“One small note for view anthological;
Five lines citing gaze cosmological.
A sight awe-inspiring;
Synapses rewiring.
Remembrance is e’er astronomical.”
The 9 April 2024 Twitter limerick provided a brief postscript to the events of 8 April 2024’s “Eclipse Day,” as routine fully re-emerged for the area.
“One small note for view anthological; /
Five lines citing gaze cosmological.”
Many others celebrated the 8 April 2024 total solar eclipse quite eloquently, via many media.
My contribution of the five lines of a limerick to the general “view anthological” is rather inconsequential, but it was good to have the established NaPoWriMo 2024 routine with which to reflect on the “gaze cosmological,” even briefly.
“A sight awe-inspiring; /
Synapses rewiring…”
It is likely that the April 2024 afternoon might be a once-in-a-lifetime sight for me, without significant travel to other areas of totality in the future. Certainly, though, it was the first time I’d seen a true total eclipse, and as a brand-new observation, the moment was awe-inspiring and inspirational.
“Remembrance is e’er astronomical.”
I generally am wary of using disciplinary STEM terms I don’t know as well as chemistry-specific vocabulary, in these poems. However, between the eclipse itself and the fact that it had certainly been a big day for the area, it seemed fair to consider the previous afternoon as “astronomical,” in multiple senses of the word.
Chemphasis 