Tag: space
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Black as loathing beholder
Seven years with Calypso in Ogygia for lost Odysseus, longing Ithaca Screen for eclipse that weaved dream Midnight Font delighting all believers All creeds heeded Fed by heathen light Shed by freezing stars, clothed in illusory flames Distances of ages betwixt. Seven planets willed into the crypt of the void Rilled moon life-devoid, former ocean…
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Incapable star
Axesed stars constellated elevated thronging Moving constantly, but only in their way Upon set course no new marches charting Darting along plotted lines Moving resplendently, faux-independently Inside a box’s confines From afar shone amazing but days Nay, aeons, since it died or truly shined Closening shies to ashes, poor and flaking incapable Cage inescapable, ineluctable,…
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Model Not Territory
Ptolemy’s model followed geocentric principles Earth as sun centre around which spheres rotate uniformly as ships in typhoons, along circles split like zodiac glyphs At the epicentre the sun housing the earth Divinely plotted prescribed orbits to fit solar alignments are called deferents These are fenced and intersected by smaller circular orbits called epicycles By…
Alchemisland 