John Daleiden,
US
Flying High
super moon
—*
a giant lights up
the horizon
ISS** orbiting earth—
circle of distinguished friends
a paper airplane
glides through the cherry blossoms—
Twilight of the Gods***
Notes: No.
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Author
Notes:
Supermoon*: On May 5, 2012 the
biggest and brightest full moon of 2012 arrived; the moon
was about 221,802 miles from Earth. That's about 15,300
miles closer than average (Supermoon).
According to NASA
the perigee full moon on May 5, 2012 was as much as 14
percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than other full moons
of 2012 (NASA).
ISS**: The International Space Station orbits earth
15.7 times per day (Wikipedia).
Twilight of the Gods***:
Götterdämmerung
(Twilight
of the Gods) is the last in
Richard Wagner's
cycle of four
operas titled
Der Ring des Nibelungen
(The Ring of the Nibelung, or The Ring
for short). It received its premiere at the
Bayreuth Festspielhaus
on 17 August 1876, as part of the first complete performance
of the Ring. The title is a translation into
German of the
Old Norse phrase
Ragnarök,
which in
Norse mythology
refers to a prophesied war of the gods that brings about the
end of the world.
However, as with the rest of the Ring,
Wagner's account of this
apocalypse
diverges significantly from his Old Norse sources. The term
Götterdämmerung
is occasionally used in English, referring to a disastrous
conclusion of events (Wikipedia).
