The daily star Tuesday issue...

announces Summer Solstice 2023

regarding ray zing planetary earthlings

Wednesday, June twenty first

at 10:57 Ante Meridian

Eastern standard time

will find Earth's North Pole tilted

closest toward sun. This demarcates

most daylight hours of the year for

people living in the northern hemisphere.

Just shy of high noon sun (lil more than

twelve hours from drafting these lines)

nearest star in solar system reaches

highest point in the sky.

Hence hasty intent to beat buzzer sound

dashing off riding figurative one seahorse

open sleigh madly awk cross cyber sea,

aye rudder sally forth (slogging thru

virtual flotsam and jetsam) with poetic

obeisance paid to average size ball of

Earth, wind and fire, my out of this

world quasi stellar benediction, since

Earthlings traveled thru space/time

continuum circa complimenting

summer solstice at Stonehenge

when the sky clear, the sun rises

behind the Heel stone, the ancient entrance

to the circle, and rays of sunlight channelled

into the centre of the monument.

Perchance bajillion years ago, when predecessors

of present day primates (coon sitter terribly

less a bomb bin hubble), versus twenty first

century Homo sapiens predilection for total

mortal kombat graphically spiraling downward

zeroing (kamikaze like), analogy drawn,

viz subjective mathematical roulette curves,

albeit hypotrochoids and epitrochoids staining

countless grains of sand, count them yourself,

yielding result (somewhere very loosely

approximating 7.5 x 1018, or seven quintillion,

five hundred quadrillion grains.

Such minutiae less significant within the realm

of present day Homo sapiens, whose lives less

linkedin with phenomena affecting life on this

oblate spheroid, (which could come to a crashing

halt predicated on burgeoning human population

jeopardizing sustainable planet presuming

industrial paradigm prevails, thence man/

woman kind will unwittingly trumpet, and

or sound claxon (ex post facto), while

warming temperatures melt glaciers,

asper huge popsicles drowning

multitudinous habitats courtesy of

violent meteorologic cataclysms, where

Noah's ark will be big enough to save majority

of creatures, and (wherein no art of the deal)

savvy enough to wall off sky high tidal

Katrina and the waves, then nature will (make

a killing) relishing tidying Atlas sized tureen

if necessary applying pledged finishing touches

repurposing third rock for another species slated

to inherit pseudo tabula rasa after Campbells,

and broth hers detox polluted primordial soup

i.e. once cleansed of poisons, thus...I condense

my Green New Deal spiel!

Midwinter night dream filled

with balm of June solstice rays

lackadaisical and carefree months ideal time

to while away pronounced illuminated days

outdoor sports a favorite choice

occupies athletic population,

which venues witness frequent surge

and spill of overtime plays

another popular milieu

favorable climate awakens

constitutes habitués vacationers visit

ashore popular waterways

beachfront shoreline inundated

by mass exodus of sun worshippers

tidal seaboard awash

along every square inch

human species splashes to keep cool

within ocean and bays.

Six months ago bitter cold

and dark snow filled skies

wrought undeserved vengeance

viewed from these eyes,

who after each and

every major winter storm

donned proper attire

to stay warm outside

while clearing walkway

with shovel in hand

executed repetitive motion

akin to how boater plies

similar (yet reversed)

bodily swing of arms

now readily prepares for execution

of most difficult seasonal task

requires usage of most complex muscle

the source of poetry witty and wise.

Awake to the solar celestial sea chant

mourning regarding species no longer extant

thus upon figurative shoulders of youth

tasked with survival of humanity

a behemoth nearly impossible mission

younger generations unfairly saddled

with obligatory filched grant

courtesy when fossil fuels

broadcast onset of

fourth Industrial Revolutions

spewing paradigm viz

free market capitalist kant

now quashing, thrashing,

wrestling against rant

long fostering Homo sapiens dominance.

Starry-eyed dark matter

of infinite space

espied by countless eons

since original human race

became cognizant of her/

his terrestrial place

gilding the heavens with strings

of pearly hued lace

closer to earth charting

early skywatchers to notice moon face

held captive via gravitational brace

while zodiac archer aims

cocked bow, where knocked feathers

sans arrow complete an awesome

fantastic bullseye ace.

Mother nature’s ornery

primates supreme display

said massive breastworks broadcast inlay

feat of awesome accomplishment

finds yours truly humbled okay

with his feeble limitations

engendering ample rocky tsuris oy vey.

Today June 20th, 2023

after a light rain,

of morning mountain dew

a strand of pearls clung

to slender tree limbs

bejeweled woody flora prismatic orbs

tell tale sign recent cloudburst

cleft darkened heavens

rained watery life source liquid

downpour laced branched canopy

awash with molecular droplets

requisite to buzzfeed

burlesque Vaudeville bluster

exquisite gala performance unrehearsed

unscripted ubiquitous theatrical performance

received limitless encores

toward Gaia screenwriter

whose infinite scope

(wrought upon natural landscape palette)

exceeds the finite abilities

of those bipedal dominatrix

human organisms imbued

whose dilettante debut

(dawned these last seconds

on the clock face of geologic history)

might witness curtain call

on their final act.