Saturday Haiku: Moon and Stars

[In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first manned lunar landing (July 20, 1969), I am re-posting this haiku which speaks to our age-old fascination with the moon ~ CK]

Moon and stars at night

call the soul to distant planes,

inward and outward.

                    

                                                 ~ CK

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Photo: "This view shows the thin crescent Moon setting over ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. As well as the bright crescent the rest of the disc of the Moon can be faintly seen. This phenomenon is called earthshine. It is due to sunlight reflecting off the Earth and illuminating the lunar surface. By observing earthshine astronomers can study the properties of light reflected from Earth as if it were an exoplanet and search for signs of life. This picture was taken on 27 October 2011 and also records the planets Mercury and Venus." (European Southern Observatory)

Credit: Babak Tafreshi at http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1210a/
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons



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