Ten Reasons to be Nocturnal

10 Reasons to be Nocturnal:

  1. Starry starry night. Paint my canvas
    with star trails and accursed contrails
  2. One cannot see
    In the night
    Beyond his feet
    Meditative Bliss
  3. Ghosts lurk in the shadows
    Perhaps a rains will come
  4. Lights of passing cars
    Turned into rivers
    At ISO 200
    Streaming to the ocean
    At the edge of the frame
  5. Sometimes I eat
    dates while I shoot
    alien spacecraft
  6. When the world ends
    Perhaps it will look like this
    A billion stars is only a tenth
    of a millionth
    of the universe
  7. It’s really cold
    Focusing leneses
    In lieu of focusing bodyheat
    Mirror lock-up
    Avoid shiver shake
  8. Eight A.M.
    Is hours away
    Skies full of sattelites
    Which are gone with the light of day
  9. An once upon a time
    I even stayed up
    past midnight in the mountains
    Orion spoke to me
    “On tops of mountains
    as everywhere to hopeful souls
    it is always morning”
    Orion too
    reads Thoreau
  10. Once upon a time
    Far far away
    Somebody shot the night sky with an alien camera
    Perhaps that light
    thousands of years
    later
    is in this photograph.

karstosis
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~ by Karsten on March 4, 2008.

2 Responses to “Ten Reasons to be Nocturnal”

  1. I like it……pleasantly surprised, not what i expected.

  2. Very nice one sir, fun prose, great photo…

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