A Special Performance
by
The International Space Station
Friday 13th June 2014.
Slowly you stole upon
the stage.
not even the faintest
breath betrayed
your steady progress
across that vast
familiar set.
The greatest
floodlight of them all
picked you out, once
more to enthral
a widespread audience,
who gazed as one – though
few had met.
Yes! That performance
stays in mind,
the night you almost
crept behind
your partner in a
fluent and spectacular
tryst.
As you departed from
our view,
kissing goodbye to the Strawberry Moon:
we stood to applaud
our orbiting, glittering, bravura artistes.
One month and one day ago: it was undoubtedly a special evening, a beautifully clear sky over Suffolk UK where we were spending a family weekend. We went out and watched for the ISS to appear in the west, watched it make its way across 'our' patch of sky, then disappear a little to the north of the gloriously hued Strawberry Moon (Called the Honey Moon in the UK), massive behind some trees. An amazing performance made possible by two of the great gifts of God - knowledge and nature.
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