Gorgeous images, are they not!

When we go to Scotland for our holiday, we stay at a cottage out in the back of beyond. Coming home from our evening meals we have had many crystal clear nights and the sky above us looks magnificent. It's as if millions of tiny coruscating diamonds have been flung over a sable throw. The Milky Way looks a blaze of light, and many times I have stood there, shivering slightly in a cool breeze at times for perhaps 10 minutes or so, feeling a great sense of awe and wonder, especially with the realization that I am the merest of specks, probably not even a grain of sand, in comparison.

It's also fun to watch out for the bats in the adjacent barn. Even at my age, I can still hear their little clicking noises as they wing over my head.

What beautiful imagery! Have you tried your hand at writing poetry, Karen? If not, you should do!!

Thank you, Alfred. I always did well in English lessons at school, which I put down to being a bookworm since more-or-less the age of seven. I theorize that I learned osmotically from the reading as even now, when it comes to the mechanics of language, I couldn't really tell you much about things like prepositions, clauses and such-like.

However, for some reason, poetry has never been my thing. So I tend to wax lyrical in prose form by preference.

May I please?

Coruscating diamonds over a sable throw
As an Earth-placed metaphor to show
imagery of a view up high
from far beyond Earth's blue sky
Yet photons entangled far away
cause in our minds a bright display
From a time long ago from stars so bright
And yet they travel at the speed of light
So how long for them does the journey take
Until they such a graceful metaphor make

William