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Seventeen seventy-four is
when William Herschel noted his
strange discovery with the cry,
‘Truly a hole is in the sky! '
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Oh behind the mirror of so called space....is where you left me guessing, I thought there was no such thing as truly empty space....maybe it’s just the backside of another mirror facing the opposite direction? ....oh well, a super great poem, just brilliant...I truly loved it! ! !
Yes, I think we are all left guessing about it. I agree with you that there must be something undiscovered there, which is one of the reasons I wanted to end with Walt Whitman’s sense of wonder. And I truly appreciate your enthusiastic response and having you for a reader! Thank you! (More below…)
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8/4/2025 9:51:01 PM # 1.0.0
In such a long poem, sometimes things escape me, like using 'sky' twice for a rhyme. So I changed a stanza somewhat more than halfway through the poem. The stanza changed is as follows: where beings dwell in woods and trees or fly through skies and swim in seas, albeit dwindling rapidly while humans look on vapidly…