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Valerie Valdary Higgins

"In The Light of Einstein" by Valerie Valdary Higgins

SF&F Picture 6 out of 13 by Valerie Valdary Higgins
 
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A poetical description of life in a human colony on the moon Ge which orbits the planet Poppins lit by a star called Einstein.
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Our sun appears much smaller in the sky,
In theory there is a different colour to the light,
But its dangerous to look directly at the sun,
And the human eye is swift to adapt its sight.

Hours at a time you could easily forget,
That Sol is shining the other side of the Milky Way,
But each clipse eve and each clipse dawn is a reminder,
That here on Ge it is hard to define a day.

The day by official definition,
On Ge is about as long as eighteen months on the Earth.
By rights we should be alternately burned and frozen,
But Planet Poppins shelters us from cold and dearth.

For ten hours in every thirty,
The eclipse of Einstein by Poppins shelters us from glare.
Nightside is a dark winter longer than any faced on Earth.
The light of Poppins makes life just possible there.

For Good Day then we say G'dOrbit,
Say sunb'ind not sunset (clipse eve sun goes behind not down).
Clipsends serves us for sunrise as Einstein comes back out.
True Dawn brings wild springtime celebrations to town.

We use our days as calendar years,
True year on Ge is eight hundred and fifty two Earth years long.
Einstein is a blue star which is burning fiercer than Sol,
Poppins' orbit is wide so sunlight is no more strong.

Practically perfect conditions,
Circling a gas giant upon an Earth sized moon, for life to thrive.
We work and play and live our lives in the light of Einstein.
And tell tales of Earth, Moon and Sol in our silver hive.
←- Jealousy | Launch of Naiad Sulis -→

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13 Aug 2008:-) Barbara J. Wickham
Another sci-fi poem!

I really like the play on word like sunb’ind for sunset and clipsend for sunrise, etc. It really makes one think about the practical origin of words we use to unconsciously everyday.
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About 'In The Light of Einstein':
 • Status: OK
 • Created by: :-) Valerie Valdary Higgins
 • Copyright: ©Valerie Valdary Higgins. All rights reserved!

 • Keywords: Moons, Planet, Poem, Colony
 • Categories: Extrateresstial, Alien Life Forms, Techno, Cyber, Technological
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