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23. The Aurora
AURORA
Luminous curtains veil a backdrop of stars.
Swirling green serpents of light,
wingbeats of unseen mythical beings,
dancing spirits take the stage.
Swirling green serpents of light
demystified and explained by science, but
dancing spirits take the stage
in my imagination.
Demystified and explained by science, but
evidence of mystery and magic
in my imagination.
Luminous curtains veil a backdrop of stars.
©Mary Lee Hahn, 2014
I wanted to try a pantoum today. It seemed the perfect twisting swirling form for The Aurora Borealis. I'm not sure this quite captured the feeling I wanted, but there are only so many hours in a day and that stack of papers I've been carrying around for...um...too long...needs to be graded!
My students are writing with me again this week. Hopefully by week's end I'll have some of their poems to share.
Carol gives the mountain a voice in her Mt. Everest poem.
Kevin "surfs the solar wind" in his Aurora poem.
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