“The silent stars go by” ~ Phillips Brooks
The stars are silent, always silent, though
If one soars through another auraed star,
A roar must sound. Their particles must go
Right through coronas. Each hot haar must scar
The other but the silence, once profound,
Turns like a scream or screams, until the blank
Of space, that vacuum that chokes all sound.
Surrounding vacuums of suns must yank
The yowling into nothingness. So, still
The stars are soundless as we watch their swan
Songs made of solar matter while they shrill
Together, swan songs of this sort soon gone.
The silent stars go sly since we can not
Experience their howls though harshly hot.
~ Phillip Whidden
by phillipw | Dec 31, 2024 | Uncategorized |