Want to learn more about Franklin’s Voyage to find the Northwest Passage and the fate of his ship? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/12/hms-terror-wreck-found-arctic-nearly-170-years-northwest-passage-attempt
Tag Archives: Northern Lights
AURORA BOREALIS
AURORA BOREALIS
The have found Franklin’s ship
a hundred years frozen in ice
Franklin and Franklin’s men
cold, hungry and can-lead crazy
blinded by the glare and the glory
Maybe this is how
we should paint the ceilings of the dying
SEPTEMBER 1986
SEPTEMBER 1986
I’d love to share my southern friends
the northern lights tonight
as they shimmer and they flow
in a dance of pure delight
A thousand miles of motion
at a hundred miles a minute
with every color of the rainbow
shading in and out within it
A rainbow just above my head
but a rainbow now set free
where greens, and blues, and pinks
can each take a solo spree
Then melt into the whole again
and softly fading fly
to white light and to rest
against a moonlit sky
While I in love’s sweet afterglow
wish all my loves this love could know