Sol Sans Son Seulement Lumiere
In the U.S. it was billed as
celestial century event
An Earth servient Moon seeking with
shadows to the rays of the Sun prevent
For the first time in almost one hundred
years
From the East to the West across
this land
In a thick almost 100 mile wide band
Rays of the Sun would totally disappear
And outside that a decreasing
reduction would appear
For those heading to the total disappearing
zone
Only a fear that fog, rain or cloud
cover would find a new home
Would this solar event be like the
100 dollar pay for view heavyweight fight
Be a weather first punch first round
TKO despite all the pre bout hype?
Salem Airport may not be like Nova
Scotia immortalized in a Carly Simon song
But today the private jets like a
steady of spawning salmon were coming on strong
Dozens of viewers and cars filing
the airport lot with eclipse glasses worn
Watching for over an hour in the
early hours of a sunny morn
Starting from the one o’clock
position chips of yellow turning black
A body puncher whose punches the Sun
could not avoid or turn back
Slowly but surely the Moon’s shadows
continued to prevail
The orb shrinking to a slimmer and
slimmer crescent as the lunar shadows nailed
Finally the Sun was beaten into
submission with only a corona as a vestigial trace
Dark skies and chilling temperatures
now confronting a viewer’s face
For almost two minutes the shadows ruled
but could not hold
Then almost in an instant shafts of
visible rays of gold
Slowly but surely the shadows began
to retreat
After tasting a brief victory once
again the Moon shadows tasted total defeat
After an hour looking up into the
skies a shrinking to lost Sun must have been only a bad dream
Save for the reality of those
viewers returning on the 5 to Portland in a creeping stuck in traffic stream
Stuck in traffic for three hours is
a bargain price to pay
To see live a total solar eclipse on
display
© April 24, 2017, Michael P. Ridley
aka the Alaskanpoet
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