The Haiku Anthology" I became interested in Haiku and I have since written numerous haiku, senyru, and tanka. "Masago", my haiku pen-name, means "grain(s) of sand" in Japanese. I have recently started learning Esperanto and Japanese. A few years ago I developed a new eastern verse form which we now call 'Renhai'.
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9 comments:
1047. A Long Way
The distance to our
Milky Way's other side...
how far's that?
Link with 1046: Celestial.
[Light from the opposite side of the Milky Way would have traveled over 18 billion miles and have taken about 90 thousand years to get here. Who can really fathom how far that is?
Of course, light from the opposite side of our galaxy never gets to us as it is blocked by the incredible dense cluster of stars at the galaxy's centre.]
starry night
such a long way
to spring
Wow. Mind boggling!? Maybe it's our thoughts which can do it, in the twinkling of an eye. Of course, just a thought!:)
somehow
we still have to ask these questions
even though science has an answer
the question is an emotional/soul-searching one
and you capture that here
lovely
Ah, this involuntary memory!
"As the heavens seem so far
Now who will paint the midnight star?" - Enya, of course
perhaps you need infinite improbability drive ;)
Bill: Excellent! I love it.
Borut: Ours thoughts can indeed hurdle the seemingly unhurdleable...but reality is a patient friend. :-)
Floots: Yes, science does have some answers, not always satisfying... Thanks.
Dana-Maria: Nice. Thanks.
Polona: Improbability alright... :-)
did anyone say "far out."
Pamela: Very far out.
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