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Filtering by Tag: meteor shower

August 8: River of Heaven

Kristen Lindquist

Night of falling stars--
how sad the Milky Way
still separates the lovers.
 
Although a month late by traditional reckoning, last night while we were in the backyard watching for falling stars from the Perseid meteor shower, I was thinking about Tanabata. This Japanese festival (also celebrated for centuries in China and Korea) celebrates the one night each year that two lovers, normally kept apart by the Milky Way, are allowed to meet. The two lovers--a weaver and a cowherd--are symbolized by the two bright stars Altair and Vega, visible last night directly over our house on either side of the Milky Way.
 
In this drought
the River of Heaven's low enough
for lovers to cross.
 
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tags Altair, Milky Way, Tanabata, Vega, haiku, meteor shower, stars

April 22: Lyrids

Kristen Lindquist

Tonight the Lyrid meteor shower peaks. But the waxing moon is too bright most of the night. And I'm not the kind of person who can wake before dawn, just after the moon has set, so I can freeze half-awake in the back yard waiting for stars to fall. Those wishes will have to remain unexpressed until the next shower of space dust.

In the moon-washed sky
Big Dipper spills onto our house
unseen meteors.
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tags Big Dipper, haiku, meteor shower, moon