This, my friends, was the school assignment that started it all! My teacher wanted me to submit it to the school literary magazine, and most of the class loved it, so I decided to try my hands at some others.
My goal here was to try and write something as "Shakespeare would say it". To take something as mysterious and eerie as the sky in the 15-1600's and make a Sonnet outta it!
Alrighty then, here it is!
To an Astronomer's Wife
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That eternal blanket transfix me so:
Tiny white islands in a sea of black
I the observing mortal set so low
If I to drown in there shall I float back?
And that unpaintable daytime at blue
Cloud-like vessels sailing unperturbed
A most luminous skyward ocean true:
Wild waves crash up beyond hand and head.
And yet the rain the heavens pouring forth
Pure drops to obliterate worldly mars
As if Heaven himself wished to scourge earth,
And rid his wife of man's terrible scars.
Yes, there is very much unknown above,
But they are but nothing to you, my love.
(Insert your own witty comment here, 'cause I'm fresh outta them. Ya dig?)