gershon hepner - space poets

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

gershon hepner

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