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Astronomy - Any of five points, stable with respect to gravitational forces and in the orbital plane of two bodies, one of which is much larger than the other. A third, smaller body placed at one of these points will remain in equilibrium with respect to the other two bodies.
Amidst the churches and farms
a country highway stretched on forever
beneath a sky of hammered pewter
past trees of gilded dust and bronze
Car and driver weightless over distance
the tug of one gravity lessens before another,
somewhere between silver river and green rows
a heart fell into equilibrium far from both
What is this gravity called love? he sighed,
the crows had no reply, from their weathered perch,
except to flutter wings of feathered ebony,
bidding adieu to this least of three bodies
a country highway stretched on forever
beneath a sky of hammered pewter
past trees of gilded dust and bronze
Car and driver weightless over distance
the tug of one gravity lessens before another,
somewhere between silver river and green rows
a heart fell into equilibrium far from both
What is this gravity called love? he sighed,
the crows had no reply, from their weathered perch,
except to flutter wings of feathered ebony,
bidding adieu to this least of three bodies
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beautiful...sounds like a drive across PA :)
ReplyDeleteMy sky is hammered pewter this morning.
ReplyDeleteMy head is continually hammering pewter. Nice poem though.
ReplyDeletesigh.
ReplyDeletelovely.
This is one of my favorites so far.
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