Image: NASA:Artists impression
of Kepler 10b - a 'parched earth' type planet.
With the successful launch of the James Webb telescope which will speed up the identification of planets around other suns (stars) it felt a good moment to re-post an earlier one of my poems, and retitle it to celebrate the new information which will soon begin to flow
Of Angels and Exoplanets.
Do angel wings pulse through the air of another planet
in the arms of a galaxy light years from here?
Does the breath of such messengers summon and challenge
creatures who think, but who most strange, appear?
IF wings pulse and breath stirs unknown beings to listen,
prepared to respond to their Maker’s desire,
that message will ring out with love, truth, and wisdom,
and on that far world, peace and justice inspire.