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Question: Do you watch the stars in their voyage through the heavens!?
Thoughts at 2:30 AM

Orion sleeps reclining,
bright Luna holds her
dark half in her arms,
the road is empty
but the convenience store
is bright and waiting
for those of us who
cannot make it through
the night!.

And where is Sirius!?
Has he, too, at last
found sleep!?
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Many have been the nights I have lain on my back in the field and stared into the night sky!. I have identified many constellations and heavenly bodies, but I more enjoyed the fantasies that run through my mind during the watching of these twinkling delights!. I once observed what looked like a star, moving from the southern horizon to straight up overhead, make a 90 degree turn and disappear under the eastern horizon in about 10 minutes!. No idea what it was, airplanes don't move that fast, nor do they usually change course that drastically!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Your meditation has something to say, obliquely, about the enchantment we may have lost in a modern, electrified world of convenience!.!.!. do we stare in rapt wonder at the heavens, or see in the patterning of the night sky, something less mysterious because of our "conveniences," because of civilization!? Incidentally, your words seem to impute the wrong gender to Orion -- "Orion sleeps reclining,/ bright Luna holds HER" -- since Orion was in the mythology a huntsMAN!. An enjoyable enough read!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

(Sorry for this, but!.!.!.!.I read the first line as Onion sleeps reclining - I really must do something about my glasses)

I know who Orion is!.!.!.!.the only constellation I can recognise, apart from the Plough!.!.!.!.but don't know Sirius!.!.!.!.is that another star!?

This is a strange poem!.!.!.perhaps 2!.30 am poems always are!.
There is a mystical unreal feel to the first few lines!.!.!.!.and then suddenly you are pulled into the mundane and ordinary, and then back to the heavens again!.
Does that work for me!?!.!.!.!.in a strange way it does!. I tend to lean towards 'reality' poems and if I were to take out those lines, this poem wouldn't impact on me in quite the way it does!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I caught the "dark half" although it is a little enigmatic!. Most of my thoughts at 2:30 a!.m!. are the chaotic dreams I suffer from time to time!. I cannot imagine them sleepless, the things of damned divinity that course through your mind as you watch the night sky eclipsing reality!. So I send peace, and Hypnos' song to you!. Bless you, Elaine!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I love star gazing I do not know all the constellations,,,,,
i could stare up there for hours ,,,Sort of day dreaming
There are times when I wish I could sleep And like you said ,,,,Orion ( onion ),,,Sleeps reclining,,,I Wish,,, I Wish,,,,,,,,Very nice ,,,,A picture out of my scrapbookWww@QuestionHome@Com

An insomniac musing on the way to 7-11!? Sirius is the brightest star in the Northern sky in the summer, maybe he is deciding to nap on the first day of fall!. Your musings are poetry!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Star gazing in a city is gazing with fantasy!. City lights really hinder the true magnificence!. Insomnia does call and dreaming as driving to the c store is not bad as long as your eyes occasionally come back to the road! lolWww@QuestionHome@Com

I love to watch the stars in the heavens but alas Galileo messed them all stars (mythologies)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I'm a sucker for these types of poems, and I particularly enjoyed this one!. Thanks for sharing!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Yes I have observed the stars, some planets and the moon! I once spent an hour or two hours on moon visible nights for 6 months looking through a telescope just at the moon!. I kept a journal where I drew all the features of the moon that I could see as the moon changed aspect and phase!. I related it to lunar photos and maps going back to Galileo!. I related it to the 6 Apollo missions that landed on the moon between 1969 & 1972( see ---> http://www!.panoramas!.dk/moon/mission-apo!.!.!. ) !.
Studying and then finding as many of the 88 constellations as I could see using binoculars was also alot of fun!.

"Sirius is also known colloquially as the "Dog Star", reflecting its prominence in its constellation, Canis Major (English: Big Dog)!.[17] It is the subject of more myth and folklore than any other star apart from the sun!. The heliacal rising of Sirius marked the flooding of the Nile in Ancient Egypt and the 'Dog Days' of summer for the Ancient Greeks, while to the Polynesians it marked winter and was an important star for navigation around the Pacific Ocean!."
ref: excerpt from the entry ----> http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Sirius

more:"Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky with a visual apparent magnitude of ?1!.47, almost twice as bright as Canopus, the next brightest star!. Pronounced /?s??i?s/,[15] the name Sirius is derived from the Ancient Greek Σε?ριο?!.[16] The star has the Bayer designation α Canis Majoris (α CMa, or Alpha Canis Majoris)!. What the naked eye perceives as a single star is actually a binary star system, consisting of a white main sequence star of spectral type A1V, termed Sirius A, and a faint white dwarf companion of spectral type DA2, termed Sirius B!.

Sirius is bright due to both its intrinsic luminosity and its closeness to the Sun!."Www@QuestionHome@Com