Lots to notice/like here, but I am particularly moved by the blending of sentences/stanzas, replicating the symbiotic relationship of sun and moon working together to create such a momentous experience. Clouds covered much of the visual highlights of the New Orleans partial version we saw, but a rare silence and awe still united birds, insects and people there.
This was exactly what it was like. Except the street preacher that started doing the Revelations fire and brimstone stuff right in the middle of the totality, that dude was trying to ruin the church for the rest of us. (Everyone brushed him off and the church concluded in polite social accordance to the awe).
I was literally shaking. The closest thing to a spiritual experience was hearing the crowd roar once it began. I imagined all those totality roars, all throughout history. Man. 2199 is the next total eclipse for the U.P. of Michigan. If reincarnation is real, then I'm coming back for that one too.
Absolutely - the birds teach us well - and I was fortunate to view totality in northern Maine. It was a rare wondrous moment of church with all who were there ☀️
Austin Keon invited readers to share a favorite eclipse pic. Great ones. Funny. Focus on people and pets. My fave was a raven soaring, a there do so automatically, across a partial sun. Yum.
Lots to notice/like here, but I am particularly moved by the blending of sentences/stanzas, replicating the symbiotic relationship of sun and moon working together to create such a momentous experience. Clouds covered much of the visual highlights of the New Orleans partial version we saw, but a rare silence and awe still united birds, insects and people there.
Nice one
"I realized that
those who saw the eclipse,
the total, had created a four-
minute church"
This was exactly what it was like. Except the street preacher that started doing the Revelations fire and brimstone stuff right in the middle of the totality, that dude was trying to ruin the church for the rest of us. (Everyone brushed him off and the church concluded in polite social accordance to the awe).
Love it!!
I was literally shaking. The closest thing to a spiritual experience was hearing the crowd roar once it began. I imagined all those totality roars, all throughout history. Man. 2199 is the next total eclipse for the U.P. of Michigan. If reincarnation is real, then I'm coming back for that one too.
So love this. Thank you.
Since 2017 Albuquerque has had two total eclipses and one 75% eclipse, each one a completely different experience.
Your poem takes me so deep, down, and all around. I have a much less deep poem on Substack called, Eclipsed.
https://jeff515p0.substack.com/p/eclipsed?utm_source=substack&utm_content=feed%3Arecommended%3Acopy_link
Amen
Beautiful
Lyrical and beautiful. Thank you.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️Thank you
You must know birds very well
Beautiful and although you didn’t view the eclipse in “ real time” you were still share its essence with us .
As someone who was unable to watch the eclipse, I'm glad for the poem. I feel like I get to share the feeling, without ever having seen it myself.
Absolutely - the birds teach us well - and I was fortunate to view totality in northern Maine. It was a rare wondrous moment of church with all who were there ☀️
Austin Keon invited readers to share a favorite eclipse pic. Great ones. Funny. Focus on people and pets. My fave was a raven soaring, a there do so automatically, across a partial sun. Yum.
.. baloney 🦎🏴☠️