I grew up a city <br />A city within Detroit city <br />I grew up a street <br />Which was called Charest <br />Across my house was the Hamtramck Junior High School named after Copernicus <br />I was taught, from a very early age, that Copernicus was father of 'modern' astronomy. <br />(For after all he was Polish) <br />Not Galileo but him. <br />He was berated by the Roman Catholic Church <br />for insinuating that the we don't live in a geo-centric solar system <br />Let alone a geo-centric universe <br />(After all we say 'sunrise' and 'sundown' even till today.) <br />Copernicus had envisioned rotation of planets, <br />the orbital path they take <br />Around the sun, <br />There is no sunrise or sunset, <br />--and Copernicus was right on! <br />He did this without a telescope. <br />And what's worse, <br />Alas, he was considered a heretic by the pope <br />-and died and was buried in paupers grave. <br />Lately, the Vatican has reconsidered it's admonition and rebuking of the truth, <br />(God is truth and truth is God, in essence the Church rebuked God) <br />Copernicus and Galileo have been justified <br />The church was wrong! <br />Flat Earth Society WHO? <br />There is an apparent horizon <br />There is no defining mark named horizon on globe <br />The earth is round. <br /> <br />Anyway back to Copernicus, after being nearly half of a millennia, <br />He is finely going to have a proper burial including honors and headstone. <br />It's too bad that in the city which had featured his namesake 20th century school-- <br />His named was covered by signs which gave the new name of campus, <br />-it had been changed to Hamtramck High School. <br /> <br />5-26-10<br /><br />Joe Rosochacki<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/copernicus-2/
