Not to harp on the birthday theme, but it just so happens that quite a few great people were born in February. I was disappointed to note that one of my favorite daily poem offerers, Garrison Keillor, did not mention that today is the birthday of Nicholas Copernicus. This is the astronomer who truly ushered in a new era in terms of the way we view our planet and galaxy and those other galaxies far, far away. With his revolutionary ideas (published in the 1540's) I think he deserves a little poetry shout-out. What I admire so much about Nick's ideas is that it ushered in a brand new way of research and of thinking about science in general. And what I love about Copernicus today is the idea of his budding ideas and how wonderful it feels to understand something, to feel something and know something. For me, I love how great it felt to write this poem in his honor.
Realignment
by Nicole Speulda
Nicholas Copernicus, son of my soul,
a man alone you believed
in astronomical order.
Thanks to you my mood is tuned
too much toward the weather.
That life does not revolve
around you or me or a we
or the ego of human beings
rather a shining sun of burning gas
was true Renaissance thinking.
Questioning the past,
inquiring the future
questioning the future,
wearing our past:
The scientific method.
Life’s evolutions are those of stars;
we wake and sleep, burn and fade,
we rotate and constantly change,
and maybe, for a moment we reach a place
of beautiful endurance,
a place in time on this orb that is ours
that is happiness, by happenstance.
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