Astronomers once wrote about what they could see, <br />but now explore the regions where there is no light, <br />like poets challenged by invisibility, <br />who relish deepest dark defining total night. <br />In the region where no light can penetrate, <br />beyond the radiations of opaque effulgence, <br />lies darkness that these astral poets navigate, <br />divining in the dark what once defied divulgence. <br />Astronomers today have tools that don’t depend <br />on wavelengths of the light which eyes must use to spy, <br />but with new instruments they see beyond the end <br />of outer space, whose godlike stars they magnify. <br />The only tool a star-struck poet has is his <br />imagination which at times enables him, <br />not Wunderkind or entertainer from show biz, <br />to scrutinize God’s screen that’s hidden by a scrim.<br /><br />gershon hepner<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/space-poets/
