By Nancy Haskett
Modesto Branch, California
One summer night
over twenty years ago
a once-in-a-lifetime meteorite
streaked across the entire sky
over Yosemite Valley,
creating the illusion of daylight
that lasted for seconds,
lighting up the meadow
and magnificent rock walls in front of us
with celestial resplendence
Almost more memorable
than the spectacle itself
was in that moment afterwards –
hundreds of voices shouted
and echoed around us –
tourists from all over the world,
witnesses to the same event,
all of us united
in a universal language
of amazement
Our recent eclipse allowed us once again to “share the universal language of amazement.”
What an apt description, Nancy! Thank you.
This is a beautiful poem!
Even more amazing in this spring of the solar eclipse…which was eclipsed by the noise of political darkness…national and universal.
A significant poem for now
When we are so separate
Offers us a feeling of connectedness
It’s a poem of a unified earth