04-02-2025, 06:20 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-02-2025, 06:21 AM by RiverNotch.)
As did the sun herald the seasons
by every passage through the ecliptic,
so did the stars by their aureola
fashion the psyche, or so went the laws
held with conviction even by Newton,
likewise the birthright of Galileo,
Kopernik, Kepler, and all the lesser
lights who then laid, through blind observance,
guileless conjecture, and dilligent math
paths to transform heavenly wisdom
first to mere magic, robbed of all logic,
then to a con: signs without planets
houses abandoned, destiny's arrows
now a mere paycheck, as fits the guest's mood.
by every passage through the ecliptic,
so did the stars by their aureola
fashion the psyche, or so went the laws
held with conviction even by Newton,
likewise the birthright of Galileo,
Kopernik, Kepler, and all the lesser
lights who then laid, through blind observance,
guileless conjecture, and dilligent math
paths to transform heavenly wisdom
first to mere magic, robbed of all logic,
then to a con: signs without planets
houses abandoned, destiny's arrows
now a mere paycheck, as fits the guest's mood.